This year could conceivable be our greatest triumph since the 60's!!!

[coloradodem2005]

But we need to fight for every single victory. Bush is disgracing his party. People are getting more pissed all the time. His approval rating gets lower all the time. THe occaisonal bounce nonwithstanding. Dems are favored in some senate races and in some house races.

Take my state for example. I got something at the assembly about Salazar and how he was polling much better than both Bob Schaffer and Pete Coors. Kerry is within the margin of error in this state in polls with Bush. Dave Thomas will have Bob Baeupres on the ropes and Conti is mobilizing to hit Tancredo. I don't want to get ahead of myself here but the energy of the people was electric. The turnout was excellent. I have been hearing these kinds of things all over the country. So I just want to say to the right wing loons in office right now. "We're coming. You're going. Please, let the door hit you on the ass on your way out."

[NMDemDist2]

1. yup I think you may very well be right ColDem n/t

[coloradodem2005]

2. I hope I am.

We can take advantage of the weaknesses of the Republicans.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. We are but only if they do not decide to do

something stupid and push for a civil war... before leaving

[Lexingtonian]

4. It's gonna be The Turnaround Election

Still, don't forget that a lot of voters are generally an election late on a lot of understandings and issues. They just don't embrace or catch on to the real political climate and extent and depth of trends until newspapers come out explaining the election results and the water cooler talk afterwards comes to some consensus about what it means.

So it's going to be hard work and don't be disheartened if some really promising campaigns don't quite make it through in the end. This phenomenon of political reality lag can be a really frustrating obstacle, but the second time a good campaign is tried on the same issues the voters have all caught on and the good argument tends to be really easy to make, because of the familiarity. Colorado should show a decent Democratic trend (maybe 2%-3% over '00) and I think most of the campaigns you refer to got their first runthrough in '02 (though not with the same candidates), so '04 should be a lot better (the '02 issue platform wasn't bad and the candidates were decent- that can be built upon).

And if '04 is the national breakthrough for Democrats that seems to be in the trend numbers (national majority in the Presidential race, almost but not quite a retake of Congress) then '06 is the mop-up operation.

[coloradodem2005]

5. I will participate in the mop-up.

I denfinitely am not going to get complacient. I am just saying that things look good if we play our cards right, now and especially in the next two years.

[Lexingtonian]

7. I like what I hear from Colorado, too

That's a good lineup this year. I'm pretty sure you'll lose Beauprez, at least.

The Kerry campaign has also, very quietly, moved into the state. My guess is that the game being tried is the Salazar brothers are going focus on rallying the (generally low turnout) Hispanic vote in Pueblo and southern Colorado and the Kerry people are going to try to help push up Democratic turnout in Denver and Boulder.

[Ridley Park 704]

6. 5 reasons why I think we will do it

1. Democrats are united and juiced; turnout will be bigger than in 2000.

2. Bush isn't the white knight anymore riding in to save America from a blow job. His record of ineptitude, lies and war cannot be erased this time. No more "giving him the benefit of the doubt."

3. To me, Kerry seems more popular than Al Gore, a man who got more popular votes than any Democrat in history. Al's vote count stunned the GOP who thought Bush would get millions more popular votes.

4. Moderates realize that if Bush wins and the Congress stays GOP, the government will be even more dictatorial than ever. Better to get a Dem president in there, just to combat that dark possibility, even if Kerry is not the greatest thing since sliced bread.

5. if Kerry loses, the military draft starts early in 2005. Got a teenage son, you moderate voter?


and many more reasons I can't think of right now.

Let us hope this will be our year!

[DaveSZ]

8. Kerry needs to pick an exciting VP

I agree with you though that this could be a GREAT year for us if we work hard, and raise money.

The Corporate War Chimp has indeed disgraced his party.