Well lookee here--seems the Democrats are actually playing some offense in preparation for next year's elections (and after the disaster that is the Obamacare rollout, they probably should be):
- Pro-choice Democrats in the Senate are going to put forth a bill tomorrow aimed at state laws that have been chipping away at abortion rights. It has no chance of passing, but it's a signal to pro-choice women that we're not only going to defend them, we're going to fight for them as well.
- Since 76% of Americans favor raising the mimimum wage, Democrats are fighting in 2014 battleground states to get minimum wage increases on the ballot. Good policy and good politics.
I'm still not holding out a lot of hope for 2014 (even though we won the Governor's race in Virginia, our base didn't turnout any better in Virginia than they usually do for non-Presidential election years) but at least by being true to our party's ideals we're giving ourselves a shot at controlling the damage.
Peace,
emaycee
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