What if we elect a Democrat to the White House? [View All]

[Kenneth ken]

How effective can he or she be against a Republican House and Senate?
It's time to start thinking beyond Presidential politics; not dispense with tham, but expanding our sights.

I think meetups should be looking within their group and finding candidates to run for national offices.

There are 435 open seats for the US House. There are about 33 seats in the Senate up for election. I do not think the Democratic Party leadership will choose to contest them all.

I think each meetup should find a candidate to run for office (in some areas maybe the Dems will field a good candidate, so those may not need to come from the meetups.) and then reach out to other candidates' meetups in their area and come to an agreement that they will support the candidate who wins the nomination. There are numerous Dems in office who appear to be more DINO than Dem, let a grass roots Dem replace them, as well as replacing a Repub.

So, as an example, the Kucinich meetup in Hoboken NJ finds a person to run for the house seat in that district; reaches out to the Dean meetup in Hoboken NJ, which has also determiined who they want to run for the house seat in that district, etc. for each candidate’s meetup group in Hoboken NJ.

Then, when a Presidential candidate is nominated, say Carol Moseley-Braun, the various meetups in Hoboken all get behind the person who was chosen from the CMB meetup and help to get that person elected.

The campaign strategy is easy. CMB is running for President, and I am running for the House seat in district ## for one reason only - to help get her agenda passed into law. If you like CMB, vote for her, and also vote for me!. *

Same in the Senate races.

Think about what Congress would look like with say 300 freshman Representatives all focused on pushing through the President’s agenda. 300 would be able to determine the Speaker of the House, all the committee chairs, drive the legislative agenda, and have no problem pushing through their legislation, free of unwanted pork.

20 Freshman senators would have a tougher time of it, but there would be 33 or so Senators knowing they faced re-election in 2 years, and spending a lot of time thinking how much they could oppose the House/White House agenda.

I posted something similar to this in a thread that was started in GD, but that died with little response, so I’ll try it here. This thread WILL have at least 50 responses, or be locked. I will continue to kick it at least once a day until that happens.

So, good idea? Am I full of $h!t? Tell me, tell me, but do not simply ignore me.



* - feel free to change candidate names in any portion of the above where you dislike the candidate named. The underlying idea still applies.

:bounce:anyway, that's my idea, but I don't much care for the DLC nor any of the other so-called party leaders, so DLCer's might not like it.:bounce: