The New York Times has a few ideas:
What should be the Democratic strategy in November? Prominent Democrats and political analysts offer their advice for how the party can regain control of Congress.
Nine possible strategies are briefly discussed. None of which really give me any hope. Here are three:
The Truth - By Stanley B. Greenberg:
KARL ROVE is telling Republicans that they should campaign on the American economy, virtually the “strongest in the world,” and on the Iraq war because Republicans will be there for “the last tough battles,” while Democrats “fall back on the party’s old platform of cutting and running.”
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Start Making Sense - By Kevin Drum
THE American public loathes the bickering, deadlocked 109th Congress. Its approval rating was a subterranean 25 percent in September’s New York Times/CBS poll. That makes this year’s Democratic strategy simple: make sure the public knows exactly who’s in charge of this wretched assemblage. Not a speech should go by without the phrase “Republican Congress” being repeated at least a dozen times. Two dozen would be even better.
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A Spinal Transplant - By Michael Eric Dyson
IF Democrats want to win Congress in November, they’ve got to stop hating themselves and come out of the liberal closet. They learned self-hate from being beaten by Republicans who painted them as un-American wimps, soft on crime, the social pathologies of poverty and eventually terror. Some Democrats responded by masquerading as moderate Republicans and dropping their liberal commitments: advocacy for the poor, for raising the minimum wage and against war.
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These are all great, but my favorites are missing. Grow a set - where the Democrats actually put together a leadership team that can win an election. And, Steal the religious middle - the religious right is already a lost cause, but what about the great mass of the religious middle, I.e. "normal people"?
Whatever happens in the next elections, the Democrats won't win, it will be the Republicans who loose.
