Pan and Will...I do admire your idealism, but I firmly believe you will be disappointed with the results. As Host noted earlier, politics is the "art of the possible" and 200+ years of US political history reinforces that perception as reality.
But we will gladly take you back to the party of your roots when your bubble is burst again, even though I think your decision to bail rather than work from within is misguided and short-sighted.
In the meantime, we'll focus on the fixes that are needed for the Democratic Party and welcome the many new young voters that are leaning decidedly Democratic.
Exit polling from last November's elections indicated that younger voters -- those age 18 to 29 -- were more likely than any other age group to vote for Democrats, backing Democratic House candidates over GOP candidates by a whopping 60 percent to 38 percent margin (up from 55 percent to 44 percent in the 2004 House elections). Subsequent polling undertaken by Pew back in January also indicated a decidedly Democratic and progressive lean to the group they labeled as "generation next." And now a new survey (.pdf) commissioned by The New York Times, CBS News and MTV finds that younger voters look a lot more Democratic and progressive than the electorate as a whole.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/6/26/23587/3754