MoveOn.org had a Virtual Town Hall with the '08 Presidential hopefuls. I wasn't able to participate but all the "videos" and a summary is available on Campaign for America's Future's blog, Common Sense.

I'll be listening to the audio at work today!

From Bill Scher, blogger for the Campaign for America's Future. An interesting post looking at the religion in politics issue from a different perspective.

A good quote:

Lots of ink has been spilled about how Democrats and liberals suffer from a "religion problem" -- a perceived hostility towards Christianity and religion in general. But Pew Research Center exit poll data from the 2006 midterm elections shows the opposite.

Democrats crushed Republicans among secular voters, broadly defined as those who attend church seldom (favoring Democrats 60% to 38%) or never (67% to 30%). Republicans retained strong support among those who attend church more than weekly. But among those who only go weekly -- the larger portion of the religious vote -- the Republican lead shrunk from 15 points to 7.

Read the whole thing here

Great new video from CAF

I know my blogging has been too light these weeks. I have at least two posts in my head and will try to get them out later tonight!

The Campain for America's Future recently hosted an event with Professor Jacob S. Hacker touting his new book The Great Risk Shift.

Hacker's new book, The Great Risk Shift, describes the "assault on American jobs, families, health care and retirement" by corporations eager to off-load costly responsibilities. Beyond analysis, Hacker describes new progressive policies to reverse the great risk shift and forge a new social contract for economic security and opportunity.

Short and great to get the gist of it

For those why are really interested (and you should be) here is the full video of the event.

The co-director of the Campaign for America's Future has a new post up on DailyKos.

When the first woman Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, takes office, it will mark a new day for Congress. Pelosi will drive new rules through the House to help curb the corruptions of the DeLay Congress. She has Democrats prepared to pass her "100 hour program," anchored in bread and butter, common sense issues - raise the minimum wage, halve interest rates on student loans, negotiate lower drug prices, revoke subsides to big oil and invest in renewable energy. A broad range of progressive groups will mobilize across the country to insure this agenda passes to the Senate with public support at its back. This will mark a sea change from the corrupt, corporate lobby-driven agenda of the DeLay congress.

Read the rest here

I haven't posted any "post election" stuff. I spent the night in Rochester watching the election results come in. It was big night of democratic wins for the Rochester area.

For national stuff Bob Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future and Stan Greenberg of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research have a video discussing a poll showing the progressive wins in this election.

The poll, ad examples and the full video from the event at here

From CAF:

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I'll be there will you?

From CAF:

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Yesterday there was an interesting debate put on by the Campaign for America's Future. The discussion was between two leading Democratic thinkers and authors, Gene Sperling and Jeff Faux. The debate was entitled: Defining a Progressive Economic Strategy for America's Future. Gene Sperling was Clinton’s national economic adviser and Jeff Faux was the founder of the Economic Policy Institute.

I was there and found the debate interesting but a bit over my head. I'll let you make your own decisions about their arguments.

Transcript of the debate (PDF)