What kind of wedge issues can we use to bring Democrats to the polls?

[Quixote1818]

Anyone have any ideas?

[NVMojo]

1. Book bannings.

[flowomo]

6. really? How so?

Much of the Bush bloc welcomes book banning/censorship

[tedoll78]

2. A few:

1) ballot box paper receipts/trails
2) stem cell research

[whirlygigspin]

no more Dancing or Singing

it's the devil's work, I tell ya.

[rwheeler31]

8. We do not want wedge issues

nt

[no_hypocrisy]

3. That Karl Rove is an unelected co-president and operates as a mad

evil (political) scientist.

Go after Rove, not *. The rest will take care of itself.

[psyntist]

4. Where do you want to place the wedge?

I am fearful of using that same strategy. I do not want perpetuate the same fear and hate that the Theocons have mastered.

[flowomo]

9. wedge issues are not necessarily fear-driven.....

for example, the stem-cell idea mentioned above is an excellent wedge issue because it appeals to personal concerns related to family and friends.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Health care, jobs, minimum wage.

The difference between us and them is that we don't rely on "wedge issues." Our issues are supported by the majority of Americans -- they use the wedge issues to take away that natural advantage.

[flowomo]

13. hey, congrats to your team!

Appreciated them putting a little daylight between the Pats and the Jets. Plus, we Pat fans still like Drew.

[Bleacher Creature]

15. Drew actually looked pretty sharp today.

Should be a good one next week -- although I'm not expecting much from our side.

Take care!

[juliagoolia]

7. after school programs for working parents

you'd think minimum wage wouldn't you?
Or health care?
Or good jobs

Or....outsourcing america
or...

None of these will be as important to people if they pull another moral bullcrap thing on us.

We should push a bill that bans the govt from interfering with marriage in churches all together.
Keep govt out of religious marriage act. Then they'd have to write in legislation that covered civil agreements.. ie, civil unions and church marriages.

[AgadorSparticus]

10. the idea there is only one religion that matters. their intolerance

to other beliefs will shake alot of people into reality. or so i hope. who knows anymore.

[TheFarseer]

11. What did we run on to get control of congress back in the day?

I've been racking my brain trying to think of wedge issues. I wonder if abortion was illegal if that would get people fired up so that abortion would work for us. Maybe if some more schools got shot up, guns could work for us. If the gas crisis got worse maybe it would work for us. That's not really a wedge issue though. I didn't realize gay rights was such a loser issue til this election. All 11 states voted it down by large margins including some blue states! IMO the people have spoken. Whether we like it or not, no gay marriage. This country isn't ready for it. Try again in about 20 years.

[juliagoolia]

12. Freedom of religious marriage act

This would allow any church to perform any marriage, but they only benefits the govt would be allowed to honor would be those that have a license issued by a govt agency, and or a civil contract entered by two people.. civil unions.

If you call it The right to have religious marriages..

Thats akin to the clean air act.or clear skies what ever they call the bush polution plan.

[charlie]

14. Dubya and the GOP

If 4 years of those two running completely off the leash doesn't do it by next election, nothing will. Nothing.

[Joe Momma]

16. republicans..

do not support civil rights for women, blacks, gays, hispanics or any other non-whites.

then again, that will turn out more of the same red staters in droves.

[Randi_Listener]

17. We already had it: The Draft

We can still get young people to the polls with this issue in 2006 to fucking take over Congress.

[nine30]

18. So many..lets see : no longer need to brush your teeth everyday

..free to spit tobacco juice anywhere..education optional from age 9 onwards...

[HEyHEY]

19. Well, it seems like the repubs use the "hate your fellow man" issues

We must look for something of that calibre

[koopie57]

20. I think that the

democrats got out to vote this year; long lines, waiting up to 5 hours to vote, standing up to neocon pricks. Maybe a good issue would be bbv. If nothing is done to change these bbv, maybe we should organize to get people to vote absentee. Rather than only driving them on election day, every day drive a carload down to vote.

[Quixote1818]

21. How about something like bringing back killing of Baby Seals?

That would get me to the polls! We just have to convince some nut republican to put it up on the ballot.

[Carolab]

22. How about

ELECTION FRAUD???

[Quixote1818]

23. YOU NAILED IT!!!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!

[Quixote1818]

24. How about allowing Bush to run for a third term?

[Kurovski]

25. The draft ought to do it

and it will most likely be in place in time to sweep every shite-kiting Repubelickin criminal into the street come the mid-term elections.