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No time for complacency.
Crush the Republicans. Beat them so badly that they’ll be demoralized and unwilling to challenge any further.
We lost by 25 points…in a midterm…when the president was a Kendonesian-Marxist-Socialist-Leninist-Trotskyist-Maoist-Tax-and-Spend-and-Grab-Guns-America-Hating-Nonresident-Manchurian-Candidate LIBRUL…what will we do when the deck ISN’T stacked against us?
That’s what I want to see from them.
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Not to state the obvious, but we must turn out the vote. We really need to impress upon the youth and minorities that this is not the election to sit out, no election is, but certainly not this one.
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Landrieu and Hagan are running well too.
Chuckie Todd et al always seem to pick Pryor as THE most endangered Democrat, but these polls don’t bear that out. Or perhaps he was just The Most Endangered Democrat Du Jour.
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Get. Out. The. Vote.
Take no prisoners. It’s not kool to not vote–and it certainly is silly and mind-boggling that an educated population can have the means (voting) with which to change their situation for the better, and refuse to believe it and act on it. Does anyone believe that Herbert Hoover would have made a better President than FDR?
I would also suggest that the usual angst-ridden, hand-wringing mojo of the Democrats is going to have to change. We need some momentum-inducing narratives, some swagger and some fighting spirit. In that regard, by two favourite figures currently are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Fighters.
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The reason they are doing well is because Southerners are beginning to realize “Hey, we sent a buncha kooks to Congress and we haven’t gotten shit!”
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Aren’t these states the ones who turned down participating in the healthcare exchanges? Repubs just do not understand how vitally important access to healthcare is to people, nor how impossible it would be to take it away.
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Man oh man, I can’t believe I’m invested this much in an election for a legislator outside my own country… but I really, really want Grimes to win. Really. I’d give her money if that wasn’t probably all sorts of illegal, coming from a Canadian haha.
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landrieu is my senator and i can tell ya Im so sick and tired of these bluedog shit dems its too bad we cant get a progressive to run against them and show the south what we really can do for this country…instead of suckin up to the corprate intrests
And even if they don’t give a rip about poor people, injecting all that new cash into their local economies will benefit everyone. Why, they could even lower their taxes, which should make their wet dreams come true.
Substance over crazy?
Still better than a Republican, and far more likely to be amenable to negotiation on meaningful legislation. Ideological purity is a dangerous thing - here in Canada we have a social democratic party, and its split the left so much that the Conservatives won a majority government last election with 38 percent of the popular vote.
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Democrats! One day loom and gloom, the other happy campers. Too emotionally distressed.
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I can’t comment on Louisiana but here in South Carolina a progressive has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a statewide election. You can piss on Blue Dogs all you like but Democrats will need them to maintain control of the Senate.
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Every day is a day that I’m hellbent on eradicating your ideology from the face of the earth. Every. Single. Day.
That emotion never, ever changes.
So speak for yourself, asshole. And best look over your shoulder.
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Hugh, I think you could be right that this year will be a wave election. It looks like the Republicans may be waving good-bye to retaking the Senate.
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Trouble ahead for Mary Landrieu
The Koch Brothers just announced a 125-million dollar offensive including them.
RCP Avg polling has Landrieu at only 42%, way below the critical 50% mark for an incumbent Mary will need all our support, and her team will need to run an aggressive, creative, mistake-free campaign to win.
It’s only good news for Dems if they actually vote.
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Actually from a purely utilitarian perspective, it’s very rational not to vote. The half hour or more of your time can’t possibly be offset by the million to one chance that your vote swings an election.
Of course we’re not supposed to say that out loud because the flag and apple pie and all. (I still vote, but not for utilitarian reasons.)