Democrats cowed in the corner with their fingers crossed that no one would make an issue of the Affordable Care Act.
President Obama was absolutely correct when he stated, "...my policies are part of this election." He should have been out there knocking down Republicans where they live because this country is going to be a disaster after 2016 when all the US Senate does is pout over vetoes and filibusters.
Did anyone bother to take a look at the ballot initiatives while they campaigned? In California the ballot initiative was about criminal sentencing.
October 5, 2014
By Erick Eckholm
...The law epitomized (click here) the tough-on-crime policies that produced overflowing prisons and soaring costs.
Now California voters appear poised to scale back the heavy reliance on incarceration they once embraced, with a measure that would transform several lower-level, nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors punishable by brief jail stays, if that, rather than time in a state penitentiary. The referendum on Nov. 4 is part of a national reappraisal of mass incarceration.
To its advocates — not only liberals and moderates, but also an evangelical conservative businessman who has donated more than $1 million to the campaign, calling it “a moral and ethical issue” — the measure injects a dose of common sense into a justice system gone off the tracks....
This should be a liberal issue by all rights. How many times have I heard the right wing complain about liberal language when it comes to calling prisons, a campus. By all rights the right wing should be up in arms about reducing sentencing demands and shortening prison time and even discharging prisoners that have served longer than current sentencing for the same crime.
This issue is also a right wing issue now. Rand Paul and other right wing politicians are embarrassing this. Why? Is it because they found compassion in their years? No. They found MONEY. The liberals want to 'do the right thing' for people and put crime into perspective to even end the death sentence. But, for right wingers, it is about money. So, as long as the political climate is ripe for it, the right wingers will end all the harsh sentencing in states and federal laws.
This was on the same ballot in which Jerry Brown won his fourth term and three Republicans won their elections.
The idea that Democratic campaigns should involve women and minorities in their priorities in nationwide elections is clearly a priority. Women and minorities can be found in the Republican Party, but, only under a microscope. Ben Carson is out there running for President already. A lovely young black woman won a Republican campaign at the federal level and I don't think was based in the War on Women.
This is the second year the Democratic Party has been off message for federal elections in off year elections. 2010 victories for Republicans set up horrible gerrymandered districts. Now, 2014 saw Republican back in seats they once occupied in 2008. Six years should have shown those electorates how Democrats can provide for them as well as Republicans. That didn't happen.
Off year elections are every bit as important as presidential year elections. BUT, the focus is different. The off year elections have to be run by those running with priorities important to their state. The Colorado defeat of Senator Udall was about the most important defeat in 2014. It proved national issues don't play well during off year elections.
I want someone heading up the Democratic Party that has vast experience in running and wining in red states. The Democrats are successful in winning in off year elections in their traditional Democratic districts and states, but, they aren't where the color is red predominantly.
Rush Limbaugh set up the Democrats to lose and they did it throughout their races at the Senate level. The Democrats need new people infusing the focus of their elections. And President Obama is correct, cable news is too distracting with subjects that are nonsense in elections opposed to real issues, hence he doesn't watch it.
While a party chairperson has to be aware of the slander from the right, that has to be sift through to what really matters and redirect the nonsense to issues based in reality.
President Obama was absolutely correct when he stated, "...my policies are part of this election." He should have been out there knocking down Republicans where they live because this country is going to be a disaster after 2016 when all the US Senate does is pout over vetoes and filibusters.
Did anyone bother to take a look at the ballot initiatives while they campaigned? In California the ballot initiative was about criminal sentencing.
October 5, 2014
By Erick Eckholm
...The law epitomized (click here) the tough-on-crime policies that produced overflowing prisons and soaring costs.
Now California voters appear poised to scale back the heavy reliance on incarceration they once embraced, with a measure that would transform several lower-level, nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors punishable by brief jail stays, if that, rather than time in a state penitentiary. The referendum on Nov. 4 is part of a national reappraisal of mass incarceration.
To its advocates — not only liberals and moderates, but also an evangelical conservative businessman who has donated more than $1 million to the campaign, calling it “a moral and ethical issue” — the measure injects a dose of common sense into a justice system gone off the tracks....
This should be a liberal issue by all rights. How many times have I heard the right wing complain about liberal language when it comes to calling prisons, a campus. By all rights the right wing should be up in arms about reducing sentencing demands and shortening prison time and even discharging prisoners that have served longer than current sentencing for the same crime.
This issue is also a right wing issue now. Rand Paul and other right wing politicians are embarrassing this. Why? Is it because they found compassion in their years? No. They found MONEY. The liberals want to 'do the right thing' for people and put crime into perspective to even end the death sentence. But, for right wingers, it is about money. So, as long as the political climate is ripe for it, the right wingers will end all the harsh sentencing in states and federal laws.
This was on the same ballot in which Jerry Brown won his fourth term and three Republicans won their elections.
The idea that Democratic campaigns should involve women and minorities in their priorities in nationwide elections is clearly a priority. Women and minorities can be found in the Republican Party, but, only under a microscope. Ben Carson is out there running for President already. A lovely young black woman won a Republican campaign at the federal level and I don't think was based in the War on Women.
This is the second year the Democratic Party has been off message for federal elections in off year elections. 2010 victories for Republicans set up horrible gerrymandered districts. Now, 2014 saw Republican back in seats they once occupied in 2008. Six years should have shown those electorates how Democrats can provide for them as well as Republicans. That didn't happen.
Off year elections are every bit as important as presidential year elections. BUT, the focus is different. The off year elections have to be run by those running with priorities important to their state. The Colorado defeat of Senator Udall was about the most important defeat in 2014. It proved national issues don't play well during off year elections.
I want someone heading up the Democratic Party that has vast experience in running and wining in red states. The Democrats are successful in winning in off year elections in their traditional Democratic districts and states, but, they aren't where the color is red predominantly.
Rush Limbaugh set up the Democrats to lose and they did it throughout their races at the Senate level. The Democrats need new people infusing the focus of their elections. And President Obama is correct, cable news is too distracting with subjects that are nonsense in elections opposed to real issues, hence he doesn't watch it.
While a party chairperson has to be aware of the slander from the right, that has to be sift through to what really matters and redirect the nonsense to issues based in reality.
