Moser gave a very gracious concession speech and is now 100% behind the winning Dem. That should be reported. This piece almost reads like it’s trying to stir trouble.
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those DCCC-loved RepubliDems whom the TPM Commentariat seems convinced are the only candidates who will save ‘us.’
Nicely done. Meanwhile, TPM’s Commentariat has nothing to say about their ‘Democrats’ voting for the Torture Queen Haspel, and now voting against the consumer, making Dodd-Frank that much weaker. Why fucking bother.
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Thank you for this rundown of the races.
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Actually, a lead pipe cinch is tight, not loose. That’s one of its advantages.
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Who gave you the right to say what the Democratic Party is? That’s for us Democrats, as a group, to decide. Your gripe is that yesterday most of them didn’t agree with your idea of the party.
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A strange comment from a registered college Republican.
In Serbia.
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You forgot to stamp your little feet. It only works when you stamp your little feet, hunny.
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I know a lot of progressives think that the DCCC is bad, but just like all of us, they want to win in November. For the Dems to win in November they need the votes of not just Dems, but Independents too. We have seen this picture a lot of times. No far left or right appeals to enough voters to win. So if your candidate doesn’t win their primary, work like hell for the Dem that won. I learned a while back, that any Dem is way better than a repub.
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I’m just as sick of “establishment” being used as a pejorative as I am of “progressive” or “liberal”.
Sounds like the better candidate probably won (it’d be hard to say the candidate who took home 30-odd percent was the better candidate), and conceded gracefully as she ought to.
Onward to November.
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Please do us all a favor and give it a rest. Bernie is not a Dem.
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Bernie is not a Dem. Get over him and move on.
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I’m sick of left leaners who think the establishment is against them. Just like us all they just want to win in November. Work like hell to get your candidate a primary win. If your candidate does not win, work like hell to get the Dem candidate a win in November. That’s how it works. To bitch and moan, because your side lost is just politically naive. We have to appeal to Dems and Independents to win in November. A Dem win is way better than a repub. So focus on beating the crap out of the repubs in November. That is all that matters.
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The Democrats had a perfect night last night. In TX, the Dems got the better candidate in every House race. In KY, I always thought McGrath was the best candidate and she proved it by driving up the rural vote. I think she takes that seat.
In Georgia, Stacey Abrams’ presence resulted in 200k more people voting Dem as compared to 2014. We came within 60k votes of the total number of votes in the GOP primary race for Governor. With that level of participation plus the lean of suburban independents to Dems this year, Stacey Abrams can win the Governorship. Georgia is about 59%-60% white. It has a very high non-white population and there is an emerging Obama coalition that resembles what happened in Virginia when he won that state in 2008. We have a shot if Abrams can get to 33% of the white vote.
The Democrats are now in a very good position (and I’d say favored) to win GOP held House seats in KY and TX (and possibly GA if Abrams brings it like she did last night). If Dems are winning House races in places like these, they’re taking the House.
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It never ceases to crack me up how you people assume that anyone perceived as slightly to your immediate right is a Republican, not liberal enough. It doesn’t matter where anyone actually stands on the issues. Nope, all that matters is perception.
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Democrats are lining up their candidates, and I don’t have an issue with any of them. I even think the progressive in NE-02 has a better shot to win than Ashford would have. The only wildcard here is the 3 races in California (CA 39, CA 48, CA 49). CA is a late deciding state that is run the old-fashioned way, with a ton of ad spending and late deciding voters. Polling in CA has been pretty bad over the past 2 decades. I think the reason for that is the ballots we get are a big load to digest.
All that said, I think the sheer volume of Democratic money and energy are going to avoid the lock out scenario. In CA 49, I can see where Applegate fades a bit and Jacobs and Levin pick up the slack and lock out the GOP.
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“RepubliDem” is a new one to me. Sad.
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“Anti-Establishment”? Really? Is TPM having a 60’s acid flashback?
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Any candidate, liberal, moderate, or conservative, who announces that she couldn’t get out of the “shit” district she now wishes to represent “fast enough” is serving up some serious fuel to the opposition. My guess is that Moser never imagined her district could change as much as it did in so little time. She seemed like she would be a good candidate were it not for those statements and the fact that, yes, she did leave for a long time before deciding to come back and run. I don’t think the DCCC was wrong in making sure voters understood this. “How dare you tell the truth about me” is never a good look.
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Thank you to Moser for conceding gracefully given the ‘swipe’ she took from the DCCC. They REALLY need to do a better job ‘explaining’ why they back one candidate from another. If they don’t we’re going to have yet another Bernie vs. Hillary split in the party. WE have to remember that we need to be united after the voting takes place.
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Nothing wrong with this. It’s why we have primaries.
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