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Yeah. This is what I meant when I rhetorically asked Nancy Pelosi how her strategy worked in the general, last night. Some people got testy because Joe Biden had a good run. But genuflecting towards the center cost us seats. https://twitter.com/RoadsForPaula/status/1324425841351237633
Poll after poll reveals that the American people are farther left than either party, and farther left than either party believes them to be.
The fact that it's really easy to get the right (including the right-leaning portion of the Mild Moderate Middle) to turn out and vote against anything you call "SOCIALISM!" doesn't change that.
But we're not going to win those votes. We're not competing for those votes. The votes we're competing for are the people left of the center, who are far more numerous, and who are everywhere, and who just want to hear something worth voting for.
I don't know why everyone responds to this kind of talk by acting like anyone suggested every candidate run the exact same race. I didn't suggest AOC run in a rural Wisconsin district. So what am I supposed to respond to here? https://twitter.com/jack_608/status/1324740783581372417
We don't have to take every district to take statehouses and to get/grow/build/keep national majorities. And if some of those districts wind up with Blue Dogs who contribute nothing except keeping the gavel away from people like McCarthy and McConnell, so be it.
"Red district" is conceding territory before the race was run. The GOP doesn't think there's any blue territory, only red places that are temporarily misbehaving. They want all the marbles. I want them, too.
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https://twitter.com/DawgsWillHunt/status/1324742113737596928
When you say the moderates lost because they were in recently red districts, what you mean is: they couldn't turn out enough people to beat the Republican turnout.
Might they have done better with a different pitch? We can't know for sure, but we know they didn't win with the pitch they used.
If we follow a national strategy of shifting towards the center (which means, to the right) in order to try to protect moderates in vulnerable seats, candidates in those "solid blue districts" lose their appeal, and the GOP sees an opening, and will flood into that crack.
Let the moderates run as moderates. I'm not saying let AOC dictate every candidate's platform. Let the people on the ground in the district get the lay of the land and run the campaign they think is necessary to win, sure.
But if our strategy for getting the majority is to not let anyone anywhere run on anything that offends the GOP, we won't beat the GOP.
And if we do, it won't matter, because we ran on their platform.
And if we do, it won't matter, because we ran on their platform.
We had eight years under President Obama of seeing what it looks like when we "meet the GOP in the middle". We come off our starting position before we start. They stand pat. We move towards them. They take two steps to the right.
The Affordable Care Act was their policy ideas. They wouldn't vote for it.
Merrick Garland was their pick. They wouldn't give him a hearing.
Merrick Garland was their pick. They wouldn't give him a hearing.
Democrats can move so far to the center that they are now standing where the Republicans began, and the Republicans have ran a country mile to the hard right and are getting the media to repeat their talking points about how we won't negotiate with them.
What is the point of winning seats if we're never allowed to do anything with them? That's where genuflecting to the center leads us.
