Left Loses Momentum

[applegrove]

Left Loses Momentum

July 31, 2022 at 9:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/31/left-loses-momentum/

"SNIP......


An Axios analysis shows the moderate candidate won 14 of 22 congressional primaries this year, when a progressive candidate challenged a more moderate candidate in seats Dems can win.

That’s almost two-thirds of the time.

.......SNIP"

[Sympthsical]

1. Would be interesting to know how much money was spent

You have cases like Cuellar where the Establishment came in and threw national money at the conservative to make sure the progressive went down.

That sort of thing matters. Power is not dislodged easily.

Wonder what the dollar numbers look like.

[lapucelle]

5. Open Secrets has the numbers.

Jessica Cisneros
Raised $6,480.448
Spent $6,084,438

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/alsorun?cid=N00044798&cycle=2022

Henry Cuellar
Raised $3,281,013
Spent $4,593,795

https://www.opensecrets.org/races/candidates?cycle=2022&id=TX28

Outside Spending
For Jessica Cisneros, $2,151,359
Against Jessca Cisneros $1,431,993

For Henry Cuellar $1,528,061
Against Henry Cuellar $1,193,726

https://www.opensecrets.org/races/outside-spending?cycle=2022&id=TX28&spec=N

[betsuni]

7. Interesting. Cisneros had a lot more money. Maybe voters had more to do with it?

Teh Establishment must be very very bad! Throwing money at people like that.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Weird.

The middle doesn't really exist. There's the far right - moderate right - moderate left - far left. But why don't I know any far left intellectuals and analysts? Because they are all in moderately left. We have no one flinging monkey shit like new Republican Party.

[Wounded Bear]

3. But is it in disarray?

[mahina]

9. Right!?

🙌🙌🤙🏼🤙🏼😊

[brooklynite]

4. I would argue that, as far as electoral politics goes, they haven't had momentum...

Thy pick up open seats in absolutely safe Democratic district. That’s about it.

[bottomofthehill]

6. And challenge hood democrats in safe districts.

[mahina]

8. Shya right.

I don’t think so.

[UTUSN]

10. Whiplash, just yesterday we were riding a wave!1 - Can't wait for actual early voting in Oct

[W_HAMILTON]

11. Many of the so-called moderates are just more moderate than the hardcore progressives.

But they are still very much progressive, or at least vote with us when it matters most (a few do not, but you already know their names).

Also, Fetterman beat the odds by being the hardcore progressive that beat the moderate. You know why, in part, I think that was? He wasn't focused on attacking his fellow Democrats like some on the hardcore left think they need to do. He was mostly attacking REPUBLICANS and stating what he was for. More hardcore progressives should do that instead of attacking good Democrats and trying to slur them as some sort of corrupted corporatist blah blah blah.