by Dave Johnson | Aug 13, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
Watch this video of a smart politician who knew how to campaign in the Midwest. He know what people were thinking had his finger on the pulse of what people wanted to do about it: [fve]http://youtu.be/PF9gpvI2UfU[/fve] Democrats Campaigning As Republicans? A recent...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 13, 2014 | Blog, Winning Issues for 2014
Are Democrats the party of future change or the party of past accomplishment? Are they fighting for what needs to be done or touting what has already been done? Is the economy on the right track or is it rigged to benefit the few and not the many? Are Democrats...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 12, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Winning Issues for 2014
They say that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and one Politico story certainly doesn’t make a campaign season. But if a recent article there is correct – if the Democratic Party’s strategy this year really is “Running as a Dem (while) sounding like a Republican” –...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
A common admonition progressives have gotten used to hearing over the years is to support more conservative Democratic candidates because "Republicans are worse." This admonition makes some sense in electoral politics, when, in most cases, progressives face a ballot...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 23, 2014 | Populist Majority, Winning Issues for 2014
If Democrats want to keep control of the Senate this fall, a new Democracy Corps memo says that it will have to target a progressive populist message to single women and the "rising American electorate" that acknowledges that the economy remains rigged against working...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 22, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Minimum Wage
Sen. Rand Paul mocked President and Mrs. Obama for wanting their daughters to experience working for minimum wage. My own experience taught me “the value of work,” and to value the workers for whom earning a paycheck isn’t always fun, stimulating, or fair. In a...
