Reply #6: Is it a strategy [View All]

[telamachus]

to vote for a local (city, county, state) democrat if they, for various reasons, are not the best choice. It seems that the strategy you suggest assumes that all democrats are mindless partisans.

The strategy for the democrats should be to develop a base that will bring in the largest number of voters. I have seen many post on DU that would suggest that the democratic party is only the party of the pro choice, anti religion, and gun control crowd. Recent postings on this supposedly inclusive progressive board has really turned me off and many others that I know. I have stayed with it because in the end I hope that democrats can develop a broader base without alienating those who probably are more democrats than republicans.

This is why I ask 'what is a democrat' or better yet 'who are we and what do we truly all agree on'?