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I am worried that Democrats will stray too far to the right. They have been moving to the right for years now. Even Kerry had some elements that were FAR too socially conservative - such as his personal anti-gay marriage belief.
Whether they know it was not a mandate is irrelevent to the fact that liberals did not vote enough to deal with the social conservatives. The suggestions have been that liberals need to adjust their message to make the social conservatives feel more comfortable with the liberals. Adjusting the message either means lying, because it is quite evident that liberals and social conservatives greatly differ in their intentions and desires, or the sacrifice of the philosophy of the liberal.
The former will just fail come next election, the latter is the destruction of the liberals.
Reach out does indeed mean adopt the Republican platform - in either word or deed.
As for sources, I have seen Atrios talk to this modifying the message to appeal, Kos, Salon. There are a number of highly visible liberal organizations speaking about their perception of this need to gain acceptance in the social conservative community. And there are a number of members of this forum which are doing the same.
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