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    1. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020

      James Surowiecki Retweeted Jeet Heer

      It's safe to say this hug had zero effect on down-ballot voters.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1336890946684821505 …

      James Surowiecki added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      If the Democrats were a serious political party aiming at power (instead of a job program for insiders), they would think about how Feinstein's hug of Lindsey Graham hurt them with down ballot voters. pic.twitter.com/0sIaIIk884
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      16 replies 8 retweets 151 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      So for the record your position is that the words and actions of a powerful Senator dealing with a key issue (the courts) has no impact but a slogan that the party did not adapt had an impact.

      8 replies 1 retweet 96 likes
    3. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      For the record, my position is that to a close approximation, zero voters voted Republican because Dianne Feinstein hugged Lindsey Graham, and that some downballot voters voted Republican because they believed Democrats wanted to slash spending for the police.

      4 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
    4. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet

      Did any Republican candidates run on Dianne Feinstein being soft on Amy Coney Barrett? No. Did lots of Republican candidates run on Democrats being in favor of defunding the police? Yes.

      3 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    5. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet

      You keep arguing that Democrats would have done better in downballot races if they had taken a more radical approach, even though the Dem candidate who did best with voters was a moderate. What's the actual evidence for this argument?

      4 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      Running competent hearings and having the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee not be in manifest cognitive decline is not a radical position. It's a moderate or even conservative position.

      2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    7. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I was not in favor of Feinstein being the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and am glad she's stepping down. Her hug of Lindsey Graham - or her conduct of the hearings - did not make Republican/Republican-leaning voters vote Republican in downballot races.

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      I'd say Barrett's sharp improvement in favorability during the course of the hearings indicates 1) people were paying attention and 2) the hearings helped Trump. See here for a South Carolina view.pic.twitter.com/fFtCIL0l4M

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    9. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Right. And your argument is that if Dems were more obstructionist before the inevitable confirmation, it would have *reduced* enthusiasm among GOP voters. That makes no sense.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Dec 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      Obstructionist isn't the only option. They could have effectively made the case that ACB is an extremist. Which happens to be the truth. It's noteworthy that ACB's approval AMONG DEMOCRATS improved over hearings.

      7:57 AM - 10 Dec 2020
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        2. Steve M.‏ @nomoremister 10 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          Can someone please run a survey to determine what percentage of Americans even know that the hug took place?

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Clark Stooksbury‏ @clarkstooksbury 10 Dec 2020
          Replying to @nomoremister @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          Huggate.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This is the same logic that suggested that the hearings for Kavanaugh - whom Democrats certainly painted as unqualified and a terrible pick - were going to hurt Senate Republicans in 2018. There's just no evidence that it did so.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Dec 2020
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet

          I'm not even going to get into the concrete problem of how Dems were supposed to make a pleasant, calm, temperate-seeming parent of 7 look to ordinary voters like an extremist. But even if they had, no reason to think it would have redounded to Dems' benefit downballot.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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