If you want to defeat our current Congresswoman at the ballot box, you have to go for her field soldiers. They are the ones that go door-to-door, man the phones, and wave signs on election day.
Since the beginning of her political career, her followers have always assumed she was a progressive Democrat and would vote that way. And from the start she talked a good game, but it was easy to vote against Bush and the Republicans.
2008 was the pinnacle with her drawing an amazing 50% of registered Democrat voters. Compare that to the Republicans only pulling a 28% turnout of our registered voters. Early 2009 was to be the beginning of Big Government with Obama and both houses of Congress all controlled by the Democrats. But our Congresswoman voted against all the important bills for libs starting with climate change and ending with the health reform bill. She also failed to submit bills dealing with gay rights, gun control and ending the wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
To win in 2010 you must shine a light on her voting record. Show it to her ground troops and let the see they have been supporting a Representative that votes like a modern day Republican.
But then what will you offer those Democrats in return? Another modern-day Republican? Or is this just a strategy to get Dems to stay home? It's a double-edged sword: show she's more Republican, and you may get some Dems to sit on their hands, but you also build the case she's trying to make to independents and moderate Republicans that she's not Pelosi's lapdog. Can you thread that needle?
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