<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>This is the problem with one party states, the elected officials really aren't required to address many of the issues facing Idahoans because they face no real challengers so they do what they want to do. </DIV>
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<DIV>Democrats blew a good opportunity this election cycle to pick up a lot of seats, increase political competitiveness, and advance its agenda, by only offering weak or equally corrupted challengers, or allowing seats to go completely uncontested. </DIV>
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<DIV>Democrats should contest EVERY seat. It should nominate more qualified people and concentrate on the issues that are of concern to Idahoans.</DIV>
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<DIV>Honestly, the fact that Bill Sali will win reelection, is total testament to the reality that the Idaho Democratic Party is totally incompetent and disorganized. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 11/3/08, Ralph Nielsen <I><nielsen@uidaho.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen@uidaho.edu><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Idaho Republicans have neglected the real issues<BR>To: "vision 2020" <Vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 9:44 PM<BR><BR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 13px; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Geneva" face=Geneva size=3>Idaho Republicans have neglected the real issues<BR><BR>On Nov. 4, Idahoans will go to the polls and overwhelmingly vote for John McCain and "Snow Job Square Glasses" (Sarah Palin), despite the abject failure of Republican economic policies. Perhaps Idaho's Republicans can be excused for their collective inattention - their focus has been on other, more pressing conservative issues.<BR><BR>While mortgage salesmen packaged bad loans, Idaho Republicans moved to ban gay marriage.<BR><BR>While Wall Street financiers concocted complex credit swaps, Idaho Republicans rallied to keep the Ten Commandments monument in a Boise park.<BR><BR>While investment firms piled debt upon debt, Idaho Republicans cheered on local proselytizers who used a media stunt to intrude their religion in China.<BR><BR>While foreign banks continued to buy America's debt, Idaho
Republicans loudly insisted they were opposed to patriotic taxes to pay for their wars and their warfare state.<BR><BR>While right-wing talk shows regularly assailed an imagined socialist conspiracy, Idaho Republicans were relieved when their man, George W. Bush, began nationalizing the economy.<BR><BR>Henry David Thoreau must have been thinking of Republicans and <SPAN><SPAN>religionists</SPAN></SPAN> when he wrote: "There is no creed so false but faith can make it true."<BR><BR>GARY L. BENNETT [A Goldwater Republican, in a letter to the Idaho Statesman, Boise]</FONT><FONT style="FONT: 13px Arial" face=Arial size=4><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV><PRE>=======================================================
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