(inspired by Miss Blue's Red Cow Truck)
Wisconsin is, I think, as emblematic as Ohio or Montana of the growing realization that blind party affiliation is not the way to elect a government. It is the ideas that matter.
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There aren't a
lot of college degrees in my extended family (given the size of my family), which is not to say my family is unintelligent. Far from it. My grandmother worked in the maternity ward until they told her she couldn't (after
YEARS) because she didn't have a college degree. She went on to
train the new hires on how to do the job for which she was "unqualified".
But I'm finding it increasingly hard to find Republican sympathy in my family. This is a family from the redder-than-red Fox River Valley area. I can think of one definite Republican, out of two grandparents, their nine kids, and the fifteen grandchildren.
Things are changing. While poll numbers like the ones on the FP right now might not show Democratic numbers rising in exact correlation to the drop in Republican numbers, it is the ideas that matter. Voters are coming to see, and will continue to see, that progressive Democrats do in fact embody the ideas they value.
And all those cute little Luntzisms are starting to be revealed as the empty slogans we all know they are. They are not ideas. Responsible government, good stewardship of the environment, and policies that benefit the people more than the corporation are what people want. It just so happens that Democrats act with these ideas at heart. I firmly believe that November will bear this out.