Lately I have read report after report on Daily Kos about gerrymandering and Democratic politicians retiring because their old districts are now bright red, they can no longer win, so they are moving on.
Not so fast: Let’s not give up on red districts! Sure, popular wisdom says the GOP owns the white suburbs. Maybe that has been true, but IS that true? Women are LIVID at the assault on our long-held reproductive rights. Pundits claimed that Democrats would not do well in the mid-terms; Democrats DID do well in the mid-terms. So we canNOT give up now. We need candidates for Congress in every district, including the reddest of the red. Make reproductive rights THE issue. For other wedge issues brought up by the GOP, listen to concerns and then make sure voters hear the truth versus the GOP lies. We can win far more than we lose. This is not an investment that makes sense every election, but it sure does this time as more and more horror stories come out of the anti-abortion states. Now is the time to take back the suburbs!
