tsubaki
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Booker is one of those rare individuals who appears to be less than the sum of his parts. Did you see his turn during the Kavanaugh hearings? It was like watching custard dry.
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Booker is one of those rare individuals who appears to be less than the sum of his parts. Did you see his turn during the Kavanaugh hearings? It was like watching custard dry.
DanEFC92
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If I was playing 2020 election footy manager, I'd go with O'Rourke/Ocasio-Cortez ticket. 2 immensely popular politicians.
Go with any establishment (or perceived establishment) dem candidate and we'll see a repeat of 2016.
tsubaki
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Its surely too early for Ocasio-Cortez, though then again the likes of Fox and the shower around Trump have gone after her far too much for them not to be concerned about her (or at least what she represents, ie something that might appeal to their base as well as hers) and the lack of any obvious candidates for 2020 probably gives someone who has a real pop back at them in the next two years a real chance.
O'Rourke just looks and sounds too much like he is out of central casting for me though, in fact if you were to ask a child to draw someone they thought represented the stereotypical male Democrat politician I'd bet they'd draw him.
BirkenheadBlue
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You have to be 35 to be President or Vice President.
DanEFC92
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Stop ruining my dreams.
DanEFC92
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Bernie VP
abelard
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It's an interesting question.
Most House candidates dubbed "progressive" by the media - and thus exoticised and gawked over as such by the media - did not do especially well. If we are being honest with ourselves, we should acknowledge this
(Beto - while someone which people who devour the West Wing and Pod Save America assume to be progressive simply because he is handsome, relatively young, and charismatic - is bland white stale Wonderbread in policy terms). And there is also a big difference between defeating a long-term mostly-absentee incumbent in Queens, and winning in, say, West Virginia (which until after Clinton, was one of the most Democratic states in the Union). It remains to be seen.
Americans, even Republicans, overwhelmingly support progressive policies. But what Real Americans do not often support are candidates which the media brands and packages as "progressive", especially progressive Democrats. It is akin to trying to sell Pork Rinds at Kroger, but hidden inside packaging for organic artisanal kale. Ewww.
For the most part, they (rightly) dislike the Democratic Party, almost as much as they dislike the Republican Party. Though it led people who devour the West Wing and Pod Save America to paroxysms of agony, Bernie's decades of distate if not open contempt for the Democrats was critical to establishing his credibility with swathes of Real America, as were his decades in the (literal and figurative) wilderness, spurning money and influence and corporate concessions out of honour and principle.
What Democrats should really do is a make a show of disbanding the Party altogether, and starting anew with a different name and message. If any institution in the country is crying out for a rebranding, it is the Democratic Party.
But given that this will never happen, they could do worse than to pair someone just like AOC with a grizzled Ron Swanson type - Jim Webb with brain transplant - who plausibly looks like he enjoys ride-mowing flora, automatic-weaponning fauna, satiating America's lust for spilling overseas blood, and consuming fried corn-derived merchandise, but who also promises medicare for all, unbought and unrigged elections, an end to banks and massive corporations utterly taking the piss, and the ability for anyone (because it is their right as an American!!!) who works forty hours a week to support a family without living in poverty.
Most House candidates dubbed "progressive" by the media - and thus exoticised and gawked over as such by the media - did not do especially well. If we are being honest with ourselves, we should acknowledge this
(Beto - while someone which people who devour the West Wing and Pod Save America assume to be progressive simply because he is handsome, relatively young, and charismatic - is bland white stale Wonderbread in policy terms). And there is also a big difference between defeating a long-term mostly-absentee incumbent in Queens, and winning in, say, West Virginia (which until after Clinton, was one of the most Democratic states in the Union). It remains to be seen.
Americans, even Republicans, overwhelmingly support progressive policies. But what Real Americans do not often support are candidates which the media brands and packages as "progressive", especially progressive Democrats. It is akin to trying to sell Pork Rinds at Kroger, but hidden inside packaging for organic artisanal kale. Ewww.
For the most part, they (rightly) dislike the Democratic Party, almost as much as they dislike the Republican Party. Though it led people who devour the West Wing and Pod Save America to paroxysms of agony, Bernie's decades of distate if not open contempt for the Democrats was critical to establishing his credibility with swathes of Real America, as were his decades in the (literal and figurative) wilderness, spurning money and influence and corporate concessions out of honour and principle.
What Democrats should really do is a make a show of disbanding the Party altogether, and starting anew with a different name and message. If any institution in the country is crying out for a rebranding, it is the Democratic Party.
But given that this will never happen, they could do worse than to pair someone just like AOC with a grizzled Ron Swanson type - Jim Webb with brain transplant - who plausibly looks like he enjoys ride-mowing flora, automatic-weaponning fauna, satiating America's lust for spilling overseas blood, and consuming fried corn-derived merchandise, but who also promises medicare for all, unbought and unrigged elections, an end to banks and massive corporations utterly taking the piss, and the ability for anyone (because it is their right as an American!!!) who works forty hours a week to support a family without living in poverty.
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BirkenheadBlue
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Wow.
tsubaki
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A candidate who did that properly would clean up; there would be none of this Nate Silver strategic choice nonsense that abandons 40% of the electorate as essentially unwinnable.
Shocking what can happen when a good candidate shows up in Texas and actually fights for the vote of Texans rather than just cash our checks.
One of the campaign lines used by GOP candidates running statewide was something to the effect of "don't California my Texas". Kinda odd given each of the last 2 Governors runs (or rolls) around the state gloating about all the Californians and California businesses moving here.
(Psst... uh, hey fellas. When they get here they can vote here and most of 'em are librulz.)
Yep - thx for correction
yea, I'm with you there, frustratingly disappointing.
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