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Genki Hikari

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11. The National Democratic party did no such thing
Fri Nov 11, 2022, 07:32 PM
Nov 2022

Y'all just don't get how the DNC operates. They have zero to do with selecting candidates or funding campaigns.

ZERO.

NONE.

NADA.

ZILCH.

They never have.

STATE & LOCAL parties decide what candidates to run. State and local parties do the organizing and GOTV and all the rest for elections held in their state. Including for presidential, Senate and Congressional candidates. The DNC had ZERO to do with who was on any ballot as a D. That was left up to the states.

Funding for campaigns comes from various sources--DSCC, DCCC, and so on. THESE ARE NOT DNC GROUPS. They of course work with the DNC in some ways regarding a particular set of tech/organizing resources, but they are not under the DNC umbrella of organizations. They are independent of the DNC.

Really.

Without going to their site, tell me the names of the grass-roots organizing efforts the DNC is currently doing. Did you even know they were devoting resources to that?

This is the problem with too many Democrats. They "know" a lot of stuff about the party that just ain't so, and what is so about the party, they don't know.

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Yes, yes. We definitely should go to NC, we damn near flipped that seat. Imagine if we had put more onecaliberal Nov 2022 #1
I think what sank us there in 2020 was that the D candidate got caught having an affair or something dsp3000 Nov 2022 #4
That is what happened and it was days before the election. It didn't help that he cozied up to onecaliberal Nov 2022 #7
And yet edhopper Nov 2022 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author edhopper Nov 2022 #16
Every county in every state. We may not flip counties from red to blue, but if we can Atticus Nov 2022 #2
Let's phrase that differently sarisataka Nov 2022 #3
Point taken Tom Rinaldo Nov 2022 #8
There are some high reward/risk states as mentioned in the OP and below usonian Nov 2022 #5
NC for sure! moose65 Nov 2022 #6
The National Democratic party did no such thing Genki Hikari Nov 2022 #11
Whew moose65 Nov 2022 #13
Your analysis seems accurate to me. BlueCheeseAgain Nov 2022 #9
I think North Carolina should be a primary focus. Elessar Zappa Nov 2022 #10
Both Arizona and Georgia need some shoring up, but both have the potential to be reliably blue lees1975 Nov 2022 #12
North Carolina was the one that popped into my head first. Sky Jewels Nov 2022 #14
We have to stay on it in Wisconsin. Captain Zero Nov 2022 #17
Simple: GA, NC, AZ, WI, NH, NV, & 2 split EV districts: NE-2, ME-2. Also completely shore up PA, MI, Celerity Nov 2022 #18
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