Democrats' awful marketing has led them to lose unloseable arguments against LITERALLY REPUBLICANS in the battle for public opinion.

And you still want to spike the football into your nuts again?

HB2 is very unpopular, even in NC.

Nope, hill nearly lost VA with a VA VP and as such I think it's looking like a goner soon. It's gonna be ridic lol when they change the rules to split EV and it just gives dems a few points they would've had a 0 otherwise. I said "did it right" as well and with any of the current favorites they've got no shot at KS but 20 points can be overcome if everybody's income goes to total hell in the state and doesn't recover for 4 years. There doesn't appear to be anyone in the party to get them there though, dems badly needed another charismatic IL senator but there are none.

AZ isn't gonna turn D in 4 years as trump will get rid of a lot of D voters by then.

Given the incoming D voter suppression, dems are likely going to have to do what he did--flip a surprise state. Warren seems completely dead with TX but seems to be the best state to try to pull it off but that requires some general policy changes, especially the gun ones. If they don't win TX, they've got to regain a lot of ground in the midwest + get back FL. They're not gonna do it with another east coast lib. Bern's gonna be nearly 80.

Best shot is team trump gets caught so outrageously his own party has to turn on him and it's difficult to be optimistic ever with those, no matter how ridic it turns.

She won by 5.3 points in VA, an improvement over Obama's margin in 2012.

I'd include his "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things" as a top 10 book of the 20th Century. It's a bold claim but I think that book carefully dispels a number of strongly held false assumptions about language and thought. It's like "Godel, Escher, Bach" with a thesis. That said, haven't read his political work.

You are telling on yourself with this bizarre lie.

Huh? How is Trump going to "get rid of" US citizens in Arizona?

He's not going to get rid of the citizens, the DOJ simply isn't going to get in the way as the Rs go ham on vote suppression. Even tougher ID laws, closing more poll places, etc.

But you're advocating abandoning easily winnable fights (that potentially swung the NC governors race) started by the opposition bc some transphobic dude in Michigan might be upset?

She won VA by 5.4%. Obama only won it in 2012 by about 4 points. The reason split EV is being proposed is bc GOP politicians realize they might never win another statewide election again. I think they're right on that front.

This November will be the test, but I think dems are going to come out of, in Virginia at least, looking very strong.

Yeah, the fact that Virginia seemed scary for an hour or two on election night had more to do with our disbelief in what was happening in the other states than Virginia being under any real threat to go red.

It seems to me that the main problem the Democrats have is that the current cleavages of the Trump presidency are not relevant for the swing voters in the swing states they lost with the possible exception of Florida.
You need to install a properly left wing vs right wing cleavage not only liberalism vs fascism.

Oh dear God. How do you flat-out make **** up and think you can post it?

VA, 2012: D margin of victory, 3.9%, 149,000 votes
VA, 2016: D margin of victory, 5.3%, 212,000 votes

How did she "nearly" lose it? She also won ages 18-44 there 54%-38%, so I'm not sure why you'd think it'd flip going forwards. Polling this cycle was pretty much dead-on accurate there.

I didn't say AZ would 100% flip in 4 years, but it is winnable for D's in the near future.

I remember there was a lot of interest in David Duke's opinion on this forum, we shouldn't care about what fringe publicity seekers think but for those who have obsessed about it in the past here's the latest:

David Duke gives ringing endorsement to Rep. Keith Ellison for DNC chair

It's very obvious that you're trying to find anyway possible to discredit any liberal/Democrat. The same approach should be taken for any representative as it was for Donald Trump, if they do not disavow the support of a hateful icon / white supremacist such as David Duke then they do not deserve public support. It doesnt matter if they are A democrat or a republican.

bolded is added by me

Lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.f30cfd3a40d1

That story makes it clearer than ever that we need to be calling, protesting, and going to Town Halls of Democrats across the board.

Democrats when conservatives are mad: We need to reach out and understand their grievances
Democrats when liberals are mad: Bernie make them go away

This is foolish. Joe Manchin will need all the help he can get to win in West Virginia in 2018. If that means he needs to make some pro-Trump votes that don't affect the outcome anyway, let him.

And what is Joe Manchin doing to advance the cause of We The People? Not a goddamn thing. Kick the bum out!

If Manchin casting some controversial votes on the pro-Trump side that would have succeeded anyway helps him stick around in 2018, that seems...good?

What the hell is going to be accomplished by subjecting Democratic senators from WV or ND to purity tests so that they can be replaced by Republicans in 2018??

We replace them with Democrats or Republicans who will represent We The People. It does us absolutely zero good to have a guy with "Democrat" by his name in there if he votes for Jeff ****ing Sessions for Attorney General. He just voted for massive voter suppression in 2020, so I hope you're cool with that too.

Unlike the WV Republican that would defeat him, Joe Manchin will vote to preserve the health insurance of millions of people.

Spoiler alert, the Republican that replaces Manchin in 2018 will not represent We The People.