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The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking

The indispensable handbook for Democrats

Voters cast their ballots for what they believe is right, for the things that make moral sense. Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection clearly and forcefully, with hands-on advice for discussing the most pressing issues of our time: the economy, health care, women’s issues, energy and environmental policy, education, food policy, and more. Dissecting the ways that extreme conservative positions have permeated political discourse, Lakoff and Wehling show how to fight back on moral grounds and in concrete terms. Revelatory, passionate, and deeply practical, The Little Blue Book will forever alter the way Democrats and progressives think and talk about politics.

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Demographic projections taken from Texas State Data Center's 2008 population projections

Linda Chavez-Thompson, Democratic nominee for Texas Lieutenant Governor had a few choice words on Governor Rick Perry's strategy to bring Hispanic voters to the Republican Party. 

"You can stuff a jalapeño pepper in a pig, but that doesn't make it a chorizo."