How are we shaping up?

[CrackpotAmerica]

I am curious how everyone thinks we are doing.

Honestly, my opinion on a good day is that we will win back Congress in its entirety. However, my worst day makes me nervous about losing both.

I am not privileged to have a firm grasp on what the mainstream is thinking as they are bombarded with falsehoods from almost every news outlet. Now, CNN seems to have let go of its last thread of objectivity.


So here's the question:

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Do you think that the Democrats are on the right track to win back the Congress in November, 2006?


If you have the time, please explain your decision.
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I appreciate your participation.

Thx!

AGG

[CrackpotAmerica]

1. Not looking so hot, is it?

What can we do to better ensure some form of victory over the next few months?

[EFerrari]

4. Visit the Election reform forum. Let's get our votes counted.

We are actually scoring wins all over the country. The Washington Post finally printed two major stories on consequtive days. But, there's still a LOT to do.

:hi:

[Selatius]

7. Voter verified paper trail for electronic voting devices n/t

There can be no democracy without transparency.

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

- Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator

[PWRinNY]

2. I say we win back both

Believe it. Work for it. Will it into existence. Pray for it. MAKE it happen. I won't believe any other way.

[CrackpotAmerica]

5. I feel the same way..

But my fear of suffering the consequences of losing can be unbearable..

[PWRinNY]

8. Can't let fear control us :-)

That's what the repubs want - for us to bow to fear. We can't be a slave to the fear they sell. KNOW it - we ARE the majority. :)

[CrackpotAmerica]

9. Yea, I know.. But the first step to overcoming fear is to face it! NT

[PWRinNY]

10. Head on!

That's how I know THEY'RE the scared selfish little mean people. They have to cheat and lie to win. We just have to work for it.

[Selatius]

11. You have to address the problem of electronic voting...

You can't just "believe it," "pray for it," or "will it," into existence. You have to "work for it," but that requires that you first address the foundation of any representative form of government: Voting. Without that, you are simply building a house on a cracked foundation.

[PWRinNY]

14. Right

I said that. It's going to be hard work, for sure. But when has any Dem been afraid of a little hard work? Unlike whiny chimpass "but it's hard work" shrubby, lol. We KNOW how to work.

[rockymountaindem]

3. I honestly don't think we can take back either chamber

I feel like we are currently too far behind and at a disadvantage due to the favoritism the voters show incumbents and because of gerrymandering as far as the House is concerned. I do, however, feel that we will make at least small gains, and possibly some significant ones which will put is in striking distance in 2008, particularly since that year the Republicans will have more Senators up for relection than we will.

With that in mind, and since I live in one of the safest Repub. districts in America, I will be directing my efforts to electing a Democratic Governor of Colorado and retaining our majority in both houses of the legislature (again, I don't know what I can really do about that since my districts are so heavily Repub.) A vote for a Dem. Gov in El Paso county is as good as one from any part of the state though! Gotta help Denver, Boulder, Pueblo, the SW and the I-70 corridor!

[EFerrari]

6. What system do you vote on? n/t

[rockymountaindem]

13. So far I've only voted absentee in the one election since I turned 18

But my parents say it's optical scan, I believe.

[EFerrari]

15. Better than touch screen but they can still mess with

the tabulators.

[CrackpotAmerica]

12. I am hopeful that Mr. Fitzgerald returns with some new indictments....

in April.

Next: I hope he says that he is forced to keep the investigation open yet again (even though I feel bad for him for being away from home for so long.)

I think that that would be the thing that conservative voters could grasp onto, making them realize that their party is corrupted and needs to be removed.

[BlueIris]

17. Ah, Fitz. May the gods watch over that man.

:-)

[FloridaPat]

16. The only thing that counts is from Sept to election day. Nothing

else is worth worrying about. * is going to pull some stunt after his vacation, so we just need to get ready for anything.

[leftofthedial]

18. I think the repukes have been cutting their own throats

and the Dems have done the least possible to capitalize on it, In fact, the net efforts of Dems to take advantage of scandal corruption lies and crimes by the repukes have allowed the repukes to save face, confuse the facts, mischaracterize their crimes and rally their base in the face of their problems.

The Dems have done zip nada nothing to end voting machine corruption. What little progress has been made was in spite of Dems, not because of them. Therefore, with Diebold still determining much of the outcome of elections, the Dems may gain stlightly in 2006 and 2008, but nowhere near enough or as much as they should have.

[EFerrari]

19. Ouch. n/t

[Greyhound]

20. Not sure at the moment and speculating before Sept. '06 is

pointless at best. I'm not very optimistic at this point due to the multitude of problems facing our broken political system. With voting machines blatantly rigged and gerrymandering and let us not forget the prodigious ignorance of the sheeple, I won't be surprised to see a new record set fro incumbent retention.

[CrackpotAmerica]

21. Thanks, everyone, for participating. NT