West Virginia going to be overflowing with infrastructure and shiny spiffed-up military bases.
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The most important thing they can do is pass voting rights legislation, and I donât know that they can do it at 50/50. The second most important thing they can do is pass health care reform, which they have no chance of doing at 50/50. The third most important thing they can do is fix the judiciary, which they have no chance of doing at 50/50 (although they could actually get some Federal judges confirmed). I could go on but while it would be way better than the alternative a 50/50 Senate isnât passing generational legislation.
Swearingin is a terrible candidate, so I donât think itâs fair to use her to represent the whole movement.
I donât know if comparing Eastman to Biden is fair either, given the nature of this election, but itâs more reasonable than focusing on Swearingin. Also donât think comparing a blue wave from 2018 to this one is fair.
Look at all the swing districts, how did moderates do and how did progressives do? Iâm trusting AOC on this, tbh, I havenât had time to look.
Yeah like how the fuck is this ok? Imagine if a progressive did that.
Please list the groups hurt by Biden worse than they were hurt by Trump.
Biden did better than the blue wave in 18 nationally, dems did worse congressionally due to many of the 18 flips being in red districts and red turnout got them back.
I was told repeatedly if we only ran a prog weâd get all these votes and win easily and they donât over and over and over and of course the responses are nothing but excuses. Bullshit and pathetic. No excuses, do better.
The popular vote margin in '18 was 8.6, Biden did not do better.
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EC he did, ironically I guess. I did the math back then 18 was only by a state.
Pretty sure this is also wrong. I remember maps showing domination by Dems in the EC if they repeated their midterm performance.
ETA: Found one.
I agree with the sentiment of that Sam Harris tweet. My question would be: when he speaks of a firehose of bullshit thatâs been sprayed at our fellow Americans, is he including within that stream of bullshit people that bring the likes of Charles Murray and Douglas Murray on podcasts and then asks them zero tough questions?
I mean, I donât expect trust fund kids like Harris to have good politics, even if they are good at meditation. But someone that pals around with, and pretends that Ben Shapiro is some kind of intellectual, well that sounds like a guy that was holding the firehose while it was spraying the BS rather than trying to turn the hose off.
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This doesnât look all that different from what the final map will be.
Lose Florida, Iowa and ME-02. Gain Georgia and NE-02 (EDIT: and AZ). Not that drastic a change.
Also gain AZ (maybe?) from that map. But the margins were better in â18 too. I remember some positive feels looking at maps where Dems won by at least 5 in 2018. Itâs apples and oranges anyway, but itâs not credible to say Biden outperformed the â18 wave overall.
Iâll stop poking the bear on this I promise. But this is the perfect illustration of what I was trying to say. Now just imagine if some slick well-funded astroturfing org worked hard to plant this idea in extreme righty or lefty corners of the web - depending on which side they want to win. The astroturfers would probably need to have the seed of the idea already there - which it certainly is. But they could certainly amplify it.
Yes Iâm paranoid.
Comparing Bradshaw to Bredesen is lol. Bradshaw is a complete unknown with no money. Bredesen was a former governor (who was pretty popular while in office) with a ton of fundraising
BTW lets all laugh at Collin Peterson, soon to be former congressman from MN-7. Had been there since 1991. Probably the all around reddest Democrat in the house for years and years, mostly notable for being one of the two Dems to vote against the impeachment of our favorite President.
He lost by 15 points to some trumper woman.
Nice work dipshit.
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They seriously claimed florida blue for that map in 2018 when Gillum/Nelson both lost that year lmao. Garbage.
Also that year Iowa gov went red when it was polling blue too, Iâm certain it wouldâve gone red as well. assuming GA/AZ red like I thought they were that makes the EC 279-259 which is a one state difference as I stated. I realize people think I just make claims sometimes but some of that is as a result of my own work.
Welp, welcome back to Congress, Darrell Issa.
We havenât conceded yet, but the writing is on the wall.
Let me just vent about how much I hate the DCCC and how underhanded and yes, racist/anti-semitic they are. They promised our campaign $2million. Instead they gave us nothing, and gave that $2m to Georgette Gomez, who ended up losing her dem v. dem race vs. a Jewish woman by 20 fucking points.
Also, back in 2018, A DCCC member was the one who leaked the story of Ammarâs grandfather to Haaretz, which started the whole âAmmar is a terroristâ thing. They did this because they insisted that the white Navy SEAL that ran in the primary in 2018 would have easily won.
Not sure if you recall when Valerie Plame ran? Sheâs Jewish. This âdark moneyâ ad ran and sank her campaign. Guess who actually funded that? YepâŚthe fucking DCCC
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/22/dark-money-group-smears-valerie-plame-with-white-supremacist-label/
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The DCCC sucking balls is also a problem that we probably canât fix anytime soon
I donât know how we could beat a triple threat of R+12 registration, Darrell Issaâs money, and fucking Trump actually calling out Ammar by name and implying heâs a terrorist. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib only had to deal with one of those things.
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btw, Biden significantly outran Omar in her own district.
progs also primaried two dem incumbents in NM state senate races in 2 swing districts and lost both
I really donât have interest in looking the rest of it up, and Iâm sure some here will have some excuses for those things like everything else but really I donât want to hear any excuses now from progs, e-dems, and everyone else, itâs time to figure out how to take the damn senate and those house races back in 2022 but I will say to progsâif youâre gonna primary a dem be sure youâre gonna win the thing in the general first or gtfo.
sucks about losing to Issa, but I knew that was gone when I saw nprâs list and every tossup rating Râs won and your race was still to right of that list. Spoiler alert, Râs won all those too.
tl;dr Itâs really hard to win +R districts when trump is running cause he turns them out.
Iâm not gonna lie, we made mistakes too. Ammar made one and owned up to it, and there are areas of the campaign I would have done differently, but I was brought in so late (because no money) that it was hard to affect that change. Weâre still doing post-mortems, and I have a long memo to write, but Iâm sure we were winning until Issa called up his buddy Trump and had him lie about Ammar by name.
Thatâs when it became Ammar vs. Trump, and that was impossible to beat.
Bottom line: the democrats need a strong, NATIONAL message to counter the âsocialism!â claims.
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