Democrats Score in the Rockies Media Coverage, Supporters, The Big Strategy

From John Nichols, writing in The Nation, come these excellent thoughts:

Western Democrats tended to abandon the national party's template and focus on local issues, they relied far more heavily on volunteers than paid staff and they worked much, much harder--and with considerable success--to attract rural voters. ...

If there is a single lesson that Democrats and their activist allies need to learn after what was for the most part a 2004 electoral debacle, it is that rural America is still winnable. And they can start by looking west.

Nichols does an excellent job of recapping many of the positive outcomes in 2004 - as well as drawing common threads of campaign strategy among the winning Western Democrat campaigns. Read the rest of Democrats Score in the Rockies.

Kari Chisholm | November 23, 2004 | Comment on This Post (0 so far) Permalink: Democrats Score in the Rockies Media Coverage, Supporters, The Big Strategy

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