5. It changes the subject.
As we were saying, Republicans have been setting the agenda this year. Ebola. ISIS -- they want to talk about anything except what they have in mind for the vast majority of Americans.
Instead of answering silly questions like "Did you vote for Obama?" Democrats could keep doing what Bruce Braley is now doing in Iowa. His new ad points to opponent Joni Ernst's support for Social Security privatization and emphasized the riskiness of that approach. And the narrator in a new Louisiana ad says (in that grim "narrator" voice):
"When it comes to seniors, Congressman Bill Cassidy has a plan: Raise the retirement age for Social Security and Medicare to 70."
It's late in the campaign, and voters' minds may already be pretty much made up. But it only makes sense to put Republicans on the defensive for supporting proposals that would hurt American families -- and for contrasting that with proposals that would make things better for those families.
But if Democrats are going to do that, they better act now.
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