An Open Letter to the Democratic Party
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First, I'd like to say congratulations. Prior to last night, I had been only cautiously optimistic about your chances of taking the House. As of the time I am writing this, you are on the cusp of taking senate as well. In the world of politics, expectations are as real as the raw numbers, and you have certainly exceeded mine and many others. A quick scan of the over-dramatic flailing on conservative blogs and the despondent tone of Fox News fills me and many others with a profound sense of schadenfreude.  Enjoy your victory, but enjoy it quickly. For tomorrow you inherit the corn-flecked shit sandwich currently known as our government. Here are some things you can do to further redeem yourselves in our eyes...
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Memo to the Democratic presidential candidates: You can still beat Hillary Rodham Clinton, but you better act fast.
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For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival. She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.
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Former President Bill Clinton urges Democrats not to &quot;whine&quot; over the election, to be encouraged and to find a clear national message.
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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, Sept.
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At least eight people are vying to hold a job crucial to the Democrats' future direction.
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Rallying a party stung by presidential and congressional losses, the incoming Senate Democratic leader reminded fellow lawmakers on Saturday of their shared commitment to help the nation.
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Every few years someone sounds a death knell over the Democratic Party, political analyst Norm Ornstein wearily noted, and it&#39;s just about then that the party of Jefferson and Madison resurrects itself yet again.
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To the editor:  In response to John L. Smith's Tuesday column on Gov.
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I like politics. I follow it the way some people follow sports. The Democrat Party     and Republican Party are major league teams. They battle each other in national, state and     local contests. They have mascots, both created by the same person.     They have fanatical supporters just like any sport. Like minor league teams, there are also minor political parties to watch that sometimes play spoiler and sometimes     gain enough strength to influence the major parties. Some operate only locally, some statewide, and some try to operate     nationally.    I also enjoy following individual personalities. People love and hate them like they love and hate sports teams and athletes.     I'm sometimes startled by the degree of blind adoration or blind rage that politicians can inspire in otherwise calm,     rational people.    Lately, I've noticed that there's a growing tendency to divide the United States into red states and blue states. People seem     to think that it's possible for an entire state to be Democrat or Republican. How can that be if it's difficult to even     categorize individual Americans into definite camps? Now, although once restricted to politics, the idea is spreading to     other arenas. I saw a suggestion that Hollywood start targetting states as red or blue audiences. I've seen statistics that     compare red states versus blue states on categories such as religion, income, and even gifts to charity.    The division of the United States into red and blue states is overly simplistic and misleading.
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Drew Westen, a professor of psychology at Emory University, argues that the Democratic Party should, for the most part, focus on feelings, not issues or facts.
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The Republican National Committee launches a new anti-Democrat Valentine's Day viral marketing campaign. What better way to say I love you than to send someone an e-card making fun of Obama or Clinton, and get them added to the GOP's mailing database?
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Democrats are encountering a mixture of resistance and retreat from abortion rights advocates in their own party.
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The party is headed for the most wide-open nomination fight since Wendell Willkie. You remember him
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&quot;This is a great day for democracy. This has always been about voters. A real victory for the little guy in the state.&quot; - Paul Berendt, state Democratic Party chairman.
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Outpolled, outmaneuvered and out of power, Democrats are suffering an identity crisis.
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Text of a statement released Saturday by Democrat Barack Obama after the Nevada caucuses: