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The polling data doesn't really support that marketing of ideas is the issue, either. what are the major tentpoles of, say, the Bernie campaign that polls underwater with democrats? On the other hand, the polling data absolutely supported that the major factor in a Biden voter was the perception of who can beat Trump. That doesn't suggest the issue is progressives haven't convinced enough people - it suggests the issue is that democrats don't necessarily vote for what they personally want, they vote for what they think other people want to best defeat the Republicans. And to some, this may not even seem like a problem, because some people think defeating Republicans should always be more important than anything else, but then to suggest the issue is marketing and not...the fact that the majority of Democrats believe defeating Republicans is more important than a progressive agenda just seems like a joke. This goes back to my previous post - it isn't the average GOP voters who is fanatical with their votes. It is the Democratic voters who only think about winning with their votes above all else. The Republicans nominated Donald Trump because he was saying what the voters wanted, not tired establishment types like Jeb!, and there isn't any evidence they did it because they thought Trump had the best shot of winning. They just liked him the most.