Great, and if Local Town Committees want to be relevant, they will have to broaden their reach and include issues other than electing whomever wins the Democratic Primaries.  For instance, our local Town Democratic Committee often expressed an interest in attracting younger people.  When a Town over-ride election came up, which many young families supported.  to avoid the lay-off of 60 teachers and other Town employees, the local Party Committee would not support the Over-ride.  Many young people worked on this election (It passed) and the local Party missed an opportunity to recruit new members.  This may sound like only a local issue, but for the Party to become relevant to more than a small dedicated group of political activists, it needs to embrace a much wider agenda, and support issues that matter to the majority of people.

I'm just wondering...have the last 5 speakers of the house left jail yet...Just want to make sure they get a chance to vote for the tax-"machine" in June. That's the only machine I blame. Keep your neighbors talking and keep the descenting vote down. God forbid you might learn something from someone who doesn't think like you.

I have a saying on my mantle that reads The Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise.  It is a non-partisan message.  It applies to anyone, in any Party. Abusers like DiMasi and Finneran should be punished and they were. Kitchener and friends write as though there is some broad agreement among Democrats to support corruption.  Bull!  Chairman Walsh did not discover the ground game but he has pushed it from 2005 on and he has been right.  I have made a choice in the primary but I heard the other guy speak last week and I was impressed.  If Dems can talk to each other and seek to persuade without anger or resentmen, then Mr. Walsh will be right…again.  We will have a primary.  We should make it a good one.

Markey and Lynch is the high end of the pool?

Worthy read (even for source snobs):http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/temporary-majority_700500.html

If you are so deep, why are the states dominated by red?

Asking why the states are dominated by red is like asking why the majority of the population is dominated by blue.  It is ignoring the obvious.  The question one should ask is why the south is dominated by red and the north by blue.  Why is the highly educated segment of the population dominated by blue and white working class by red.  Why is the religious leaning dominated by red and the secular by blue.

The question is one of why are segments of the population by certain viewpoints.  That question is pretty much self-explanatory and pretty easy to see. 

"Be" I don't like being included in either color.  You seem to prefer red, that's company I'd rather not keep nor be associated with and would think neither would you.

bostonsheppard said it best.  

"We truly have crossed the Rubicon, where the political elite and the public employee unions have created an insurmountable patronage-driven, taxpayer-financed political feedback-machine. Too many paychecks now are printed by this system for elections to matter."

we elect a congressman every two years, a senator every six. let's try to get it right and choose one who cares for the majority, not his/her individual agenda. I like Steve Lynch, an everyman's congressman who toes the people's and not the party's line!