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    1. Will Stancil‏ @whstancil 2 Dec 2020

      Will Stancil Retweeted James Surowiecki

      It's true, Biden's "We must defund the police" slogan was a serious tactical error, I don't know what he was thinking embracing this sloganhttps://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1334140495585546241 …

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      James SurowieckiVerified account @JamesSurowiecki
      “Embracing slogans that are wildly unpopular with the vast majority of voters has no electoral consequences! I am a very serious thinker about politics.” https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1334023465070899201 …
      11 replies 4 retweets 120 likes
    2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @whstancil

      Was thinking more AOC and Ilhan Omar, as well as a wide range of liberal organizations, all of whom made sure Democrats generally were widely associated in the public mind with the slogan "defund the police."

      15 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @whstancil

      Did AOC and Omar run on "defund the police"? Also there are literally thousands of liberal organizations in USA. Is it possible to gag all of them so they won't say "defund the police"?

      5 replies 0 retweets 39 likes
    4. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @whstancil

      Who’s talking about gagging? People should say what they want. I’m just saying they should stop pretending it didn’t cost Democrats votes around the country.

      6 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    5. @ijbailey‏ @ijbailey 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet @whstancil

      Can you point to the evidence for this claim? Any evidence? At all?

      1 reply 0 retweets 19 likes
    6. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @ijbailey @HeerJeet @whstancil

      Everyone asks for “evidence,” then when that evidence is provided - like focus-group results, and the fact that GOP candidates spent heavily on ads tying their opponents to the slogan - everyone says, “That doesn’t count.”

      9 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @ijbailey @whstancil

      GOP candidates spent heavily on ads in 2018 about caravan and MS-13. Didn't work then. Why would similar ads on police work in 2020?

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        2. @ijbailey‏ @ijbailey 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @whstancil

          "Defund the police" has become a scapegoat for Democrats in districts that were always going to be hard to win - because they are SWING districts. Dems picked up formerly red or purple districts in '18. Why did anyone assume they would keep them all. I never understood that.

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        3. Count of Negroni‏ @GIGACHURCH 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @ijbailey

          Yeah this is the answer. There was hope for a larger blue advantage than manifested resulting in a lot of acrimony and finger pointing, but really it was just a normal election and nothing very bad happened.

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        1. Upgraded to Doubtful‏ @metapede 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki and

          So basically, “your evidence doesn’t align with my intuition based on something vaguely similar from the past”

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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ijbailey @whstancil

          If you seriously don’t understand why ads about an immigrant caravan that Dems had nothing to do with were less effective than ads about defunding the police, I don’t know what to tell you.

          3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. @ijbailey‏ @ijbailey 2 Dec 2020
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet @whstancil

          So your argument is now that because Dems didn't have anything to do with MS-13 and the caravan, that's why it didn't resonate - even as you claim that Democratic candidates who repeatedly and forcefully rejected defund the police lost because of it anyway? Pick one, man.

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