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I’ve been tracking what Dean is doing behind the scenes at DNC and I’m very happy with what I see.
The “Fighting Dems” campaign is a good step. People coming back from Iraq are running as Democrats saying, “I was there. Bush I wrong. Vote for me.” It’s a very powerful message. It also dispels the “Dems are wimps” meme.
I feel that the “Dems are just as bad as Repubs” is going to be a problem until we get the corporate money out of the DNC and replace it with people’s money. The “Democracy Bonds” program will go a long way to doing that. The program encourages people, normal, regular people, to donate donate $10/month. That much money will easily replace all the corporate money that the Dems get, and its a simple matter of skipping Starbucks every other week. Once we reach the tipping point (more people-money than corporate-money), you’ll see the DNC message really change. Once we get to +80% ... watch out!
Did you know that a year ago there were 0 paid DNC operatives outside of D.C.? There are now nearly 100 (two per state). Now each state party has 2 people on the DNC payroll, so they are accountable to a national agenda instead of local payola and scams. They receive intense training from the DNC. Oh, and they’re already starting to turn around many lackluster state parties.
Did you know that soon there will be 2,000 volunteer DNC operatives around the country using the power of social events (regular social events) to draw in people? This will increase the pool of people that are encouraged to run for local office, which leads to people running for bigger offices.
Traditionally the Dems don’t run against a Republican that can’t possibly lose. Now they are running a Dem in every House seat because it turns out that (1) doing so forces the Republican to fundraise, which drains money from all the surrounding campaigns (making the Dems more likely to win there), (2) sometimes the entrenched Repulican loses (especially when being forced to run a real campaign reveals that the person doesn’t have a leg to stand on), (3) sometimes the entrenched Republican loses because a scandal happens that the Dems can seize upon (all too often Republicans get out of a scandal scott-free because there was no Dem challenger standing in the wings ready to take advantage of the opportunity.)
The “Fighting Dems” campaign is a good step. People coming back from Iraq are running as Democrats saying, “I was there. Bush I wrong. Vote for me.” It’s a very powerful message. It also dispels the “Dems are wimps” meme.
I feel that the “Dems are just as bad as Repubs” is going to be a problem until we get the corporate money out of the DNC and replace it with people’s money. The “Democracy Bonds” program will go a long way to doing that. The program encourages people, normal, regular people, to donate donate $10/month. That much money will easily replace all the corporate money that the Dems get, and its a simple matter of skipping Starbucks every other week. Once we reach the tipping point (more people-money than corporate-money), you’ll see the DNC message really change. Once we get to +80% ... watch out!
Did you know that a year ago there were 0 paid DNC operatives outside of D.C.? There are now nearly 100 (two per state). Now each state party has 2 people on the DNC payroll, so they are accountable to a national agenda instead of local payola and scams. They receive intense training from the DNC. Oh, and they’re already starting to turn around many lackluster state parties.
Did you know that soon there will be 2,000 volunteer DNC operatives around the country using the power of social events (regular social events) to draw in people? This will increase the pool of people that are encouraged to run for local office, which leads to people running for bigger offices.
Traditionally the Dems don’t run against a Republican that can’t possibly lose. Now they are running a Dem in every House seat because it turns out that (1) doing so forces the Republican to fundraise, which drains money from all the surrounding campaigns (making the Dems more likely to win there), (2) sometimes the entrenched Repulican loses (especially when being forced to run a real campaign reveals that the person doesn’t have a leg to stand on), (3) sometimes the entrenched Republican loses because a scandal happens that the Dems can seize upon (all too often Republicans get out of a scandal scott-free because there was no Dem challenger standing in the wings ready to take advantage of the opportunity.)