The DCCC barely lifted a finger to help James Thompson. He almost won anyway [View all]

[jodymarie aimee]

The DCCC barely lifted a finger to help James Thompson. He almost won anyway. This article is from one of our guys in Wisconsin. And when we had the recall here, Obama famously said he would put his boots on and get signatures with us. But nothing. In the end the national DEMs left us to die, he said it was too partisan. The story of our party, sadly..Now, for Kansas:


National Democrats? Not so much. An election-eve story by CNN, headlined “GOP cavalry heads to Kansas ahead of close House election,” noted, “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is not spending money on this race at all, and even the Kansas State Democratic Party rejected Thompson’s requests for funding for mailers.”

The DCCC made some last-minute calls, and a lot of excuses. There were even those who suggested that the strategy was to “fly under radar”—apparently missing the fact that Republican radar detected what was happening and mobilized at precisely the point when Democrats could have and should have moved money and attention to the race.

Thompson suggested that the tepid level of DC Democratic engagement with the Kansas race reflected “establishment thinking.”


https://www.thenation.com/article/coulda-woulda-shouda-democrats-miss-a-huge-opportunity-in-kansas/