I'd be more excited about primaries as a broad strategy if the culture around losing them were more along the lines of, "I guess the encumbant was popular and understood the district after all"
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Have you ever worked in state level politics? There is a lot of bullshit.
I would argue the more damaging aspect of primaries is the party will seek to undermine a candidate that wins their primary the party doesn’t like in the general. State delegate races in Virginia the party wouldn’t give some
Democratic Party nominees access to voter survey data for example. They would rather candidates that won their parties primary lose to republicans than support them in a general election.
If Feinstein, something of an exceptional case, is all you mean than you should talk about her with language that indicates you understood she was a person worthy of dignity and I won't confuse you for ageist trash!
Well, you referred to a sick woman as a zombie. I would simply try and beat the charges of and ageism in my advocacy for a better Senator, but idk, I'm built different
Yeah, the "Primary everyone!" idea seems like a setup for infighting, adding fuel to the fire.
Spending months financing primary opponents to campaign against incumbent Democrats doesn't strike me as something that improves the party's odds of winning.
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I would argue the more damaging aspect of primaries is the party will seek to undermine a candidate that wins their primary the party doesn’t like in the general. State delegate races in Virginia the party wouldn’t give some
With primaries you have wing nuts dominating the election and leaving only a fellow wing nut to vote for in the general.
Spending months financing primary opponents to campaign against incumbent Democrats doesn't strike me as something that improves the party's odds of winning.
I wish we taught pragmatism in public schools.