(I like this idea. The Blog Brain… – promoted by SFBrianCL)

Ok. Here’s a brainstrom. Let’s use our collective Blog Brain to help me gather some info for the CA-48th campaign which has it’s General Election on Dec 6th.

Now that we are in a General Election it is natural that there will be more conflict between the limited field. In the primary there were 17 candidates.

Now, realistically, there’s Steve Young (D), John Campbell (R) and Jim Gilchrist (More important stuff on the flip.AIP).

[Note before you write-off Gilchrist,  know that today he is having a $1000 per person fundraiser abroad one of the Tall Ships around here for a day of seagoing etc. And he’ll sell it out is my guess. I’ll let you know.]

If we were to change message at all, assuming you’ve been watching our message, what would you like to see?

Check the website, Steve Young for Congress, to get a feel for his core message and stand on issues, then tell us how you would approach the coming General Election where the Three Frontrunners have to confront their differences more directly and, perhaps, dramatically.

All responses will be taken seriously if written that way. Thanks.

PS: This isn’t a debate about his view, BTW. They are what they are although he’s shown himself to be open to other sides. This is about the General Election Message in a Red District.

First Rule: Before you can govern, you must win.

Well, the CA-48th has settled into a three period waiting for the November 8th statewide elections.  Everyone in the 48th is trying their best to help do the work necessary on the November 8th election and still help CA-48 and Steve Young and it’s hard on everyone! I think both will pick up dramatically for us after the Statewide General Election is finished and the Governor’s effort is defeated.

Yesterday Governor Muscles started his official GOTV effort in OC and Steve Young was out front with the Firefighters, Police unions and other labor groups protesting with signs and shouts. He is due to go to a Senator Clinton fundraiser tonight. Will he get an official photo we can use? I don’t know yet. That was still being talked about last I heard.

But the most amazing piece of info from this mornings article about the Statewide General Special Election was that even Muscles was only predicting a 30% turnout!

With the tens of millions that both sides have already spent on this race I thought it would be much higher than that.

This makes my own prediction for Dec 6th (the Final General Election for Ca-48th) of 18%, down from the 22% of the Oct 4th Primary, seem realistic…not just wishful.

If we can move a relative handful of our 108K Democratic Base and the 75K Indy base…much less pick up the Republican women that won’t vote for the Republican because he’s Anti-Choice….

We can win this race!

We need you good Democrats and Independents to work hard to defeat those damn propositions but not forget the hard work of Steve Young, his volunteers and give generously as you can.

All of us know this isn’t the easiest time to be a Democrat in California. We are faced with huge money and an enormous machine.

But remember that the modern Democratic Party was born in the struggle of the Union movement when getting to the negotiating table was done with physical fighting, blood and broken bones. What we do today is nothing compared to what was done by those brave people a generation or two before us.

Work hard and never, ever give up. Our Democratic forefathers, many of whom shed blood on the picket lines or getting into polling places, demand it of us.