Journal ACK!!'s Journal: How can a Progressive win in the South 1
Listen I have lived in the South my whole life. Dems lose by closer margins in the South than in many other Republican dominated areas.
So, how can a Progressive Dem politico win in the South. Do some research about the governor race in LA and look at Mark Warner and then think about these points.
Listen you admit you are for a woman's right to choose and then shut up. The fundies will not vote for you anyway.
You are for hunters. Half of your PR photos in the South be you with a shotgun in your hand beside a nascar racing car.
Pump up the volume on tax credits for the working poor and closing loopholes for those rich folks who don't want to pay their taxes.
You talk about conserving nature for future generations of kids to enjoy. Talk about keeping the water clean to fish in and places for people to hunt.
Talk about connecting people to jobs. Getting folks off of welfare and into the workforce in a real way, a compassionate way. Dumping folks with no hope just makes no sense.
Talk about targetting education spending to those rural schools that have been left out and unfunded for too long.
Talk about small business initiatives and getting tough with corporations that want to run rough-shod over the small towns.
Talk about helping out family farmers with loans and subsidies to protect them because all the foreign farmers are protected the same way.
Talk about fiscal responsibilty and the need for the government to pay its bills and not borrow and spend its way into debt.
Wrap yourself up in the Bill of Rights and talk about getting government out of their personal lives.
You wrap progressive politics around a populist voice.
If you want examples look up Mike Warner's campaign in VA. He aimed his message at the people and in a Repuke dominated state came up tops.
Hallelujah (Score:2)
Cheers,
Ethelred