I'm watching MSNBC right now. Or not really watching, but it's on in the background as I'm working on my laptop.
The anchor goes live to a town hall in Wisconsin with Chelsea Clinton, where she is taking questions at Marquette University.
This diary isn't intended as a research document or finished product, just a springboard for ideas and vehicle to reconcile dueling thoughts.
After several spirited threads, a few ideas have crystallized for me. The overriding theme seems to be that any Democratic nominating process should, in my opinion, value a few complementary and competing key principles:
Now, in more depth, here's how I see each respective value currently represented in this cycle's process:
· IA-Gov: GOP rival pins health care reform on Branstad (desmoinesdem)
· Which House Democrat should get Blue America's first endorsement? (desmoinesdem)
· It's Time To Close The Terror Gap (Cliff Schecter)
· "The Conspiracy to Kill the New Deal" (desmoinesdem)
· Blanche Lincoln's website supports public option (desmoinesdem)
· Big Coal's PR Spending Spree (desmoinesdem)
· IA-03: Former college wrestling coach to challenge Boswell (desmoinesdem)
· Tea Baggers Target Gore... (Cliff Schecter)
· Stimulus Watch (Jerome Armstrong)
· CREW seeks ethics inquiry of Bachmann (desmoinesdem)
· Did IRC help? (MN Campaign Report)
· 5 Worst cities for urban youth (desmoinesdem)