Over at Running Scared they ask the question What Issues Do We Tackle?, among other questions. I think they are missing one question that's essential--where do we tackle them? Conservatives have made it very difficult to work at the federal level, and most of their gains of the last 20 years have really been at the state and non-metropolitan local level. This is where we have to do the work, and it's another reason why I think that the WalMart decision in Maryland was brilliant.