A Democrat Message that resonates

Hullabaloo has this from Hackett: "I don't need Washington to tell me how to live my personal life or how to pray to my God."

This is a frame American's believe in.

Just combine that with some big ticket ideas like "guaranteed health insurance for all Americans" with a foreign policy narrative that refocuses the threats and policy prescription in the proper direction as Matt Yglesias writes about: "If you're genuinely concerned about the security threat posed by terrorism, you need to be primarily concerned about nuclear terrorism." The GOP, not only Bush, has been terrible about keeping nuclear material away from terrorists and don't seem to view it as a threat even if their supporters do.