The Sum Of All Campaign Evils

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(06-20-2017, 11:57 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Scott Brown flat out won in insanely Democratic Massachusetts in a similar situation.  This is a bad loss for the Dems, especially given the outside funding, and there is no spinning it otherwise.  My hope is that they pull their heads out of their asses and start calling out the insane rhetoric on their side right now.  We need to pull back towards the middle.  

Scott Brown was also considered pretty moderate. Democrats went with a pretty liberal replacement in a very conservative district. Like you said, they should have gone to the middle. These swing voters want to be assured that they're taken care of. Apparently some of them saw that in the economic populism of Bernie (which I think ultimately was his appeal to blue dogs, populism not progressivism). Idk, I'm not a political analyst. I just think whichever party can convince the electorate in 2018 that they going to help their wallets the most will win. Half the country is still pissed gay people can marry. A socially progressive agenda isn't winning votes from them.