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In reply to the discussion: In 18 years since Naders run, what has been accomplished by attacking the Dem party from the left? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(BTW, the OP in that thread rejects the idea that Hillary lost for being "too far left", as do the overwhelming majority of the posters there. She didn't mention any of the left items in the platform during the fall campaign, btw, so how could those ideas have cost us votes?)
You don't need to accuse me of being delusional or of not being involved in real politics to do so, however.
I'm not scared to do anything...I just don't feel obligated to take orders from you.
I want to win just as much as you do...it's just that we can't win by blurring the differences and promising not to disagree with the Right all that much. There's no huge bloc of voters who'd swing to us if only the national party said "fuck the left-we're going back to 1992". Nor did the polls in the spring of 2008 ever show Hillary, who ran to Obama's right in general, doing better against the GOP in the fall.
As to the Montana result...the progressive candidate lost by only six points, compared to the twenty point margin the centrist candidate lost by in 2016. We gained as much ground there as we could(and as much ground as Ossoff gained in the Georgia 6th, for that matter).
And the assault on the reporter happened on election eve-Montana has mail-in voting and by that point most of the voters had already voted.
It was never a seat we were likely to actually gain.