Election season is in full sway. The robo-calls and phony surveys are constant. As a registered Democrat, I get lots and lots of automated calls, usually just as I have sat down for dinner or become absorbed in a favorite TV show. The week before the Primary was very heavy.
The television ads range the usual mix of down home, love my family and community feel-good spots to the mysterious Over 60 group's attack on my congressman for "following Nancy Pelosi's agenda". This one even trumps the Paladino and Cuomo ads on the nasty meter.
The Democratic Party is holding onto my membership by a thread, largely because the Republicant Party has veered so far to the right and steadfastly clung to its failed policies of the past decade, I quite simply cannot go there.
So how does the party to which I have belonged all my adult life seek my vote?
Vice President Biden tells me to "stop whining." President Obama stands behind his podium wagging his finger at me and telling me the election is too important for me not to vote, no matter how unhappy I am with the limitations and shortfalls of the party's achievements since his election.
When all else fails, attack your base? Are these guys TRYING to lose their Congressional majority?
Perhaps, as Thomas Friedman suggests in his op-ed piece in today's New York Times, there is another way. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&hp
Here's what I think...
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