Show how they are intent on restricting the rights of women, controlling their bodies, and "keeping them in their own place." Use the GOP's "War on women" to motivate the women of this country to throw that twisted agenda right back in their chauvinistic faces by turning out to vote en masse, using their power to rid the Senate of these political slugs.
Here is an excellent illustration of political cruelty, an excerpt from an alternet.com article that states: "When Republicans in Congress chose in December not to renew the federally funded emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) program for Americans who had been out of work for six months or more, 1.3 million people suddenly lost the small weekly check they were using to tide them over until they could find a job. And about 10 percent or 130,000 of them were military veterans.
That kind of treatment of these unemployed Americans, and especially the veterans, is absolutely disgusting and repulsive and shows just how cruel these sociopathic politicians are by nature. They have no problem with sending young Americans into mindless wars but when the troops come home, many of them severely wounded, they want no part of them. The mass of Americans need to be constantly reminded about this heartless behavior.
Here are some of the political strategies that the Democratic Party should be using to inform the American people what this election is all about and then using every resource at their disposal to make this next voter turnout one of the greatest in modern American history:
First and above all; attack, attack, attack. Start a powerful, relentless campaign across this country to expose the Republicans for what they do, portray them as total obstructionists and destructionists. Every tactic must have the final aim of turning out the vote. Here's an article by John Nichols that gives advice on how to do it. He advises that "Lesson One: Turnout is definitional" and "Lesson Two: Turnout can be substantially increased, even in the most difficult of circumstances, with focused energy, resources and messaging." So the overriding objective must be: "Turnout, Turnout, Turnout."
Experts following this election indicate that the Republicans can take control of the Senate by capturing six states that Democrats currently hold. The most likely states in which they can do this are Alaska, Iowa, North Caroline, Louisiana, Arkansas and Montana. In addition Republicans would have to hang onto two Senate seats; the one held by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky and the open Georgia seat.
These are the key states on which the Democrats should be concentrating and pumping in massive amounts of campaign funds in order to support their candidates; this is where they must channel a lion's share of their resources and efforts. This is "ground zero", this is where the action will be. Don't the Democrats get it, don't they see what they must do? Do they need someone to draw them a picture or must they get their leaders enrolled in a crash course on Politics 101?
Democrats have just watched and done very little to combat the aggressive voter suppression laws that Republicans have initiated in any number of states as their main strategy to win elections. With just over 4 months to go before this election, the Democrats should already be implementing their own tactics and advising potential Democratic voters in these states under Republican control on how to meet these new stringent voting requirements. They need to make certain that the maximum numbers of their supporters vote. What are these Democrats waiting for, what's it going to take to get them off their butts?
In this great struggle for control of the Senate the GOP has unlimited funding from massive corporations and it largely controls the media. The Democrats have the power of the majority of the American people behind them, that is, if they can harness it. They must motivate all Americans and concentrate heavily on convincing Hispanics, African Americans, other minorities and, of great importance, the women of this country, to go to the polls and vote. Harnessing the power of these critically important voting blocs will be the key to being victorious in these upcoming elections.
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