Visitors to the Central Market during months before the 2008 presidential elections were greeted by a table of volunteers providing Barack Obama campaign materials, selling front yard signage, and registering voters. There was electricity in the air as market customers were asked if they were registered and urged to vote on Election Day.
Lawns and streets were festooned with Obama signs and those of other Democrat candidates.
While county Republicans are currently taking victory laps and celebrating the anticipated victory among themselves, confident in their suburban and rural support, the local Democrats are no more conspicuous than the Green Party and Libertarians.
Hardly seems like fair treatment of a president that has shown such courage in espousing health care reform, who has prevented a second Great Depression, and is seeking to bring back the notion that our government exists to help all of the people, not to be the hand maiden of those who benefit from and often exploit government contracts and tax loop holes.
Perhaps the Lancaster Democratic Party consists of only multi-millionaires, so they are perfectly content to lose the senate and gubernatorial campaigns as they sip lattes at Starbucks.
I happen to think it speaks VOLUMES and is a very fair treatment of the President and his policies. Remember the ‘budget deficit’ that he so often blames on the previous administration was due to a Democratic controlled Congress, the jury is still way out on the Obamacare health plan, both parties are guilty of exploitation.
The heart and soul of the Lancaster Democratic Party is working people like myself. We don’t have access to virtually unlimited funds from wealthy donors and special interests like the Republican party does. We don’t waste time on frivolous premature “victory laps”; instead, we concentrate our efforts on contacting tens of thousands of people by reaching out to them one at a time.
I participated in a recent door-to-door canvas, and found widespread support for Democratic candidates.