Is anyone here in favor of third way/new democrats?

[joshcryer]

31. The main cause is not being inspired by the candidate.

John Bel Edwards is the best example, from a political party standpoint he's against the platform on several issues, so he's a compromise choice. In the North he'd be a staunch republican.

From a local state perspective he represents southern values well. 80% or something like that are anti choice there. So local state democrats loved him for that. Moderates championed him. Liberals held him to his promise to expand Medicaid. He got 200k people on the rolls in his first days of office (executive order). He literally saved lives.

It's a self perpetrating loop, you say someone is the pragmatic choice, no one is inspired, and no one is inspired if they are the compromise choice. Instead, we should judge them on the merits and go with it.

You know why Mark Udall lost? Because he went for banning high capacity magazines. Took courage. It shows that certain contingency is not reliable at all. Pandering to them has its costs in midterms. I still respect the hell out of Mark for doing it.