What should be the number one priority for the Democratic party?

[southern democrat]

[leftofthedial]

1. repeal Patriot Act

withdraw from Iraq as quickly as possible

[LearnedHand]

4. Immediately followed by...

...repealing the Bush* tax cuts! Fer gawd's sake, get this country back out of the quagmire.

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

2. Getting * out of office

[liberalmuse]

6. You're right about that!

First and foremost, we need to concentrate on getting Bush and his thugs out of the White House. Then we need to get the thugs out of the House and the Senate. I'm not talking all Republicans, just the ones like Frist, Santorum, DeLay and Lott.

[Donna Zen]

3. Restoring America

[phiddle]

5. Voter verified voting, then

campaign finance reform

[TakebackAmerica]

7. Global Warming

This is a threat to the future of humanity.
The melting polar ice caps will flood countries across the world.

It also is heating up the permafrost in Alaska which contain 1/9 of the world's carbon dioxide.

This is already causing havoc on the normal weather patterns.

I think 1999 was the warmest year on record.
Here in Oregon we haven't had a cold winter in 3 years.

This also is a weak spot for the GOP.
Considering that they are beholden to the oil and gas industry and Detroit's Big Three.

Republicans are defense less on this issue. There only shield came from Frank Luntz who advises republicans to denie Global Warming.

Dems can keep hittin' the GOP all day on this and they can't do anything about it.

This is the issue we can ride to success in '04

[FlashHarry]

8. Retaking the Senate and/or House.

I'd rather have Congress than the WH, if it came down to a choice. Personally, I think we've got a good shot at gaining the WH and the Senate in '04. The House, however, may take a while longer.

[zeemike]

9. The goal now

Should be a fair election in 04. And that will have to be watching the polls very closely on Election Day and insisting on a way to verify the results of any BBV.
Don’t expect the media to tell you of election irregularities cause that isn’t going to happen.
After the election with a democratic president it may be possible to do some basic things that will start a course correction of the ship of state. I myself would like to see a New Constitutional Convention that would decide on divisive questions like abortion and make changes to the law or the constitution to settle it once and for all. (Don’t give me that look it might be easier than you think)

[southern democrat]

10. What about the Democratic party

making a commitment to do extensive exit polling to compare actual election results to exit polls?

[zeemike]

12. That sounds like a good idea

And perhaps more poll watchers inside as well.

[Unforgiven]

11. Paper Ballots

Without counted and verified votes, What else matters.........................?

[ModerateMiddle]

13. equality of opportunity for all (nm)

[pansypoo53219]

14. stopping Bush

and undoing everything that shit hole has done.
NO MORE JUDGES.