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zipplewrath

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4. Kinda the smae outcome either way

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 5, 2017, 01:14 PM

Aug 2017

Seems like everyone is claiming the same outcome regardless of strategy. Either we run progressive candidates, and lose. Or we run moderate candidates, and lose. Either way "solidly red districts" aren't gonna vote for moderate OR progressive candidates that have a D after their name.

So then the question becomes what should national democrats do in such races?

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Fielding anti-choice candidates isn't going to fool anyone [View all] marylandblue Aug 2017 OP

A voice of reason wryter2000 Aug 2017 #1

By the same token, if a far left candidate runs in a red district that will get clobbered. tonyt53 Aug 2017 #2

Kinda the smae outcome either way zipplewrath Aug 2017 #4

Most votes are a complex choice forced into a binary box marylandblue Aug 2017 #8

Exactly! Phoenix61 Aug 2017 #3

A moderate pro-choice Republican will vote against very conservative judges, mr_liberal Aug 2017 #5

No Republican voted against Gorsuch marylandblue Aug 2017 #6

Because he didnt change the balance of the court. mr_liberal Aug 2017 #7

I bet she votes party line, but we'll see marylandblue Aug 2017 #9

Murkowski is probably it. There aren't many moderate republicans left. mr_liberal Aug 2017 #11

Good point, the right would still vote against them YCHDT Aug 2017 #10