Free Republic

The blood-red electoral map Democrats have been staring at since election night makes one thing clear: If we want to be a majority party again, the only road back runs through the heartland. ...In the red states, it was a bloodbath.... We need a decade-long Heartland Project that will put those states back in play.... • Come to terms with the main reason we lost the red states: Too many Americans doubt whether Democrats will be tough enough in the war on terror.... We need to be the party of... Truman and... Kennedy, not Michael Moore. • Put forward our...