{"id":10417,"date":"2009-11-04T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-04T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:04:38","slug":"act-like-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/04\/act-like-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Act Like Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dave Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutca.org\/weblog\/\">Speak Out California<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are a few lessons to take away from last night&#8217;s elections. &nbsp;The main one is that Democrats should act like Democrats if they want Democrats to show up and vote. &nbsp;Low-turnout elections are base elections: you have to turn out your base or you will lose.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia: The Democrat <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> act like a Democrat and Democrats <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> show up and vote. &nbsp;Deeds told people he was against having a public option in the health care reform bill! &nbsp;He went so far as to say that he would take Virginia out of the public option! &nbsp;<em>So why would any Democrats want to show up and vote for that?<\/em> &nbsp;Meanwhile the Republican comes out of the Pat Robertson religious-right machine, and they <em>did<\/em> show up and vote.<\/p>\n<p>New York: Democrats won a seat that has been Republican for over 100 years. &nbsp;The far-right takeover of the Republicans is an opportunity. &nbsp;Democrats should be working in every single district in the country because no &#8220;solid&#8221; Republican seat is safe anymore.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey: Independents voted Republican and Dems didn&#8217;t turn out. &nbsp;I have no idea yet why this happened and need to see the exit polling. &nbsp;The Democrat previously had been Chairman of Goldman Sachs, and that may well have been a significant factor. <\/p>\n<p>Maine: This was a terrible disappointment. &nbsp;The national Democratic Party didn&#8217;t help. &nbsp;The OFA organization didn&#8217;t help and even asked their members in Maine to come to New Jersey. Democrats had best not expect any fundraising success from LGBT after this.<\/p>\n<p>Click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutca.org\/weblog\/\">Speak Out California<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dave Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutca.org\/weblog\/\">Speak Out California<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are a few lessons to take away from last night&#8217;s elections. &nbsp;The main one is that Democrats should act like Democrats if they want Democrats to show up and vote. &nbsp;Low-turnout elections are base elections: you have to turn out your base or you will lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8010,6851,741,4622],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-8010","tag-6851","tag-741","tag-4622"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2I1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}