Western Kansas Democrat profiled by LA Times

An article titled "Behind Enemy Lines" compares the efforts of two Party operatives working some remarkably tough turf.

Jacqueline Bujanda is a Democrat working rural western Kansas, James Fullmer is a Republican in Berkley, California. The ideological juxtaposition alone is enough to make this story an entertaining read, but it also reveals a few clues to why Democrats won in 2006, and will continue to win in the future.

While Fullmer appears to be little more than a another hyperbolic College Republican that thrives on ideological warfare and assailing "Liberals", Bujanda and the Democrats, on the other hand, are working hard to court new voters.

Bujanda now thinks her best chances lie not in the area's old guard, but with the Latino newcomers. Here, she reasoned, was an untapped voter base.

Bujanda wants to enlist 1,500 new Latino voters. ...

As the morning shift left a local Tyson plant, she collected signatures from Asians, Indians, blacks and Latinos who hurried to their cars. One woman slipped her a phone number, promising to help her rally more support.

Democrats are building a new base of voters as conservative Republicans seem unable to move their Party past petty character attacks and negitive campaigning.