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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 08:06 AM Feb 2020

There's too much policy talk. No candidate is running on his or her story.

This worries me. Candidates talking policy change the platform, which is important, but candidates who tell their own story win, and we don't have anybody doing that. The closest was Beto, and he wasn't doing it very well.

Back in 2008 when I was volunteering in Ohio and Pennsylvania for Obama they kept telling us to stay off policies. Tell people we were talking to that they can see all the policies they want on the website, but remember that that's not what wins voters. Voters respond to stories. Obama's campaign was about his story, and so our pitches as we knocked on doors should be about our stories: how we came to join the campaign, what it has meant to us to meet and talk to people, why we feel this is important enough to stand out in the rain. That's what wins voters.

I'm still worried and disappointed that we don't have a "story" candidate or even one who looks like he or she will turn into one.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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There's too much policy talk. No candidate is running on his or her story. (Original Post) Recursion Feb 2020 OP
Go hear Warren speak she's got a great story, and she spends a lot of time telling it. Agschmid Feb 2020 #1
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #2
Policy first for me, but Warren has a great story, too. blm Feb 2020 #3
Warren and Pete for starters MoonlitKnight Feb 2020 #4
 

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
1. Go hear Warren speak she's got a great story, and she spends a lot of time telling it.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 08:08 AM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

Response to Recursion (Original post)

 

blm

(112,920 posts)
3. Policy first for me, but Warren has a great story, too.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 08:49 AM
Feb 2020

She’s the anticorruption fighter we need against a most corrupt Trump.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

MoonlitKnight

(1,584 posts)
4. Warren and Pete for starters
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 10:32 AM
Feb 2020

Both had great speeches with great stories. Biden gets made fun of for his stories. Yang has some great ideas to consider but isn’t Presidential.

The debates have been awful trying to create drama for ratings.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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