The problem is NOT the Democratic party

[BainsBane]

It's Trump voters. Do you really want to appeal to people who are attracted by a narcissistic, racist, traitor? Joe Biden has been an excellent candidate, and he is winning. Some of the other races are a disappointment, but I can't believe there is anything we can do to appeal to them that wouldn't be thoroughly immoral and disgusting.

[niyad]

1. You are absolutely correct.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

2. You're correct-the problem is the GOP has gone off the rails n/t

[Dem2]

3. We have learned why populism can be so dangerous

Seems the right and populism don't mix well.

[BainsBane]

6. It does precisely as it is designed

to suck people in through appeal to a charismatic leader that, in most cases, maintains the system. In Trump's case, it feeds Trump.

[mopinko]

4. it's touchscreens.

paper ballots, not vapor ballots.
early voting in most places is touch screen, even if day of isnt.

[rzemanfl]

7. +1,000. n/t

[BainsBane]

8. Not necessarily

Here in MN, early votes are paper ballots. Day of ballots are also paper, and the voter feeds them through a scantron machine.

I think we have to admit there is something truly fucked up about nearly half of the American people.

[mopinko]

9. and we won minnesota.

wake up.

[BainsBane]

10. The claim that an election is rigged if we don't win

Is exactly what we hear from the White House.

[BainsBane]

11. 14 states

use touchscreens.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article207851784.html

[mopinko]

17. illinois uses paper on election day, but early voting is touchscreen,

i would assume it is the same in most states.
you just cant have a few polling elections w multiple ballots.
it is too likely to be f'd up. touchscreen displays all ballot configurations.

but if it makes you feel better to overestimate the number of jerks in the populace instead of criminals in the thug party, go ahead on.

[BainsBane]

20. There is evidence of jerks

I have yet to see evidence of rigged elections in the deep red states you insist were stolen from us.

[BainsBane]

21. Then there is the fact

Dems largely voted by absentee, paper ballots everywhere.

[cilla4progress]

5. This has to be our

Mantra.

AOC said something like this about McCaskill's comment last night.

[milestogo]

12. Yeah, and I'm tired of Claire McCaskill saying it is.

I'm tired of her commentary on MSNBC. She never says anything new or interesting.

[JI7]

13. We also would have won bigger if we had a Ground Campaign

Of course Biden cares about those working for him, volunteers and supporters so he wasn't going to have them risk their lives .

But this is an important point to consider and how we could have gotten more votes if we had done that.

The ground campaign applies to other races also .

People like Beto O'Rourke and Stacey Abrams are working hard to help build our party up . Even when they lost they continued to fight harder including for other democrats .

That's what we need to do .

[BainsBane]

18. They had extensive organization

In the states. It simply wasn't practical to do door knocking in the age of COVID. They used other methods to reach out to voters. Here they were even giving voters rides to the polls.

I will say their data for the phone bank system sucked, and the thru talk dailer never worked. So much so they completely gave up on it for GOTV. God knows how many millions they spent on that thing.

[JI7]

22. I agree, i'm not saying we should have done that

just that it's one of the reasons we didn't get higher numbers.

[relayerbob]

14. EXACTLY CORRECT

The Democrats did everything prety close to righ. Yes, some slipups, but the fact is, a huge number of people PREFER the autocracy and chaos, and/or are gullible to open lies. Period. The only ones to blame for all of this is *THEM*

[bullwinkle428]

16. In Iowa, shit loads of younger right-wingers from rural areas cast their first votes for Trump.

His vote total went from 800,000 in 2016 to 890,000 in 2020. If they're all getting sucked into this QAnon bullshit, I have no desire to reach out in an effort to appeal to them in any way.

[BainsBane]

19. Iowa seems to be getting

increasingly conservative.