FIVE Southern Senate Seats. Our nominee has to help keep them.

[chimpymustgo]

We have to have someone at the top of the ticket who can help us in Senate races around the country - especially in the South, where those seats are highly vulnerable.

As we select our nominee, we must take into consideration everything that is at stake. We could lose the one weapon our Senators have used to block *'s right-wing, LIFE TERM, federal judicial appointments - the power to filibuster.

Over the next four years, 3-4 Supreme Court justices could retire - 2 of them almost immediately.

We're not just settling on a candidate to run for President right now. We are deciding the fate of the Senate, of the judiciary, of the country.

[Aunt Eunice]

1. Edwards is the only one..

..with a chance of helping hold onto to Senate seats in the South. (although his own seat is at risk in NC)

We just love that boy down here.

[chimpymustgo]

2. Edwards might be the one. Or Clark. Or both of them.

A Clark/Edwards or Edwards/Clark ticket could save us.

[gulliver]

4. I agree.

I agree with you that Clark/Edwards would be tremendous in the South.

I think a Clark/Edwards ticket would be strong enough to have coattails, not just in the South but throughout the United States. As presidential material, Clark so far outshines Bush that I think he could develop a wave of national enthusiasm for Democrats. Then, as if the picture of Clark debating Bush isn't encouraging enough, add to it a debate or two between Edwards and Cheney.

[HereSince1628]

3. Well there are 7 northern senate seats too and a handful

that might be called western.

I guess the point is that picking the best candidates for the nation will provide the most support to senatorial candidates regardless of where they are running.

[markus]

5. Coattails dont' count for much

The nominees and their state parties have to keep them, at the end of the day.

[Hep]

6. Name one candidate who has actually and actively raised money for D's

running for office. Name one candidate who has made his entire campaign model FREE to any D that wants to use it? Name on candidate who made a 25,000 dollar donation to the Florida D party.


Dean, Dean, Dean.

[forgethell]

7. I do not like to be a pessimist,

but I don't see any Dem candidate that can help in the South for these Senate seats. Despite the general opinion on this board, Southerners are not stupid, and having been burned twice by southern Democrats (I'm speaking here from what I think is the majority Southern viewpoint, not my own)they will be hesistant to vote for another one. Especially as they have a Southerner (from Texas) running on the Republican side.

The days of split ticket voting are over. But let's say that the Dems can win the WH without a single southern state. There will be payback for the filibusters. No Dem president is going to get liberal judges on any courts from now on. I can see a time when the last surviving federal judge is making all the political decisions for this country.

Well, we have our work cut out for us.