Mehlman probably did the best he could with a bad hand.
Let's see: the Dems put a raving liberal in as head after losing the last election and then successfully ran a bunch of phony conservatives...
Was taking a break from Rutgers football and channel surfed. I swear I heard some dame say that Howard Dean should run for President. I didn't stay long enough to see if she was serious. LOLOL.......
GREAT point.
Not really. Instead of spending enormous amounts of time and money trying to protect some NE liberals like Chafee, they should've put some effort on protecting conservative states and districts, i.e. putting few commercials like "My opponent is a good man/woman and we agree on most issues important to our district, but voting for this Blue Dog Democrat will put Yellow Dog from San Francisco in charge of the House and advance her agenda" and something similar for the Senate - cheap, easy and effective without being negative at all about your opponent... I didn't see any of these type of ads for those who don't listen to Rush.
Let's see: the Dems put a raving liberal in as head after losing the last election and then successfully ran a bunch of phony conservatives...
They should've paid attention to what Rahm and Chuck were doing, not what Dean was saying. Of course, putting any Dole in charge of election committee is a disaster, but Karl and Ken clearly missed the dynamics of Dems strategy and didn't get the turnout they were hoping for - with new rules and voting now starting early (I voted 10 days before the election day) and ease of absentee ballots strategy of turnout should change as well. GOP should stop this deference to "it's his/her turn" party elders and get younger bright enthusiastic eloquent idea people into positions of power and responsibilities for elections. They're also usually more conservative and can get youth energized to vote GOP.
For instance, as counterpart, check out the very liberal (and very bright) strategist here http://matthewyglesias.com/ ... Lots of analysis and practical ideas on how to win elections, and critique of some of Rove strategies starting in 2000, particularly stress on RI and NJ senate races.
This is something we need to be doing.