Probing for weak spots? Got an interesting machine generated

[rzemanfl]

two question poll on my phone tonight. No indication who was taking the poll. I live in a grossly gerrymandered District (10th) in Florida. Congressman is "Bill" Young (a real asshat). No Democrat is currently going to oppose him in '06. Questions were: Would I vote for a Dem or a Repuke in '06? What kind of a job did I think Young was doing? Anybody know who is doing this polling? I expect it is being done to convince someone to throw their hat in the ring.

[Rick Myers]

1. SOMEBODY better run!!!

No repuke should be unopposed!!!

[rzemanfl]

2. You have that right, but Young's district includes all the barrier

islands with million dollar plus homes and condos, but not the cities of Clearwater and St. Petersburg...those are carved out like big gaping wounds.

[AndyTiedye]

3. But It's FLORIDA!

Yes, some sacrificial lamb should run, but we should be under no illusions about the outcome.

They'll steal it, no matter what. BFEE owns the state.

[Ian David]

4. Yes, but at least they will have to spend money to oppose a candidate. n/t

[snowbear]

5. Jimmy Buffett should run!

:headbang: ~~ ~~ :headbang:

[Ian David]

6. Oh my gawd, he'd win! n/t

[sofa king]

8. Hell, yes.

All politics is local. So let's take it home to the GOP. I guarantee you that locals will be more interested in supporting their own candidate rather than the GOP as a whole, so by contesting elections we force them to blow funds on their base.

And then, the smarmy bastards will try to crank up the laundry machine to filter that cash into the important districts. We'll be waiting, I hope, to expose that.

[Ian David]

7. You have to run TWO candidates- One liberal Dem, and one independent...

You have to run TWO candidates- One liberal Dem, and one independent who is pretending to be a fundie-conservative.

See my related post:

4. How to beat Santorum
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=221&topic_id=12809#12817


The general idea is to register someone as a third-party candidate on an outrageously conservative platform for the purpose of acting as a spoiler to split the reich-wing vote.

*Remember: Alan Keyes carried 30% of Illinois. As Jon Stewart put it, "30% of people in Illinois wear tinfoil hats and diapers."* If an Alan-Keyes imposter ran against Santorum and got even 5% of the vote...


1) Register someone to run in Santorum's district as an independent candidate.

2) Campaign on the most fundamentalist, anti-gay platform you can imagine. Wake-up in the morning and say to yourself, "Today, I am going to pretend to be Alan Keyes."

3) Reach-out to fundamentalists, evangelicals, and other un-enlightenment types.

4) Your platforms are going to be "protecting" marriage, denying civil unions, keeping gays out of the military, making sure that private companies are not allowed to extend domestic partnership rights, gay people can't file domestic abuse cases against their partners, banning gay-straight alliance groups and tolerance training from public schools, forbidding gay pride events, etc.

More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=221&topic_id=12809#12817