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In reply to the discussion: AOC: Why do we listen to people who lost elections as if they are experts in winning elections? [View all]Celerity
(44,481 posts)Stacey Abram is not a centrist moderate btw (and yes, I love her and wished she had run versus the worm Perdue or the uber thugette criminal vermin Loeffler, but she did heavy-lifting in other ways so not a total loss) She transcends labels, IMHO.
The biggest problem was the horrific recruiting by Schumer and Cortez Masto.
we only had THREE (out the 13 flappable races) races where we had our strongest candidate
AZ win
CO win
MT (and Bullock could have won if he had not been cash-starved (for instance millions of people tossing away over 200 million USD to the fantasyland KY and SC races, as he was leading up until RW dark money dropped in well over 50 million USD to falsely smear him as a commie, and he did not have the cash to truly fight back) I max out to him and Pete, the only two Dems I maxed out on, other than Biden. So frustrated, as Daines is a true POS.
that leaves (none of these had the strongest candidate)
TX I understand why Beto did not run, but the plain fact is, he was the best shot, Hegar was a poor candidate, and an ex-Repub, and tbh, should not even have been in the mix, as she might have (proably would have perhaps) won in 2018 for the US House, if DINO forced-birther, anti-immigrant anti-LGBTQ bigot Henry Cuellar (who almost lost just now in 2020, we really need to primary him out in 2022) had not back-stabbed Hegar and the Party and actively campaigned and fund-raised for her Rethug, racist, climate change denying, forced birther, rabid anti-immigrant, gay-bashing opponent, John Carter.
KY (Beshear would have been best, but he ran and won the Governor race) Charles Booker would have won the primary if it had been a month later, and would have done better versus Moscow McTurtle, I am very sure, than McGrath, who started her campaign in true 'look at me I am so centrist' mode by saying she would have supported and voted for drunk-rapey Kavanaugh (disastrous move, it demoralised the Dem base so much)
TN Tim McGraw is one of the ones (probably the number one) I am most irate at for turning down running, as he has now TWICE, in 2 years turned down OPEN SEAT RACES (he would have easily won in 2018, Blue wave and a SHIT opponent in wingnut and genuinely stupid (up there with Daines (MT), Ernst, and Ron Johnson for the least intelligent US Senator) Marsha Blackburn, after promising for the past 2 decades he would run for TN US Senate when he was 50 and he is 53 now) I am just FURIOUS with McGraw
NC 2 more huge turn-downs, Foxx and Stein, that I am so upset with, as Cunningham was the weakest by far, and blew an easy pick off versus the horrid and oh-so-vulnerable Tillis, in good deal due to his damn sex scandal
AK we did not even field a candidate! Begich, who WAS a Dem US Senator, refused to run, ffs
ME Susan Rice, grr, she would have smashed the fuckstick Collins, Gideon was not at Rice's level
IA another blown opportunity, Vilsack would have won, and yet said nope, same for (probably) Chet Culver and maybe even Cindy Axne. Greenfield was the weakest of all 4 IMHO
GA Special and GA Regular (we still have a shot at each, woot) All things weighed up, Stacey Abrams and Sally Yates would have had the best chances IMHO, both said nope.
KS another one I am raging on, Sibelius was BY FAR our best shot, the major papers said she was not only the only Dem who could win, but that she probably would win, and she flat out said NO, grrrrrr Bollier, another ex Rethug (can we stop running recently ex Rethugs!) lost and it was not that close.
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