On Dem election strategy...
It's essentially the republican strategy - kick up dust over an ephemeral concept like "foreign," "not like us," or "extremist." As far as a tactic goes, it's low-brow, feeble, and embarrassing to its practitioners.
This is why Obama is such a colossal failure. By adopting a clear set of legislative priorities (he does during election and then promptly flushes them away at first opportunity) and continuously promoting them in public, a differentiation between Dems and republicans can be drawn. But Obama is a champion of austerity and proposed Social Security cuts - so where is the line between the leader of the Dem Party and repubs?!
Sadly, Dems in Congress, with rare exceptions, are cowed by Obama and won't step up to define what a Dem platform is, why the planks are vital (how people are helped), and how critical it is to move the platform forward.
A strong House takeover strategy would be to compare the actions of the repubs in the House versus a clear, consistent, data-supported Dem platform. But too few in the Party want to have the honest debate about economic policy, so the best the public gets is "fiscal cliff" buzzword tap-dances around the real issues.
So the campaign they're left with - the one they're apparently now looking to champion - is merely going to devolve already awful campaigns into a humiliating shouting match featuring "[Obama/republicans] are extremist and bad!" I'd rather see best of 3 falls in an open sewer.
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