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Well, hire me. I’ll make the GOP weep and cry faster than you can blink.
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why would anyone want to be associated witha bunch of dc dems who will support people who will lose or not fight for the ones who have a chance or winning screw the dccc the dnc or any or those orginaizations its just tossin money in tha toilet there more intrested in corprAte dems bought and payed for yella bellied blue dog shit corprate dems…not progressives like sanders ,warren fraken or brown
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Don’t blame her. I think that democrats should just get out of the ad business and trying to raise huge sums of money. Just put money in GOTV. Spending huge money just to get a few independents is not going to help. Focus on the major states for electoral votes and run candidates in blue states against GOP incumbents. Democrats could do cheaper ads on the radio. Run real democrats that stand up for values that democrats believe in even in red states. This election cycle proved that democrats who pretend to be republicans don’t help. Democrats should just be who they are, win or lose. Democrats could do more town halls in areas where their base is to get them motivated. If democrats focus on turning out base voters to vote than they will win.
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Sherrod Brown would be my choice after reading his emails and listening to him speak - current group of consultants/analyst at DSCC need to find new endeavors - why didn’t Bennett do more for Udall instead of concentrating on SD & KY - both hard to win
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Why didn’t any of them do more to get the Dem message out, instead of buying into the RW crap, that Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to this country? Again though, where the Senate is concerned, people need to realize how much power Reid holds over these elections. He is the one who set the agenda on how these candidates should run their campaign. I have never cared for Reid as Majority Leader, as he refuses to fight for the Dem agenda in the media, but while he seems so soft voiced to the rest of us, he is a bully behind the scenes and wants to run the show. He is the number one Dem that needs to be booted out of his power. Reid likes negative things to “leak” out of his office, but he sucks at publicly defending the Dems and their agenda.
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That’s about 90% of the answer right there.
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I know that many see McCaskill as way to moderate, or even a little right, but being from Missouri, and following her political career for years, I can tell you that she is a shrewd cookie, and tough as nails, and maybe just what we need to do this job.
She was instrumental in her last reelection campaign in getting Akins nominated over the more moderate Republican in the race, knowing what a total lunatic the man was. She actually put up money for Ads against his primary opponent, and it worked out beautifully. She got reelected in a red state, standing up for the ACA.
She was also instrumental in getting the Dem candidate in Kansas to drop out of the race this time, knowing that if we were going to have even the slimmest chance, that Orman was the one, and it almost worked out.
I have been to her town halls, which are usually full of Republicans, and that woman goes toe to toe with them and is not afraid to speak out against their deluded Fox talking points, while also reaching out to them and telling them to contact her and she will sit down and talk over any concerns of theirs, and I can tell you from my own experience, that she is one of the few who actually personally answers her constituent’s emails and letters.
She is not afraid to raise hell and speak out, and being from an increasingly red state like Missouri, she was not afraid to be one of the first Dems to endorse this President in 2008, much to the appall of the Clintons, and at her own political risk. She also was not afraid to fight for and stand up for the ACA, knowing it was not popular here in Missouri. The woman has a spine of steel, and we need a lot more of that in leadership positions in this party.
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I think she should run for president rather than Hilary. She’s perky and personable and has good political instincts.
And believe me, I would not want to try to lead probably the most disloyal group of politicians in the world.
The democrats were horrified when Obama said this midterm was about his policies. They ran away from them, even though if they had articulated precisely what those policies are, they would have found that those policies are actually popular.
Look at the red state voters who voted to raise the minimum wage. Look at voters all over the country that voted for progressive legislation.
But the Democrats were too chicken to espouse these policies and they lost big time.
I’m really glad the president no longer has to be hamstrung by these cowards!
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In a perfect world, I wish we could do that, but the problem is not the Ads, that Citizens United basically forced us to do on a huge scale, but the message of those Ads, and of the party as a whole.
The problem was that we did not have any real message at all, when we had plenty to crow about in REAL facts about the economy. We have horrible messengers, and need a whole new PR shakeup in our party.
We need to find a way to yank away the bullhorn from the RWNJ party, and make our message a hell of a lot better, because this time it was basically nothing more than saying, “yeah we know the media has painted the false narrative that Obama is Satan, but vote for us.”
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Yep. Only something like 33% of registered voters bothered this time.
Why does it have to be a sitting Senator? Can’t the DSCC farm this out (under DSCC oversight)? Are there laws against that?
Rs basically have Rove and the Koch brothers, and Ds have… Michael Bennet, Steve Israel and Debbie WS…
I can well understand why Gillibrand or any of the others would hesitate to “chair” such a corrupt and spectacularly failure-ridden staff of self-dealing hacks. (See http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-did-democrats-do-so-badly-last.html#sthash.rgGQnqKy.uxfs )
I wish I could believe that Obama’s problem was being hamstrung by cowards. Obama’s problem is that he thought it was more important to get Republicans to back his programs than to present programs that were representative of what the people who voted for him wanted. The very first and most obvious was his abandonment of the public option. And he went downhill from there until a year ago. He seemed to feel that the Republicans were the ones whose votes he needed. They didn’t put him in office and hated having a black President. But he never understood that. And I am not sure he does to this day.