People who say 'DU does not reflect Dem voters' are right.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. LOL ...

While I completely agree that the electorate, in general and at large, does not pay much attention to the right/left spectrum when voting ...

And this is where the 'We've got to run more conservative candidates in these districts/states' people simply miss the boat. They're focused solely on the 'left/right' spectrum, and don't think optics actually matters much.

I really don't/haven't see(n) any (many) DUers, even the most 3rd of "3rd-Way Centrist corporate lackeys", saying "We've got to run more conservative candidates" ... But we consistently see DUers arguing that "we've got to run more progressive candidates."
I have seen arguments that "we can't win with more progressive candidates" - which is a slightly different argument.

(Your right/left spectrum bias is showing ... )

I recall a DUer posting a particularly insightful OP in which he/she stated, essentially, the same thing you are postulating: "policy doesn't drive attract/voters, politicians driver voters, and those politicians then drive policy" ... and that OP was widely panned - though I suspect, most of the push-back was because they read the OP as saying, "We've got to run more conservative candidates", which it did not.