"Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016" - Vote/Submit ideas HERE http://thinkbig.us/

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Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016
12/10/14

The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters. Now they have a new plan to win—with or without Hillary Clinton.

For progressives, the waning days of 2014 should be as dark a moment as their movement has faced since 2004.

...“Democrats lost in 2014 because they failed to have a big, bold economic message that tangibly impacts people’s lives,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “People didn’t wake up on Election Day with a reason to vote.”

To remedy that, Green and the PCCC are launching a new initiative designed to grab the agenda and drag the party leftward in the run-up to the 2016 election. On Wednesday morning, the group is announcing a plan to solicit what it is calling its “Big Ideas Project” with a new website, ThinkBig.Us, that will invite elected officials, policy experts, and the general public to submit and vote on the ideas they want to see the Democratic Party take control of next.

Thirty members of Congress, including Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, have agreed to review the proposals once they are complete.

“There is a hunger for big ideas,” said Green. “The last election, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent saying, ‘Vote against Republicans because they will do something bad,’ as opposed to offering any governing vision on what we do.”...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/10/progressives-big-ideas-will-win-us-2016.html

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