Speaking out to the middle | by GlennM
So I have a new friend that's on the fence between the parties. She wants to think of herself as a Republican, but is fairly pissed off at Bush right now. To the point that she's having a hard time remembering what she liked about him before.
Part of the reasons she's apolitical is her job (she works for the state) and gets enough politics at work. But she also feels like neither side is speaking to her. She's pro death penalty, and also pro choice, pro gay marriage, pro social services, etc. So mostly Democratic on the issues except for the death penalty. Since she gets to see the results of murders, she'd rather folks focus on how to reduce the murder rate than worry about what happens to criminals after they're convicted.
As for Iraq, the question is now how do we get out of it. Instead of bitching about who screwed it up, she wants to hear about how we're going to get it fixed.
For all the talk about the "apolitical folks that don't know politics could help them", there may be other issue-based folks that are just feeling left out of the conversation. Or just turned off by the finger-pointing instead of doing the "hard work" to get to solutions.