Yes We Can! Long Island 2012Last nights loss in another election viewed as a “sure thing” by Democratic Party intelligentsia, and will be the last wake up call the Party will get to adapt if they want to remain in power. This piece by Mark Green from Air America Radio outlines some suggestions the party can take to avoid continuing down the same path of “unexpected defeat.”
As Republican strategist Lee Atwater famously put it, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” — in other words, the best defense is a good offensive. Since the rhetoric of the Right has always sounded appealing — for faith and flag, against big fat government — Democratic candidates need to change the narrative to future-past and up-down rather than stale left-right. With Democrats in charge during an awful economy, abstract ideological arguments or standing pat are not enough to convince swing independent voters.
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