What David Shor and his allies get wrong is that you don't message toward what has most salience and does best on issue surveys. You message toward what drives maximum engagement and mobilizes the most passionate negative polarization against your opponent. - ThreadSky

davidoatkins.bsky.social • 21 days ago

What David Shor and his allies get wrong is that you don't message toward what has most salience and does best on issue surveys.

You message toward what drives maximum engagement and mobilizes the most passionate negative polarization against your opponent.

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counterpunkt.bsky.social•21 days ago

If you’re better than David Shor then please convince someone who matters about that instead of talking about it here. The most tiresome conversations on here are about him and how if we just did what someone else said then everything would be better.

owenpick.bsky.social•21 days ago

And that strategy consistently ends up creating the most salient issues.

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•21 days ago

Van Hollen made immigration and due process a salient issue!

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•21 days ago

T H I S

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•21 days ago

I don't even wholly dislike Klein, who once sucked up to Hillary but has recently written valuable analyses of Trumpism (one just this week).
The problem is that the Schumer wing's top priority appears to be ignoring—or actively dissing—anyone who's doing a good job of rousing the people right now.

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•21 days ago

Shor is constantly messaging in the past for a moving target. The electorate does not hold steady political views! It’s complete political ineptitude. And I’m not even all that sure his analysis of the past is that valid.

kevinriggle.bsky.social•21 days ago

Ah. “Let’s skate to where the puck used to be”

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•21 days ago

I’d even argue it’s let’s skate to where I’m disingenuously telling you the puck used to be. I just don’t trust his analysis.

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•21 days ago

💯

beecherbibles56.bsky.social•21 days ago

That doesn’t serve as a post-facto rationalization that supports your specific policy priors, though. Shor is only a popularist insofar as he believes that furthers his own ends, viz., he thinks he can make America socialist by appealing to the right. Winning elections for Dems isn’t his goal.

snake-lloyd-wright.bsky.social•21 days ago

David Shor is like ‘polling shows Americans overwhelmingly rank the economy as more important than puppies being kicked. Therefore, Democrats should consider kicking some puppies.’

catpushmike.bsky.social•21 days ago

Hey here’s a crazy idea. How about messaging on what’s morally right and helps improve communities no matter how it polls ?

startarally.bsky.social•21 days ago

The problem is that his benefactors don’t like where addressing some of those issues would lead us.

ajstravay.bsky.social•20 days ago

Have they even done any work to figure out if anyone gives a shit about issues

senategabe.bsky.social•21 days ago

I mean he's just a grifter. It's not a tactic problem.

alvysinger.bsky.social•21 days ago

Urm, that violates the "never actually enter into conflict because ick" ethos of the DC Dems.

moman.bsky.social•21 days ago

They also don’t understand that if you take away you’re enemy’s strength, they have no where to retreat to

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