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Entrenched out of touch political groups lose touch with people and then lose elections. Goldwater shook up the Republican liberals. Ross Perot then hit the GOP again from a different place. Hillary Clinton suffered it twice first from Barak Obama and then Donald Trump. Clive Palmer is shaking the tree in Australia. He swung the 2019 election from the Australian Labor Party's Union heavyweight to proud Christian Scott Morrison. In 2022 he is giving non political young libertarians like Becky Spelman a chance to compete. This looks good to me.

Their party was out of ideas and out of office. It had grown preposterously out of touch, a caricature of economic irresponsibility and elite, Washington-dinner-party values. Then along came Bill Clinton to return Democrats to the political center and teach them how to win. For the party seared by McGovern, Carter, Mondale, and Dukakis, the birth of the "New Democrat" in 1991 was a renaissance. Clinton was not afraid to march over the traditionally Republican ground of tax cuts, deficit reduction, and welfare reform to advance the Democratic party from its Dark Ages. In its founding documents, the Clinton-inspired Democratic...

Some of the personnel stumbles of the Obama administration -- including the abortive nomination of Bill Richardson as commerce secretary -- resulted from incompetent vetting. William Lynn's reception as deputy secretary of defense has been complicated by hypocrisy -- the administration's attempt to gain political credit for a restrictive lobbying ban it swiftly violated to get a qualified appointee. But one major personnel error was made from malice. And it calls into question the depth and duration of President Obama's "new politics." During Obama's transition, Dr. Mark Dybul was initially asked to stay on as the coordinator of the President's...

With all of the threads on books and hit pieces attempting to 'split' the conservative base, such as David Kuo's new book claiming that President Bush makes fun of Christians, I felt it was important to put this into the context of the Democrat's political strategy. This video is from New Politics, a DNC marketing group. This outlines how to quickly publish progressive political books (see, right before the election) and how to use viral market strategy to get the word out. http://www.newpolitics.net/content_areas/videos/?series=108 Specifically, focus on the areas regarding marketing and how these books can be used to influence the...