based on that profile, that demographic profile, and t( whatever research you have done on electoral issues, what are e1 you seeing as the most powerful1 message that democrats have going into the 2012 campaign season. what are democrats g q strongest running on?jf xdt(ok strongest running on, it is time for this economy to work for the áus, not the 1%, not the t(fá ho don t pay their taxes.e1 not the ceos and not the corporations that take our jobsd overseas and our money to the cayman islands. on the issue of the republican race against ok president obama, his re-electio1 race, anything could happen. so i don t want to say that mitt romney s going to be the nominee, but mitt romney s going to be the nominee. i think you re right. and when i talked to fá democrats about that, and particularly when i talked to washington democrats about that, i keep hearing pushback from romney, as a flip-flopper, is aá
time, really become a frontline war in reproductive right& and i think the good news, fromi my point of view, is that the áqp&ly been ripped away from these right-wing organizations that keep talking1 about abortion and keep talking as if all they want to do is baó abortion, when, in fact, they are interested in banning abortion and birth control.8ñ aboright wing in washington,t( d.c., about defunding the title ten family planning clinics, it s not just banning abortion and birth control, it s std okwá screening, it s mammograms and cervical cancer screenings. it s the entire range of reproductive health care that women really need. i think what we re seeing now is the proof, and the mississippi personhood amendment fight, i think, really revealed this, çó that what is at stakm zs whether women will have control over their own sexuality.e1 this withholding hew,rh care from women who are8
democrats promising a recount effort in a deciding race where the sides are only about 200 votes apart right now.e1 even as the question of who controls the virginia senate remains unsettled, one thing is sure from last night s results. virginia is getting its first-ever openly gay state senator. a democral@fi=5 ájj)q)n part of the state. turns out last night was fá generally a big night for gay candidates and causes.e1 the cities of indianapolis and carolina, ar,$tu their first-ever openly gay city counselors, as did cincinnati, d cincinnati, ohio, where the cit1 charter was once amended to makk cleaszthat it is a-okay in cincinnati to discriminate e1 against people for being gay. the councilman elected last night in cincinnati had been instrumental in repealing that.p the mayor of houston, texas, annise parker, is also openly gay. she won a second term yesterday1 despite ads against her like this one.t(fá oh, no, if she s re-elected, this might happen! also, this drag queen may ap