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There is a good chance that Bill Nelson will be defeated in 2006, and that Florida will then have two Republican Senators. THe south is conmpetely lost to the democratic party, and we have to start taking a save the midwest tack, as in November, this area was had a number of states that it would have been possible to win, but l;ost because Democrats failed to stick to getting as much of its base out as possible, and attempted to take away some of Bush's rural base, which turned out to be a major failure, Had Kerry focused on getting out even lareger numbers in the major cities of Ohio, andfew other states, he could have won these states easily. Igf Kerry had raised the percentage of Democratic Voters who came out in lets say Cleveland, CIncinati, Columbus and Toledo, by as little as 2 percent, he could have won Ohio by a hunred thousand votes, but his campaign spent too much time trying to get voters in rural Ohio to come out for him. Cosidering that 77 percent of the population of Ohio lives in these cities, a small raise in percentages there cwould have had a greater effect than getting ten percent more of the rural vote. There are similar population ratios in a few other midwestern states like Iowa and Missouri. Kerry was given the strnage advice to try to go after the rural vote, and to fight more for the douthern vote, when his own initial instinct was to try to win the election without the south. Hi advisors steered him wrong on this. He sould have totally focused on the Midwest, as he had little to fear from Bush in theNortheast and the west coast, and the end results of the election proved this. No matter what, whoever runs next, he has to preserve the votes in the midwest, and perhaps focus on the southwest a little more. I say forget the south, keep the base mobilized in the Northast adnwest, adn focus on the midwest and a few Southwestern states with a changing demographic, like New Mexico and Nevada. And Perhaps COlorado, There were a few surprises there. We are not going to get back the south for a long long time, and there is no Democratic Candidate who can get it back, even if they are a southerner.
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