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Take a look at this new poll from Ipsos:

I need to move to France.  More vacation, shorter hours, and less of this silly my God, your God talk.  

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This week, the Pew Research Center released a new, comprehensive look at the American electorate.  What has been great about reading over the results so far is how Pew broke down the demographics groups in this country.  

Instead of Red v. Blue, or Liberal v. Conservative, Pew created 9 different groups (3 for the right, 3 for the middle, and 3 for the left) to help better understand to current political climate here in the US.

The break-down and definition of the groups is found here, but here is the summary:

I haven't gone through all the pages and data yet (will by the weekend), but I just thought I'd share with you all some of their key findings, and how we can use them in our local at state races to help re-build the Democratic foundation and tradition that guided this country for 60+ years.

OH MY GOD!  Did you see the news today?  The US Government is BANKRUPT!  It is BROKEN!  In the 3Q of 2004, it ran a record $165 Billion shortfall!  The estimate for FY2004 was a short fall of $450 Billion!

The US Government is an UNFUNDED mandate!  It can only provide 75% of the money it has PROMISED in spending to the military, health care, etc!  With tax receipts of around $1.8 Trillion last year, the US Government is spending $2.3 Trillion!  Oh god, what are we to do?!?!

Not only that, the US Government currently has an $8 Trillion short fall created by Republican administrations.  That's over 4 times the amount of money the government takes in in one year alone!

That's right, the US Government is BROKEN!  Not in 2041, not in 2052, but RIGHT NOW!

Compare the US Government as a whole to Social Security, which is currently running a SURPLUS!  How is a program that is running a surplus RIGHT NOW bankrupt and broken, while the government is running a debt even larger than Social Security's projected deficit in 2041 is perfectly fine with borrow-and-spend Bush economics?

There are tons of canvassers and volunteers still angry from Nov. 2, with not much to do.  Well, do I have an idea, and it works in every single state--swing or no swing--in the US of A.

Go door-to-door in rich, exurbs and suburbs, trying to find families with draft age kids or younger, to sign up for the military!

Fox broadcasts the worst smut on TV than anyone.  Trading Spouses?  So much for the sanctity of marriage!  

How about sex, drugs, and violence to our kids?  Ever seen the OC?  Or North Shore?

It's glamourizes sex, drugs, violence, and all with the FOX name.

I wrote on my blog about how we as Dems need our inner-Tipper Gore back, and it's true.  All these media companies are own by right-wing corporatists, and yet somehow the left gets blamed for the smut, drugs, and sex on TV.

It's FOX that is doing it.

They think they have a voice, they think they are a majority.  Let them.  Let them continue to build a bridge to the 19th Century with stories like these:

We Dems are looking for themes to run nationally, and I think this is one of them.  This is the 21st Century.  We need kids who are educated and prepared for the 21st Century, and REPUBLICANS are trying to roll-back education saying the world is flat.

Here is a choice line:

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