I have said for decades now that Democrats can win almost any state federally (except in the Deep South) if:
They pull their candidate/s, have an independent run and secretly (not the whole DSCC is investing in x race or ActBlue donation links that would activate partisanship) support them with an innocent sounding or state centric pac. T…
I have said for decades now that Democrats can win almost any state federally (except in the Deep South) if:
They pull their candidate/s, have an independent run and secretly (not the whole DSCC is investing in x race or ActBlue donation links that would activate partisanship) support them with an innocent sounding or state centric pac. This is exactly what’s happening in NE-Sen.
Why we haven’t started doing this when we know Democrats can’t win these very red states federally drives me absolutely insane. It’s such a simple formula and it works! Get a Democrat or left/centrist indie to run as an Independent, not a Democrat. Boost behind the scenes. Makes it a way closer race than any D running and who knows, maybe they even win!
The only argument against doing so is that there’s a party loyalty so even if they know they’ll lose, they still run as Democrats because that’s their party. Or that Dem voters want to vote for a Democrat. Which, I mean, great, but I’d rather an Indie come within 5-10 then a Democrat guaranteed to lose by 20.
They can run completely on the Dem platform and have an I next to their name and still gets votes they couldn’t as a Democrat. I’d even go as far to say a more progressive I than Democrats are as a whole, would do better than a Democrat. It’s the I that gets the votes. That’s all that’s needed.
I have said for decades now that Democrats can win almost any state federally (except in the Deep South) if:
They pull their candidate/s, have an independent run and secretly (not the whole DSCC is investing in x race or ActBlue donation links that would activate partisanship) support them with an innocent sounding or state centric pac. This is exactly what’s happening in NE-Sen.
Why we haven’t started doing this when we know Democrats can’t win these very red states federally drives me absolutely insane. It’s such a simple formula and it works! Get a Democrat or left/centrist indie to run as an Independent, not a Democrat. Boost behind the scenes. Makes it a way closer race than any D running and who knows, maybe they even win!
The only argument against doing so is that there’s a party loyalty so even if they know they’ll lose, they still run as Democrats because that’s their party. Or that Dem voters want to vote for a Democrat. Which, I mean, great, but I’d rather an Indie come within 5-10 then a Democrat guaranteed to lose by 20.
They can run completely on the Dem platform and have an I next to their name and still gets votes they couldn’t as a Democrat. I’d even go as far to say a more progressive I than Democrats are as a whole, would do better than a Democrat. It’s the I that gets the votes. That’s all that’s needed.