There are obvious votes, and then there are tough ones.
I believe the best course of action is to promote pragmatic solutions, even though they might not make the fringes happy.
With that come give and take, some cajoling, and (forbid) some horse-trading. At some point, however, nsx is right: the really good solutions don't really need to be "pitched" (per se), and the idea is to try to arrive at those.
Spending time getting to know my fellow Talkboard members is probably the best course of action one can take, so it makes the task of coming up with solutions that are palatable to them (or the requisite majority thereof) is probably the best move.