“11/03/2010, 10:35am EST”
“Will either side draw the right lessons from this midterm election? Mr. Obama, and his party, have to do a far better job of explaining their vision and their policies. Mr. Obama needs to break his habits of neglecting his base voters and of sitting on the sidelines and allowing others to shape the debate. He needs to do a much better job of stiffening the spines of his own party’s leaders.”
—NY Times Editorial Board, today (link). The key piece of this passage is the part about neglecting the base. We’re the ones who donate, who talk to friends, who create grassroots media, who blog, who write letters to editors, who comment on articles — in short, who are influential. We’re also the ones who vote — when we aren’t being shat upon. If the NY Times editorial team gets it, the enlightenment of Democratic politicians is past due.
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