115th Congress - Still 100% Roy Moore Free

[busterman62]

Re: 115th Congress - Still 100% Roy Moore Free

Read an interesting article on the Doug Jones win. During his campaign, he never tacked rightwards on any issues. He remained a supporter of planned parenthood for example. He also didn't emphasize right wing issues like 2nd amendment rights first and foremost. What he did was stick to two themes that resonated: 1) health care which poll respondents said was their top issue, and 2) Roy Moore is a disgrace. For the 2nd one, he didn't even need to run ads directly saying that. He basically stuck to his theme and let Moore be the focus of the race, to his detriment.

This won't work in every race, but sometime you need to skip the flip flopping and the pandering if your opponent is a lunatic, and just let them hang themselves. By some of the votes they've taken this past year, that ought to work pretty often. Goopers can't even pass a tax cut that people like!

Absolutes:
The Sun comes up in the East
The Sun sets in the West
The victorious party will misinterpret the voter's disdain for the other party as support for theirs

[GrinCDXX]

Re: 115th Congress - Still 100% Roy Moore Free

Read an interesting article on the Doug Jones win. During his campaign, he never tacked rightwards on any issues. He remained a supporter of planned parenthood for example. He also didn't emphasize right wing issues like 2nd amendment rights first and foremost. What he did was stick to two themes that resonated: 1) health care which poll respondents said was their top issue, and 2) Roy Moore is a disgrace. For the 2nd one, he didn't even need to run ads directly saying that. He basically stuck to his theme and let Moore be the focus of the race, to his detriment.

This won't work in every race, but sometime you need to skip the flip flopping and the pandering if your opponent is a lunatic, and just let them hang themselves. By some of the votes they've taken this past year, that ought to work pretty often. Goopers can't even pass a tax cut that people like!

If the Dems are smart, they should be able to pretty much run the table in red leaning districts in high tax states--and it won't require any pandering.

[Kepler]

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The victorious party will misinterpret the voter's disdain for the other party as support for theirs

This should be chiseled above the doorframe of every party HQ.

"It's not that we love you. We just hate them more."

[GrinCDXX]

Re: 115th Congress - Still 100% Roy Moore Free

Absolutes:
The Sun comes up in the East
The Sun sets in the West
The victorious party will misinterpret the voter's disdain for the other party as support for theirs

Agreed. Neither party is capable of making an honest assessment of electoral results. If one of them figures that out--the other will be in trouble.

[Kepler]

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If the Dems are smart, they should be able to pretty much run the table in red leaning districts in high tax states--and it won't require any pandering.

Retain every currently blue district.

Target every red district in a blue state and every purple district in a red state.

According to 538 we have about 100 viable targets. When the GOP had 100 viable targets in 2010 they picked up 60% of them. We can do the same as long as we keep our heads and campaign smart.

We are absolutely in the running to take back both chambers. The Republicans are deliberately and explicitly pursuing an agenda that 65% of the nation opposes. It's not that they love us. They just hate them more.

We're going to need a margin since if the GOP thinks it's behind in 2018 there will be a well-timed war.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

If the Dems are smart, they should be able to pretty much run the table in red leaning districts in high tax states--and it won't require any pandering.

That’s exactly what the Phillips campaign is going to do in Mn to oust Paulsen.

[joecct]

That’s exactly what the Phillips campaign is going to do in Mn to oust Paulsen.

try to do. Keep the national players out of the state.

[FlagDUDE08]

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You are. Your cohort is. Trump is.

Any other questions snowflake?

I'm still awaiting your evidence that Trump's a racist. You still haven't provided any that's concrete.

[GrinCDXX]

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That’s exactly what the Phillips campaign is going to do in Mn to oust Paulsen.

Even the ones that didn't vote for the heist are in trouble--Paulsen is toast.

[Kepler]

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try to do. Keep the national players out of the state.

Prolly won't matter in MN. That reflexive hatred of "the national players" is a lot more intense in Jesusland. And even there, Jones had a lot of high profile national support and he won.

But there are definitely corn pone places where you don't let the national people in. The slave states, the rural prairie, Appalachia which at this point includes Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

[GrinCDXX]

Re: 115th Congress - Still 100% Roy Moore Free

try to do. Keep the national players out of the state.

Or at least until the final days, as Doug Jones did.

[MaizeRage]

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Sean Hannity's Wikipedia page was updated to say that he privately referred to Roger Ailes as "Overlord" or "Daddy," and that Hannity's mother gave him mercury as a child, explaining why he has a remained a dumbass into adulthood. That's funny enough, but the changes came from an IP address inside the US Senate.

[Kepler]

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Sean Hannity's Wikipedia page was updated to say that he privately referred to Roger Ailes as "Overlord" or "Daddy," and that Hannity's mother gave him mercury as a child, explaining why he has a remained a dumbass into adulthood. That's funny enough, but the changes came from an IP address inside the US Senate.

He must have spurned Graham. He always seemed like a vindictive little hussy.

[mookie1995]

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2) Roy Moore is a disgrace. For the 2nd one, he didn't even need to run ads directly saying that. He basically stuck to his theme and let Moore be the focus of the race, to his detriment.

This won't work in every race,

um, yes it will.

[Kepler]

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um, yes it will.

We can run against Dump in every race. The places where that 35% is over 50 are not ones we will be winning this century, anyway.

Dump is such a loathsome embarrassment we should be running against him forever. Even when he's in prison, even when he's in the ground. Make him the face of the GOP for the next 40 years.