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.
People do. People are not just democrats or republicans. You're leaving out two thirds of the population by limiting everything to registered members of two bourgeois parties.
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.
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.
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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.
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People do. People are not just democrats or republicans. You're leaving out two thirds of the population by limiting everything to registered members of two bourgeois parties.
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I'm fully convinced you're just a weirdo r/neoliberal chud. Hog out boy.
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.