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Yglesias pointing out

artappraiser — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:55:04 +0000

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Yglesias pointing out inconvenient facts about AOC's door-knocking thingie:

So before the election the quants said foregoing canvassing wouldn’t hurt Biden because it’s a poor use of money anyway.

Downballot Dems decided Biden was wrong and door-knocked anyway. Then Biden ran ahead of them.

And these events somehow proves door-knocking is good? pic.twitter.com/pK79EXN6zP
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 23, 2020

They're not close to

Orion — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:39:48 +0000

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They're not close to embracing "free minds and free markets" either.

If the moderate Democrat is

rmrd0000 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:57:21 +0000

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If the moderate Democrat is seen as a tax and spend "librul", what policies that are not Republican policies will win their votes?

Aw man, was just there for

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:47:24 +0000

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Aw man, was just there for the graphics.

And I read different about

artappraiser — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:43:09 +0000

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And I read different about lots of other places, like Philly for one of many examples

Like it or not (and everyone here doesn't) he lost some he disgusted, but then gained others!.Like many Latinos...etc.

p.s. what appears a moderate

artappraiser — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:21:24 +0000

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p.s. what appears a moderate Dem to you or me is a "librul" tax-and-spend socialist to a Dominican immigrant small businessman who can't make the payment on his new car if the libruls keep shutting down business and make supportive noises about continuous protesting against police while they have to board up their streetfront windows. You think fixing broken windows and then the plywood is free?

Trump is an extremist. Many

artappraiser — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:14:16 +0000

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Trump is a wacko "extremist." Many people voted split ticket, they wanted Trump gone but didn't want "librul" Dems in other offices. Also, according to more than one article posted here, many also wanted divided government

Trump underperformed

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:08:23 +0000

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Trump underperformed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/17/trumps-presidency-republ...

House moderates lost

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:43:30 +0000

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House moderates lost promising new members in swing districts across the country—in New York, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, New Mexico, California—doomed, they assert, by GOP exploitation of progressive enthusiasms for “defunding the police,” “decriminalizing the border,” single-payer healthcare, and democratic socialism.

House majority whip James Clyburn, a key Biden supporter, has been particularly vocal on this point—and with reason. Progressives who thrive in immutably blue urban districts would perish in less hospitable environments. This reality is hardly obscure: Biden carried Nebraska’s generally suburban 2nd Congressional District by 7 points; the Democratic House candidate, a Sanders-style progressive, lost by 5. That 12 percent difference is about running the race your local demographic requires. - Richard North Patterson, The Bulwark