Reply #10: I think we desperately need to keep this issue alive, because... [View All]

[newswolf56]

(apart from Dean and maybe John Edwards), all the likely candidates seem prone to repeat the errors of 2000 and 2004 -- errors that allowed the GOPorkers to garner votes that otherwise would have given us an (incorruptible) victory. And I believe you're absolutely correct the West is the key area -- that and the upper (northern) Middle West. (Ironically, though I believe Edwards is developing precisely the proletarians-versus-plutocrats economic analysis we need to win, I would regard most of the South {with its overwhelmingly Bible-thump/Christofascist/closet-racist majority}, as a total write-off.)