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Josh,

While I understand some of your points, I read the Goldberg piece recently and thought it contained a lot of good things.

I live in Minnesota and find some of the sentiments expressed by Midwesterners in the piece reflective of what Goldberg is getting at. There is a feeling of pragmatism that needs to come through on many issues in the middle states if the Dems want to take charge. If the Dems are doing some of the things you indicate, they need to build it into a message for MN and other areas that comes across clearly and not just as Bush-bashing. I am a media savvy person – more so than most around me (after all, I read TPM) – and I think the party can do a better job with moderates and “Regan Democrates” here. It is not so much what they are doing as how they are sounding and what’s getting across to voters.

-RLS

Most of the other responses have been more in line with my thoughts. But I'll try to run a few other representative responses.