I just spent over half an hour responding to the DCCC request for feedback and the first point I made was: Encourage the grassroots.  We've proved what they can do right here in Virginia.  Another point, all in caps, was that we have to stop letting the Republicans define the issues and choose their language.  The example I gave was calling the "surge" what it really is, an ESCALATION, and I urged the Democrats to use ESCALATION in every speech, on or off the floors of Congress,  or interview they give.  For far too long we have let the Republicans define the issues and they use language that gives them a head start every time...a classic Rove technique.  There were some other specific agendas  I think we need to address, many of which have been discussed here on RK, such as encouraging biorenewable energy and breaking our dependence on foreign petroleum which handcuffs our foreign policy and is one of the driving forces behind our dangerously ballooning foreign trade deficit, but you all know the issues as well as I do.  I encourage you to respond.  As Rob says, maybe they'll look at them and maybe they won't but if we don't respond the DSCC and all of the other national leadership won't even have the chance to hear what we're thinking and what we want.

Govern as Liberal/Moderate Democrats. Not as extreme left wing Liberals.

with these websites asking for feedback to the DCCC, DLC and other things is they harvest email addresses.  I have answered them in the past and wound up on spam email lists that took extra effort to get unsubscribed from.

I would be a lot more inclined to participate in these kinds of "report cards" if they didn't require an email address to accept my response.

In the meantime I have to wonder if they really pay any attention to the feedback given their apparent purpose to harvest email addresses, or if they're more like those "important surveys" and "petitions" that various pressure groups and NGOs send as junk mail as clumsy covers for fundraising and postal mail address harvesting.  I'm just sayin'.

But then I'm anti-spam like that.  It seems to me it would be a lot more effective to send your feedback to the DCCC in the form of a snail mail letter, without giving them your email address.

Sure, it could just have been a ploy to see if you'd respond but hey, they already HAVE your email address because you got the original questionaire.  The first time I get hinky email I just designate subsequent mail from that address  as spam to my provider and it automatically goes to my spam box, to be deleted en masse with the offers for eternal life, stunning beauty and money from Nigeria.  On the off chance that someone from the DCCC might actually want some feedback, I gave 'em an earful.  What could it hurt?

Actually no, they don't have me on their email list, and I'd like to keep it that way. 

My provider allows 4 email addresses. We have 3 email addresses, but my daughter has her own with someone else, so I am using her old one for all these people who want an email address. I will just let the box fill up till it over flows, I empty it on the computer I have it sent too, or they are rejected by the provider.