A nice article about how the Democratic Party is panicking over its greatest strength—the unprecedented number of people running for office. Its response has been to aggressively push out great candidates, in favor of wealthy Republican-lite contenders.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/democrats-house-midterms-california.html …
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The "top two" primary system in California is the perfect excuse to indulge the Democratic Party's insitutional dislike of contested primaries. They feel about primary elections like the Victorians felt about exercise—that it drains and depletes energy not easily recovered.
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I've been fundraising for nine candidates, and so far the DCCC has tried to kneecap at least five of them. Fortunately they're as incompetent as they are timorous. Help the good people fight back by continuing to donate money to these races!https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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The dream scenario for the Democratic Party is to have a single self-funding conservative millionaire run in each district, with halfway-to-Trump views and deep connections to the Washington consultant class. And then they wonder why they can't win rural districts.
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If you're a working class voter in Arkansas, who are you going to be motivated to vote for? A wealthy Harvard lawyer, or the guy with a day job who cuts his own rebar and wants universal health care? The answer is obvious to everyone outside Washingtonhttps://twitter.com/cantbuypaul/status/986311840853569539 …
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universal healthcare is not exactly popular in Arkansas. However, a competent leftist can win a Democratic primary there (but not a general election).
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I believe universal healthcare is broadly popular in Arkansas.
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I'd like to see election results supporting that. Issue poll results tend to have little relation to what happens in voting booth. E.g., expanded background checks lost in ME. Arkansas 2nd, however, is only a Trump +10 district, so French Hill can lose in a very good Dem year.
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Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor were both attacked very heavily for their support for the ACA by Boozman (basically generic Republican) and Cotton (Harvard JD), and both went down in massive defeats.
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The ACA is not universal health care. I believe the distinction matters. I look forward to seeing this tested in an election this November, too!
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