POLL : What do Democrats need to do to be more appealing to voters?

[kentuck]

[HughBeaumont]

1. Tell them fairy-tale bullshit they want to hear.

See "Reagan, Ronald" or "Bush, George W."

Oh, and put a curtain over the soldier coffins, the canyon of debt and the Plutocracy.

[NJmaverick]

2. None of these above. The voters,especially those that consider themselves liberal

need to wake up to the serious danger the GOP poses, before it's too late. The party of no is not going to make things better.

[kentuck]

3. I would venture...

that more liberal Democrats will vote than moderate Democrats?

[NJmaverick]

11. They have to do more than vote for them, as the corporate pesonhoods will be out

in full force for the GOP

[kentuck]

16. So if they cannot convince enough moderates to get off their asses...

...it is the fault of the liberals??

[NJmaverick]

17. I would say the liberals who spent the last 2 years attacking and tearing down the Dems

will have a share of the blame

[kentuck]

18. What you call "attacking and tearing down" ...

may be called "constructive criticism and guidance to get back on the right track" by others. Of course, many will blame the liberals no matter what.

[NJmaverick]

21. You can call a turd a lily but it won't make it smell any better

[notesdev]

4. They need to enforce the law against the wealthy and powerful

instead, our officeholders only seem to know how to turn the screws on the middle and lower classes. If we wanted that, that's what the GOP is for.

The one shot we'd have of pulling out of this election without a disaster goes like this:

Step 1) Geithner and his buddies, fired - today. As in clearance revoked, wait at the security desk while security cleans out your desk and puts it in a box for you to carry home.

Step 2) Immediately freeze all assets and accounts from every person who has held an executive level position in a large bank or investment bank, revoke all passports, place them under house arrest.

Step 3) Fast track prosecutions, highest level and most well known offenders first. Hank Paulson is a good first choice, so is Alan Greenspan, Lloyd Blankfein, Dick Fuld, Jamie Dimon, or even Geithner himself. Actually prosecuting Geithner first would be an excellent choice as it would demonstrate to the public that this isn't a partisan operation.

Step 4) Impeach and remove Ben Bernanke, replace with an explicitly temporary chairman whose tenure is granted on good behavior and regular (as in monthly) consent of Congress.

Step 5) Tell the damn truth about what has happened in our financial sector and how justice will be done.

Step 6) Send the military to Wall Street and shut the whole damn place down in the name of national security.

Not much time left until the election, so this is about all that can be done in this time frame.

I'm not holding my breath, but here's the playbook for victory at the polls if anyone is interested.

[Dreamer Tatum]

22. I showed your post around and you have provided much-needed laughs over here

Please, keep it up.

[notesdev]

24. Where's 'here'?

Wall St.? DNC? SEC?

[Dreamer Tatum]

26. An eeeeeeeeeeeevil place that requires your scrutiny

And we ALL need to be locked up for crimes you can't quite specify.

:eyes:

[Myrina]

5. Other: FIGHT the GOP, not try to be BFF's with them!

n/t

[TheKentuckian]

6. They need to reject and combat Reaganism to the last breath while serving the working and poor

people.

[HopeHoops]

7. Other: Free booze. Free ice cream. Free hookers. Free tater tots. Free deep-fried anything.

That's what the Republicans do. They need to get with the program!

[blondeatlast]

8. I hate to say it, but they need better marketing, period. nt

[kentuck]

10. Does that have anything to do with your message...?

...and what you stand for??

[Little Star]

9. I chose other because

They need to be progressive AND they need to draw a sharp contrast with Republicans.

In other words, they need to be true principled Democrats not weak kneed Republican lite!
It would also help if they stood with the people instead of the money interests and corporations!

[laureloak]

12. Promote their accomplishments. TARP has been successful - say that.

Take credit for the bipartisan work that implemented TARP. Voters want to see that congress is working together to solve their problems, so show how that was done with TARP.

Dems own the healthcare bill and there's no running from it. Either promote it or offer to revise it. If the parts of the healthcare bill that voters dislike can be revised, bring up the subject for discussion. At the very least plant the idea that we have the basics in place in the healthcare bill that passed but it is subject to improvement as necessary.

[Historic NY]

13. Buy ponies...

:dilemma:

[Scuba]

14. Continue to expose Republican graft and hypocracy.

[left is right]

15. They need to have a media

that promotes them the way the repukes have

[Cresent City Kid]

19. It's too late for this, but

They could have simply run on their legislative record if they had done things a little differently. For example, the no vote on tax cut extensions for the middle class before the election. This is only one case where they shrank in fear of republican campaign ads that had yet to come. In general, if they had passed good legislation without fear of the reaction, the Democratic ads would write themselves.

In other cases, things that did pass and had beneficial effects are not being expained properly, or at all when challenged. The Dems are playing it safe at their own peril.

[joeybee12]

20. Other...they need to play offense, not defense...n/t

[TCJ70]

23. Be Democrats.

[blindpig]

25. That's funny...

the biggest vote getter, 'contrast', is the hardest thing to do, getting harder by the day. In order to do that there must be some substance.

[leftstreet]

27. Give every citizen a check for $50k before the polls close n/t

[Luciferous]

28. Start acting like Democrats instead of Republicans

:shrug:

[s-cubed]

29. They need to do two things:

1. explain and act on progressive ideals
2. grow a backbone and stand up for those ideals.