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Porchwise said...

Both parties know that the middle class has always been the buffer between the elites and the poor. The problem is that buffer is slowly eroding as the middle class gets squeezed out and when that buffer becomes too weak then the poor and the middle class join to revolt against the elitist (the one percent who control the money/big oil, big government and profiteering corporations). In their haste to control the world, the ultra-conservatives usurp and/or underfund ALL social programs and there is where the main difference between the parties lie. Big Money Democrats (the money lies on both sides of the elitist fence) are smart enough to know this historical fact. Republicans only view history as what manipulations worked and what didn't.

True and if they aren't careful, the same will happen to them that happened to the Democrats a few elections ago, there will be a wholesale turn over of power in Congress. That is if the Democrats can come up with some pretty strong and influential candidates. The Problem Kerry had, was he came off as a elitist. One thing Clinton had that Kerry didn't, Clinton said in his first campaign, that he was a "bubba." A pick up driving, gun rack in the back bubba. That's what made all the middle and lower class people vote for him. I mean he played sax on Arsenio Hall's show. When Kerry was campaigning, you had to have a thesaurus to understand him.
He spoke over everyone's head. You can't get the common citizen to vote for you if they can't understand you.

John Edwards would have been a better choice but he was relatively new to politics. Had he been better known, he would have won. He had the people skills and the "down home" personality. The same kind of personality that one of our former Presidents had, John Kennedy.