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28. Where is the party's list of progressives ANYWHERE? Do they have one? How about NJ?

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 11:30 AM

Dec 2014

They managed to hand the governorship to a REPUBLICAN in a Blue STate by refusing to help their OWN Progressive Candidate who had a great chance of defeating Christie at that time as he was very vulnerable due to his mishandling of Sandy.

But they pretended he could not be beaten so it wasn't worth the effort and over 60 DEMS IN A BLUE STATE ignored their own candidate, BETRAYED HER and ENDORSED the Republican.

How bad do you have to be to literally HAND OVER a Blue State to a right wing Republican?

I remember how they loved Christie though. 'He's so moderate'!! and Dems didn't know what to do, if their own party is pushing the Republican, in a state where a majority of voters are Democrats?

That race alone told me all I need to know about the current leadership of our party.

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A question for knowledgeable DUers...? [View all] kentuck Dec 2014 OP

No matter the region, skin color, religion, politics people can feel what happens liberal_at_heart Dec 2014 #1

Excellent post! This notion that good Dems 'can't win' in certain states is nonsense. Dems sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #19

I would caution against drawing broad conclusions from this. CBHagman Dec 2014 #2

Resume Howard Dean's 50 state strategy, elleng Dec 2014 #3

Just because something works well, it doesn't mean it shouldn't MannyGoldstein Dec 2014 #4

'Better things' don't lead to failure. elleng Dec 2014 #5

I think the 50-State strategy was a good thing... truebluegreen Dec 2014 #30

After Dems won everything in 2008 people were hopeful for real change. But then people were told sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #6

so why did Andrew Cuomo get re-elected in New York ? JI7 Dec 2014 #7

Same reason Landrieu won before Dem voters had had enough. sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #9

there are a lot more democrats in ny , if dems don't support how could he not only win the election JI7 Dec 2014 #10

Upstate NY is not Democratic, neither is Nassau Co. The perception that NY is liberal is sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #11

but governors are elected by the entire state, and the other guy got like 80 percent of republican JI7 Dec 2014 #12

Excuse me, I think I already said that Republicans support him. Are you saying that we Dems sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #13

no, i said the Republican got 80 percent of Republican support, so you are wrong in claiming JI7 Dec 2014 #14

Cuomo won because the other guy was so bad the people were left with no choice. sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #23

if democrats didn't want cuomo JI7 Dec 2014 #24

Do you like to see Dems losing, both Congress and now the Senate? sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #25

cuomo wasn't running for congress JI7 Dec 2014 #26

We lost due to Third Way policies, period. Now it's time to return to the Party's sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #27

cuomo did not lose the elEction JI7 Dec 2014 #29

Cuomo played dirty. He wouldn't debate Teachout. He said it wavesofeuphoria Dec 2014 #31

he still got most democratic support JI7 Dec 2014 #32

if their interest is hating black people they are voting their interest by electing teabaggers JI7 Dec 2014 #8

I love your post sabrina. I think you are spot on. liberal_at_heart Dec 2014 #16

Another excellent post from one of DU's finest members. Thanks sabrina 1. Scuba Dec 2014 #21

No Dems at all left in the South moderate or otherwise Man from Pickens Dec 2014 #15

well, there is still hfojvt Dec 2014 #17

Well there's still Tester Recursion Dec 2014 #18

Do you ever feel that you are throwing meringues into a black hole? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2014 #20

Where is your list of progressive candidates for those states? JoePhilly Dec 2014 #22

Where is the party's list of progressives ANYWHERE? Do they have one? How about NJ? sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #28

Of course they should not 'give up' on states. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #33

I'm not 100 percent sure madokie Dec 2014 #34