This time. In deep red ALABAMA. WHY isn't any of the narratives or the polls not coming -EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE - to reflecting results like this?That's easy. The narratives are set by the mainstream media, and mainstream media ownership wants Trump and the Republicans to win.
Hopefully it means people are finally realizing Republicans are awful for this countryNah we're cooked. Trump has sycophants that think gays eat children and harvest adrenochrome and want to hang leftists for simply existing.
Nah we're cooked. Trump has sycophants that think gays eat children and harvest adrenochrome and want to hang leftists for simply existing.Let's not be defeatist. Trump lost in 2020, and it's difficult to see how Republicans have grown their base or appealed more to swing voters since then.
Until a lot of old R's kick the bucket, we're cooked. Trump is here to stay.
Hopefully it means people are finally realizing Republicans are awful for this country
GOP did the one thing they weren't supposed to do.I'm really hoping to read an obituary of the GOP as a national party in a few years that starts with "The dog caught the car, and that's why the party died".
Fulfill a campaign promise.
Now many people are rightly pissed
For the longest time democrats use to think abortion and woman's rights was a losing issue in red states and didn't try running in it. Now they are starting to realize it's a winning issue after all.It probably was a losing issue pre-Dobbs. Most people can only learn stuff the hard way.
Nah we're cooked. Trump has sycophants that think gays eat children and harvest adrenochrome and want to hang leftists for simply existing.That's the thing though they are the minority and Republicans are getting more and more toxic to independents. The sycophants are not growing in number.
Until a lot of old R's kick the bucket, we're cooked. Trump is here to stay.
That's the thing though they are the minority and Republicans are getting more and more toxic to independents. The sycophants are not growing in number.
Let's not be defeatist. Trump lost in 2020, and it's difficult to see how Republicans have grown their base or appealed more to swing voters since then.
See though, here's the thing. It may not be growing anymore, but it certainly isn't shrinking. We have just as many insane people now as we did in 2020.You are right they are not shrinking and I get the fear. I see it as a double edged sword, the crazier they get the more they turn off people. Trump and MAGA are getting crazier, more unhinged. The best thing the Biden campaign can do is run on that and use it to be the saner option.
I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But ask me to put faith into my fellow man, it just won't happen.
Could by a myriad of things. I don't know what the district changes were between elections, what the turnout was, and so on.
I'm not trying to dismiss what happened here, it's still awesome, but I think there's more than a single explanation.
You are right they are not shrinking and I get the fear. I see it as a double edged sword, the crazier they get the more they turn off people. Trump and MAGA are getting crazier, more unhinged. The best thing the Biden campaign can do is run on that and use it to be the saner option.
I believe he plans on running against Blankenship in WV, was talking about how he talked to someone in a very rural Republican district at the end of the road who told him that even though they disagreed on every policy the man said he'd be voting for him because he was the first person to actually ask him.Beto is the only Texas candidate to ever visit every county in the state, which is a fuck ton. He still got smoked in every election.
Beto is the only Texas candidate to ever visit every county in the state, which is a fuck ton. He still got smoked in every election.
This whole 'reach out' to people is pretty stupid imo. Yes it's important to a point and to build a following, base, or whatever, but I don't believe it'll win over as many voters as say the next 10 Democratic candidates doing it as well.
Listening to a person speak 1 time and then never again isn't how you win these people over. Trump visits the same states over and over and over. Now he's not visiting every county of every state, but he does visit Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania extremely often. He's not just visiting swing states, he's visiting easy red states. Now granted that could be because of the primaries, but while I do think Dems need to stop allowing Republicans to run unopposed, but they also need to start having every candidate meet with every possible constituent and then their successor do the same, and so on.
Meeting these people often is key and Dems are basically punting because of 'costs'.
Small tangent I know, but my mind kind of fixated on Beto being a fucking failure and then his successor being even worse and how it's annoying that Dems are refusing to run in certain Republican strongholds.
Losing by 40 is better than losing because you chose not to enter.
That's easy. The narratives are set by the mainstream media, and mainstream media ownership wants Trump and the Republicans to win.If by "mainstream media" you mean "Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN", then you're 100% correct.