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From: LindyBill5/4/2005 2:47:39 PM
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From the Mailbag II: Washington Dems

By Dean

Ari Melber sent me this missive yesterday:

I thought your blog may be intersted in this op-ed I wrote for today's Seattle Post Intelligencer.

As a former Washington state Kerry Campaign staffer, I contrast how local Democrats embraced Kerry on his Seattle trip yesterday while local Republicans are worried that Tom DeLay's national scandal will hurt freshman Congressman Dave Reichert.

seattlepi.nwsource.com

After reading it, I drew two conclusions:

1) It's apparent that Democrats are going to attempt to nationalize the 2006 elections, much as the Republicans successfully did in the 1994 and 2002 midterms, and as Democrats somewhat less successfully did in 1998.

It's a tough trick to pull off, because you have to be united on not just one but two agendas: yes,why the other guys are bad, but also, why you have the better answers. It looks like they've got the first covered (they really don't like Tom DeLay), but are still working on the second. I'll say now that if they can't come up with the second, they can't expect to do more than moderately well: the "I hate Bush and those crummy Republicans" strategy isn't enough. It helps raise money, but money doesn't win elections.

2) It's growing more and more obvious all the time that John Kerry will be running for President again in 2008. And that he has a good chance of getting the Democratic nomination.
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