Can we recruit leaders for the cause for Election Reform by watching to see what is on their "to-do" lists and partnering with them to create the kind of power we need to run this train?
Example: Here's the latest I found from John Edwards via Washington Post
John Edwards's Gamble
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, January 28, 2005; Page A27
(snip)
"...Moral issues matter, Edwards says, but Democrats won't look moral by getting into a bidding war over how often they can invoke the name of God. Instead, Democrats should speak with conviction about an issue that has always animated them: the alleviation of poverty. "I think it is a moral issue; it's something we should be willing to fight about and stand up for," he says.
Those who counsel caution, he says, would let calculation push Democrats away from their historical commitments. "They think it's associated with some political label," he says, carefully avoiding the L-word himself. "They think that a lot of people who live in poverty don't vote and don't participate and so they don't think there's a lot of political capital there."
Edwards, who is planning to set up a center to study ways to alleviate poverty, is enough of a politician to insist that he wants to advocate not only on behalf of the destitute but also for those just finding their footing on mobility's ladder. But he offers the unexpected claim that the very voters who have strayed from the Democrats would respond forcefully to the moral imperative of aiding the poor..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43112-2005Jan27.htmlWhat better way to empower the poor than to ensure their vote? With people like Edwards and other important contenders voicing this cause, how could the media and others ignore us? Any ideas on how we can get Edwards' and other's attention?
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