Here's what we do:

1) Keep up with the task of building a new news media, especially a new radio/TV media. Most Americans get their news from radio and TV. If Air America, which is creaming right-wing hate radio in every market it enters, had been created four years ago, it would have grown big enough to tip the scales for us against the regular GOP/Media's constant Bush-shilling.

2) Remember that we did well at the local levels, especially in Minnesota, Colorado and Montana. Use our gains locally to push forth the legislation we can't yet promote nationally: Public financing of elections, mass transit, green transit, etc. (It was the local Republicans' opposition to mass transit that hurt them in Minnesota.)

3) Be willing to stand for something, and stand for it clearly. This wins you respect and votes. A lot of people will vote for someone they disagree with on many issues, so long as they see (or are told by the media to see - which again, is why taking back the media is Job One) that person as steadfast. (That's also how Jesse Ventura got to be governor of Minnesota for four years. Too bad he let his ego get in the way of his brain, because he actually could have been a very good governor.)