Funny. These districts (including IA-4) didn’t magically become competitive. It’s just the “Official Democrats” have been mostly ignoring them, and thus blind to the intense grassroots effort underway. So they didn’t get much polling. And then there’s a poll and everyone’s
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So many like that. It’s the same kind of problem that leads to assuming PA and WI are safe Democratic votes, so no need to fight that hard for them. In 2018, the D grassroots may be saving the party from its centralized complacency. May. Problem remains.https://twitter.com/danothebeach/status/1059149377523146752 …
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Fair point, I remember them failing that way a number of times over the years.
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And more generally this brazenly outs the defects in our democracy. Lancaster county is still largely rural agricultural area. The Twitter diplomacy engine is used by a very low percentage. Compare Jess King's small cadre of Twitter activists to
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We have yet grasped the extent of DWS’s malpractice & certainly not the long term costs to
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I've been ignoring the national party ever since Howard Dean was forced out as DNC chair and the party killed his 50-state strategy.
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Could this be because, instead of engaging people who didn't vote for them (or for anybody else), they basically blamed them outright for Trump's win? Because that's the vibe I've been continually getting from the left since Hillary lost.
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They prefer the GOP to progressives....
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Dal pantano non se ne esce...
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Are you writing for Intercept now, Democratic party is guilty, if they try or not.
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I am curious what would you suggest as a practical alternative? Have you participated in the political campaign?
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