Reply #21: I don't think the issue galvanizes voters [View All]

[TayTay]

I think it is an issue for people who read blogs and lib publications. I also think that it is a sort of depressing litmus test that everyone has to pass.

We are not going to be able to effect change on this issue with this Congress. (We don't even have the Democrats on it.) We can nationalize the issue, but only on the basis of it being an issue of basic fairness. The rest has to be fought in the individual states and in the courts. (Those are both long-term processes that could take years to produce results.) I don't think there is anything that the national Dems can really do except find a better way to point at the problem and then support the outside groups that are paying for the lawsuits and such. (Then internalize the issue as a Democratic issue based on the inherent issue of fairness.)

I think fraud happened. I don't think it should be in every argument about what happened in 2004. Dems have work to do that doesn't involve fraud. We need to do better.