Reply #53: 2000, 2002 and 2004 [View All]

[Ken Burch]

All elections the party should have been able to count on winning in a landslide.

All lost because the party obsessed with not seeming "liberal" and ended up sounding
like it stood for nothing, causing mass abstentions(especially in the first two).

All lost because the party didn't get the NINE MILLION unregistered African American voters registered, which Jesse Jackson could've managed if you'd given him the resources.

The party could have won in 2004 if it had clearly run as the peace party on Iraq. The country was breaking from Bush, and a Democratic lead in that direction would have accelerated the trend.
Instead, the party's whole theme was that Kerry had a great biography. A theme they allowed the Swift Boaters to destroy without a fight.

Caution and moderation equal defeat. The last three go rounds prove this.