Democratic Values - How to start winning the red states. By William Saletan

Community, Opportunity, Responsibility? We've heard this before. Will it work again? I'm not sure that the future is with this method, although the alternatives sound far worse. These CORe values do make a lot of sense. It's difficult to see this message working in the current political landscape though. Dems need to get more Southern, although in the end there will not be too many left. When I was at school there was talk of a dealignment rather than a realignment of the South. In the end, this theory is turning out to be false. The realignment has finished. Not many Zell Millers or Seligmans left.

Governors from the South that are super charismatic/smart. I wonder if Clinton would/could have won this one too? It'd be hell of a lot closer? Maybe not and Bush probably would have still won.