http://www.vicfingerhut.com/wordpress Advisories Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:40:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     TO:           Democratic Leadership and All Democrats FROM:       Vic Fingerhut SUBJ:         Political Positioning (and Messaging) on the Jobs Issue for Democrats (as Independents and Swing Voters Desert Our Side in Droves)** DATE:        December 2009   ** Two days after this was written, the AP released a poll showing that, for ... http://www.vicfingerhut.com/wordpress/?p=13     A “Transformative” Election?   By Vic Fingerhut    The journalistic coverage of past days has been flooded with commentary describing the 2008 presidential election as “transformative.”  The meaning attributed to that term has been varied, and quite frankly, often obscure and garbled. Most widely, the “transformative” aspect has been interpreted to underline the historical uniqueness, ... http://www.vicfingerhut.com/wordpress/?p=11 (Updated May 2008)  Don't Ignore Democratic strengths, particularly among the swing voters you need to win in 2008. While so much of the attention of Democrats in Congress (and elsewhere) is focused (rightly or wrongly) on the War in Iraq, the simple fact of the matter is that the critical swing voters ... http://www.vicfingerhut.com/wordpress/?p=8