Campaign ad: Obama and Usama bin Laden on same screen. Low-level operative in McCain's campaign accepts blame and resigns. McCain decries the ad (as opposed to Obama's tactic of saying it was a “mistake”).

Wasn't Howard Dean against this before, even when he was attacked by the left fringe for discussing the need for outreach? It's Obama's own campaign this year that has reached out to those other states. And yes, there is a need for the Dems to scrap their up-to-1960s-and-1970s stupidity and failure and become modern. The US's population continues to relocate largely south and west, in the places with modern economic vitality and growing power. (Wise planning through 2100 would mean relocating the federal capital to Oklahoma City, as I've writtten before, which is also where the population center of the USA is headed by that time.) The Dems truly need to be new Dems and go beyond the superficiality (and frequent phoniness) of Clinton and Gore post-1994 with their “New Democrats” and “Third Way” “reinventing government” and truly be sensible and up to date. There are major metro areas out there displacing the metros that were important when people were children but which matter little now — that includes big Detroit, where I currently am; the domestic auto industry that is successful is in places like Nashville! — and the new ones are the ones that matter — not just Seattle and Portland (Oregon, not Maine; ahem) but Phoenix, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Nashville, and so on. That is the future of our country, they are large metro areas that support liberal politics, and that's where the Dems should be basing their new political and enonomic models and learning from these places as opposed to Rust Belt junk bucket government-fiefdom-and-parasitism of the past.

I just hope the Dems don't go dangerously too far leftward. (Despite dishonest claims to the contrary, there's nothing like that on the right with Republicans.)

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That's on a different playing field than pointing out John McCain's policy will keep our troops in harms way for decades more. That Bush & Musharraf appeased Al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan's borders. That the banking collapse is being blamed on a dearth of regulation in the wake of Republican deregulation laws.

Chris your talking points are old and tired. Its already been proven that the left uses fear to get elected just as the right does. They say McCain will be a continuation of Bush.. 100 years? Mr. McCain you cannot have my child……blah, blah, blah. Its not about using fear. Its about using fear against your opponent. Were no safer. Were less safer. Bin Laden is still out there. Be afraid. Were heading for depression. More years of GOP rule and the country will collapse. etc. etc..etc.

The first thing he did? Climb aboard the political bandwagon. As far as winning. Yep the democrats have learned a lesson…..They despised, hated. berated and abhorred the GOP strategy of winning at all costs and vowed that it was criminally insane how the GOP practiced politics.

Now today they are jumping up and down and having orgasms over the power of winning at all costs gives them. There certainly is no shortage of hypocrits in the democratic party that is for sure.

Demographic alone is going to make more places solidly Democratic. It should be apparent that the Democratic Party is not going to be able to turn off its partisan ways once it becomes the one dominate party.

The question everyone seems to avoid is what will the U.S. be like as a one party state. What will all of the hyperpartisans in the Democratic do once the Democratic Primary is the only real election is the U.S?

And there you go. Its not about winning. Its about destroying the GOP. Good for them. That is precisely why the DNC forced Obama to forgo Public Campaign financing so they could destroy the gop with a cash cow. His first act as the nominee……..a Candidate who claimed he would stand up to special interests…..his first act was to cave on principal and give into the DNC's wishes……..A special interest.

Huh?

Obama raised 52 million in JUNE alone. McCain raised 62.5 million in the preceeding 3 months…..he is in effect being out funded 2.5×1. Thats hardly about even.

And if you have other figures that support that conclusion please share them with us as everything I have read, Obama is a cash cow for the DNC which is going to destroy the GOP this fall.

That said, there are things you can spend money on like paid GOTV staffers. If you can hire real, committed people to go out and register voters and set up databases and get all of your voters to the polls, you can sway an election by three points.

Think about ti: Obama's key to victory is driving up turnout among black and young voters. To do that, you need a lot of committed resources to identify voters, register them, track them, and make sure they vote – early if possible. That costs money.