we need to retake the money issue - the democrats have done a good job of framing the 2010 election as being bought by corporate or foreign $ - yes the electorate is just dumb enough to believe that.
and we need to find a way to neutralize Union intervention somehow. just a killer...
You can start with that in Iowa, where your outgoing 'rat gov just gifted AFSCME with a nice pay raise.
That sort of crap is just simply an outrage. If any pol did something like giving a big business supporter a payoff like that before bowing out, he'd be lawyering up and preparing to take the 5th in legislative hearings as soon as the new legislature took over. But democrat corruptocrats do that kind of s**t regularly for the unions that own them and Iowa voters accept it as business as usual.