Reply #21: nope, target state ballot initatives that can draw dems to the polls [View All]

[kodi]

just like the right wing used anti-gay marriage ballot initatives.

it will require a state by state approach to get on to the ballot plebescites that draw out liberals and moderates to vote on election day.

legalize pot, raise the speed limit to 85, no seatbelt laws, allow smoking in bars, etc., target those behavioral things that are libertarian at heart and ride them in the polls.

down here in georgia in 2002, the gop challenger won the governor's seat because he promised to repeal the motorcycle helmet law and bikers flocked to the polls and help sonny perdue beat a heavily favored democratic incumbent.

the most important things that happened in the election besides the national campaigns were the texas redistricting scheme that cost the house democrats 3-5 seats, and the 11 ballot inititives on gay marriage. these alone were small potatoes, but they forced democrats to the wall and brought out the gop supporters.

as far as tactics go one could produce inititives so outrageous that even right wingers would not support them, thus placing the gop in the position of agreeing with progressives and blurring the lines between them.

plans within plans within plans.

never, ever forget this: all warfare is based upon deception.

this time out, the GOP had better tacticians.