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I'll start:
1. Make sure that voting machines without paper trails go the way of the dodo bird. Pound the pavement and make this THE NUMBER ONE issue that we work on so the potential for a stolen election never happens again by the most obvious of means.
2. Create a get-out-the-vote effort specifically designed for young people aged 18-29 that is party-run. We can't leave this shit up to outside groups anymore.
3. Start fielding presidential candidates who don't force their Senate and House colleagues to RUN AWAY from them, but rather, to run alongside them. This isn't a knock, specifically, on Kerry, but this goes way beyond ideology or geography and into a sense of who represents ALL of America. Kerry was a great representative for Blue State America, but we need someone who has more all-around appeal. Yeah, I have no idea who that is either.
4. Drop gun-control as a party platform. As big of a gun-hater as I am, I know its just not helping us. It's the easiest of all our 'hot button' issues to drop. Yield nothing on abortion, no matter how many fundamentalist wackos it draws out of the caves.
5. Personality matters. More than ideas. Ideas are luxuries you quibble about when times are easy. The raw cult of personality drives politics today and the party needs to put an emphasis on finding candidates who, while you don't know what they stand for, you have a sense of who they are just by looking at them and hearing them speak. My minimum qualification - a sense of humor.
6. Ascend the rise of Barak Obama as quickly as possible. I want him as Minority leader in 2 years, no less. Any time there is a major address to be given - he should be making it. Any time we need to rebut Bush in the next four years - he should be spittin' the truth. If anything gave me hope yesterday it was that we have an actual STAR in this party now.
7. Get George Soros on the phone and BEG him to purchase CNN from Time Warner.
8. Spread out the primary process so that Iowa by itself does not MAKE our nominee on Day 1. Too much attention is focused on it. We need to reform the system so that three states run primaries on the first day. My suggestion - New Hampshire, South Carolina and Wisconsin.
9. Continue to build this fund-raising apparatus that began during this year's primaries. If we can match the GOP dollar-for-dollar there's a better than average chance we'll win more elections than we lose.
10. Keep organized. Don't disband into a million separate groups all fighting for different pet issues which serve to do nothing but soften our voice and keep us disjointed. Do we want to make election reform our top priority, or media reform? We must agree on this and then stick with it until we accomplish what we want. And never, NEVER, stop fighting. No lapse in effort. No lapse in time spent working. Go out today and throw as many nails on the highway as you can to stop Bush's truck from running over all of us.
Those are my ideas. Anyone else got anything constructive to add?
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