Democrats See Conservative Blue Dogs as Key to Winning House

[Awsi Dooger]

202. Somehow logical strategy is accepted in sports but not politics

If our favorite football team went for it on 4th and 25 every time from deep in our own territory in a tie game, the announcers would be in disbelief and all the arm chair types would go nuts. That's really not much different than force feeding a liberal into a district that will never accept a liberal, but on sites like this the aggressive political masochism is encouraged and applauded.

Beggars can't be choosers and neither can the party with roughly a 9-11% deficit in self-identification numbers between liberals and conservatives nationwide. If it were reversed, if 35% called themselves liberals and 26% called themselves conservatives, then sure we could roll the dice and run anyone we wanted in any state and district. The math and margin for error would take care of themselves. I have to laugh every time someone asserts it's a center left nation. Yeah, if you're moronic enough to rely on issue polling and not self-identification, which dictates how people actually vote.

With the deficit we're stuck and only extremely favorable cycles will allow a chance to hold the House very briefly. That's the reality of the matter.

I say we try. Nominating liberals into the teeth of the ideological headwinds is not trying.