https://twitter.com/DSA_Enviro/status/1326280241527074817
Dems are really having a hard time figuring out that having an actual platform on which to run on helps you win an election
Dems scraped out a narrow win in a layup presidential race and got smoked down ballot
Democrats lost seats in the House, lost a ton of Senate races by double digits, and had poor results at the state level, too. That's awful in a pandemic, with a shitty economy, and with more anti-incumbent sentiment than we've seen in at least a century.
The mythical moderate voter voted against Trump, but didn't vote for down ballot Democrats. That's what happens when you run on no policies and appeal to people who don't like your party.
The DNC never said they were going to gain House seats, and those Senate races were obvious grifts
Lol lowering expectations doesn't make your campaigning any less shitty. If you can't pick up seats in this environment you ate shit, full stop.
Susan Collins is popular because she's been around for decades and has deep connections with community leaders of all stripes across the state. 99 percent of keeping your job as a politician is doing the above, it has nothing to do with ideology.
The only popular incumbents are either in districts like pelosi's full of brunch libs or are actual progressives. The only people that lost seats this election were centrists.
ok sure, keep supporting their bid to be more like republicans, it works so well
I don't entirely agree with that, but I don't disagree with it either. In North Carolina, Iowa, and Georgia somewhat too, the incumbents weren't especially popular in the same way that Collins is.
Running to the middle won't really help these folks, but running left isn't necessarily going to help them either. What they need to do is generate excitement and running to the left is a sure-fire way to generate said excitement.
If Dems won, why are you here? Why do you feel the need to come defend a party that's victorious? Are you a sore winner? We did go away. We're on a completely different website. You had to come sign up to come post. We go away and you chase us to tearfully type out tirades about how Dems actually are winners and nobody cares what we think. Sad.
uncutdickjewells getting high and mighty about usernames. piss off back to /r/politics or /r/neolib
ah yes but have you considered survivorship bias that i just learned about 10 minutes ago?
You think this matters? Centrists would rather lose than run on M4A or GND or any policy that actually helps people. That's their ideology. It's the ideology that controls the party. The party needs to be completely destroyed.
Theres definitely room for conversation here. I wish there was more data though. The bottom 3 could be seen as too Republican for any Democrat, since they're in double-digits leaning red. The next most extreme disticts are D+6 and R+6. How did Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Donna Shalala lose in Florida? Those are unfortunate ones. They are the strongest leaning Democrat districts in the list, and they lost. It could be that they opposed M4A. I wonder how those areas did in the primaries.
What about non-swing districts? Did any candidates run on M4A or GND and lose (or win in deep blue districts)? I would be curious to the margins there and how they compare to Trumps margins.
Katie Porter and Max rose were in similar districts. One won, one didn't. And if D+6 can go red, then a R+6 can go blue. then you got collin there at the bottom who let himself get BTFO. after owning that district since 1990. But keep grasping. or go back to /r/politics
“Progressive” reform was not on the table this election
yea i guess those progressive democrats winning was a coincidence, or some other excuse youll make for why Dems need to go further right. worthless.
Breaking News: Running on popular policies is an easy path to victory
Only two of them supported the Green New Deal but not M4A AND one. Weird.
