According to all the polls, it's going to be a democratic landslide, and I don't see anything else besides the dems taking back the house
What the democrats need to do is
1. Show that the 3 area's causing the debt are benefits, nation building and federal wall street hand outs. Tell the public throw easily understood graphs that these are the area's that are causing our debt. Tell them that you will work to fix the problem/concerns.
2. Give up the anti-white slant of the party. I am not saying stop being pro-non-white but you don't like it when the republicans slam/attack blacks??? Whites vote and dropping that @ offering real solutions = winning out right. Racial politics are bad.
3. Showing that the democrats can lead America in the 21st century. Strong defense, pro science and education.
This is the winning ticket to win big time.
On #1. Subsidies to big business should go out the window except in cases of R and D that will benefit the nation. Then, if the R and D works out well for the company, the government should be paid back the cost, specified that it will go to further R and D partnerships of business and government.
Benefits will go down as people go back to work. SS benefits should not be cut, but means testing may be put into affect, as long as it is done in a form that does not discourage individual saving. Medicare should be merged or expanded into a Single Payer Universal Health Care System, funded from income taxes on all income.
#2 I don't think that there is that much anti-white sentiment in the Democratic Party. We have our Al Sharpton's, the GOP has their Michelle Bachmann's. Most of us just want to be represented by someone that reflects our needs and interests, irregardless of complexion or ethnicity.
#3. Strong defense, yes, but we don't need to spend nearly as much on defense as the rest of the world combined.
Education, most certainly. Oregon is adapting a variant on the idea put forward by John Campbell, editor of the Analog Science Fiction Magazine about 50 years ago. If it works, it could make education affordable for all that qualify, while making the financial burden reasonable. If it does work, it should be adopted for the whole nation.
Encourage science by all reasonable means. Demonstrate nationally respect for the people that have given us this wonderful life we enjoy at present. At present there are far too many in politics that like to demagogue on 'elite scientists'. Can that. Point out the terrible fallacy that it is based on, that ignorance is better than knowledge.
