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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sorry to say but activists are working harder than our national party. [View all]
Taylor Swift did more for Democrats than the DNC.
I'm convinced once again that our perennial disease of "tone deafness" has taken root at the top.
Did anyone see the NBC News segment doing man on the street interviews at Southern Cal?
Did anyone see the deer in the head lights response when the reporter asked a large group of students "who's voting in Nov"? *crickets*
I've been beating the same drum for weeks...why not a National Rally?
Do this but not that?
I'm pounding the pavement just like many many other DU'ers, doing GOTV.
Many many teevee watchers are only seeing tRump rally's, tRump lies, the Kavanaugh dog and pony show.....
Is it too damn much to ask the national party to show up?
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I'm 74, and yes I agree. tRump burned the playbook....he rules the airwaves and keeps on lying
Ninga
Oct 2018
#2
Perhaps I did not make myself clear. I apologize. My point is that in these inchartered waters
Ninga
Oct 2018
#4
Ok, you win. I'm totally wrong. Democrats are doing enough. We don't need a teevee presence.
Ninga
Oct 2018
#9
No need to get defensive/agressive. You said the party was doing nothing, turns out you were wrong.
emulatorloo
Oct 2018
#17
Either we need a strong national presence or we don't. i didn't say the party was doing nothing.
Ninga
Oct 2018
#20
I am an activist. I marched against the Vietnam War. I understand the value of GOTV. I
Ninga
Oct 2018
#15
People here fundamentally agree with you. It is ok you weren't aware of efforts of the national
emulatorloo
Oct 2018
#19
I don't think a "national strategy" works in midterms - and, in fact is counteroroductivr
EffieBlack
Oct 2018
#25
Respectfully, we have NEVER been through a tRump midterm. We don't know what we don't know,
Ninga
Oct 2018
#26
Because very few people on the ground who haven't decided what they're going to do
EffieBlack
Oct 2018
#27
Valid point. I guess we just disagree that there is no place for a coordinated national message.
Ninga
Oct 2018
#30