It would be so nice if just once a politician would decide what they stood for and then ran on that rather than trying to figure out what they think people want to hear and then how they can say that thing that will make them sound better than the other person. I have found that it is super hard to read anyone’s mind but my own.
I liked what Lovett, Favs, and Ben spoke about on the pod yesterday - Dems are diverse, which is their strength. Dems are more representative of the whole country in so many ways - and doing this kind of thing is, in my opinion, a stunt. I can't imagine AOC or any of the Squad doing this, but maybe they would. It just doesn't seem productive when people are decrying divisiveness. I would respect a pol who appears and has a conversation with the president about what his constituents need rather than hawking simplistic messaging.
This is really spot on. Additionally, if someone runs away from Biden, are they running away from the policies he is trying to enact, which are very popular? Regardless of why he is so unpopular now, they should be supporting the things he stands for, even if they are scaled back from what was originally proposed.
It's a truism that, in the House in a first midterm under a new president, voters often shift toward the party out of power. Is that pattern as strong in Senate elections? It certainly wasn't in the first Senate race I worked on in 1970, when Nixon was the novelty and Dems lost 3 Senate seats. This may have had to do with realignment then. What's the modern pattern?
Agreed! Dems need to quit complaining about gerrymandering and voting rights.
Expand get out the vote efforts in contested Senate and House races and get Biden and his base and never Trumpers to respond at the polls. 7 million of us out there.
It would be so nice if just once a politician would decide what they stood for and then ran on that rather than trying to figure out what they think people want to hear and then how they can say that thing that will make them sound better than the other person. I have found that it is super hard to read anyone’s mind but my own.
I liked what Lovett, Favs, and Ben spoke about on the pod yesterday - Dems are diverse, which is their strength. Dems are more representative of the whole country in so many ways - and doing this kind of thing is, in my opinion, a stunt. I can't imagine AOC or any of the Squad doing this, but maybe they would. It just doesn't seem productive when people are decrying divisiveness. I would respect a pol who appears and has a conversation with the president about what his constituents need rather than hawking simplistic messaging.
This is really spot on. Additionally, if someone runs away from Biden, are they running away from the policies he is trying to enact, which are very popular? Regardless of why he is so unpopular now, they should be supporting the things he stands for, even if they are scaled back from what was originally proposed.
It's a truism that, in the House in a first midterm under a new president, voters often shift toward the party out of power. Is that pattern as strong in Senate elections? It certainly wasn't in the first Senate race I worked on in 1970, when Nixon was the novelty and Dems lost 3 Senate seats. This may have had to do with realignment then. What's the modern pattern?
AMEN!
Good advice. I believe the CW is wrong. Democrats are going to pick up seats in both the House and the Senate.
Agreed! Dems need to quit complaining about gerrymandering and voting rights.
Expand get out the vote efforts in contested Senate and House races and get Biden and his base and never Trumpers to respond at the polls. 7 million of us out there.