"In my home state of Florida, we’ve seen what happens when we stop listening. Without course corrections, more and more states are going to live through what I have lived through for the last eight years." Take it from someone who knows:
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everything you wrote was true 4 years ago yet Biden won by 7 million votes despite not campaigning due to covid and Biden not being charismatic. And Trump was President who campaigned all out. why did he lose then and win now? it is simple. low info/low propensity voters blame party in power.
the days of Presidential incumbency being an advantage are pretty much over. GOP will scream you aren't better off under a Dem no matter how much you are better off, and there is no chance US will be better off under a GOP President. low info ppl will always blame President for own personal problems
sigh. after 2020 when Biden won by 7 million votes did GOP scream "we are on the road to oblivion"? no, they doubled down. Biden wasn't some charismatic once in a lifetime pol. he barely campaigned due to covid while Trump went all out. places aren't fixed in stone. cherry picking is meaningless.
in 2004 VA and CO were solidly in red column, GWB won GA by 16% NC by 13% AZ by 10%. GWB won by 3M votes. those areas are all much bluer now than then. Chester county in PA went for GWB by 4.5%, it has BA or better at 56%, it went to Harris by 14.4%, that is a swing of 18.9% in 20 years.
This is wrong. We lost because there are still too many people that will not elect a woman to be president. The people that didn't vote for Harris also didn't vote for Trump. Had it been Kenneth Harris not Kamala Harris, Trump would not be an upcoming dictator. Just a fact.
Useful analysis. Largely true. But as a grassroots party volunteer, I see local & state Dems listening intently & responding to constituents, & winning elections. I also see a tsunami of MAGA propaganda washing away the national Dem message in presidential elections.
In nearly every presidential election of my lifetime, the winning candidate has been the one more voters perceive as a disruptor of the status quo. Trump disproportionately benefits from that as a candidate. The next GOP nominee will not.
Hillary Clinton is one of most intelligent POTUS candidates ever.
One of many examples. -- Hillary Clinton said natural gas is a bridge fuel. She was right. No f...ing way wind and solar is going to power this economy.
NO DEMOCRAT in 2024 acknowledged that nat gas is essential fuel going forward.
This is an absurd notion. The GOP has had a trifecta in FL since 98. At best, the Dems could compete for the top of the ticket during favorable cycles. But FL always had its uniqueness with the obsession behind socialism in LatAm. The Dems lost an election, sure. But they're a healthy party.
Content delivery is definitely one pillar of the approach. But beyond that folks need to get a lot better at using the "law as written" to their advantage.
Let their strict literalism come back to bite them...
Part of what makes FL unique, is who moved here. In the last 5 years, our population had grown. But it’s overwhelmingly right leaning transplants. The GOP party registration has swelled by 1M voted while the dem registration has languished.
The media isn’t helping either, as they whitewash the Felon-Elect, allowing him to brazenly lie in all of his interviews without anyone bothering to fact check him. I just don’t get it.
Democrats are at a universal and inherent disadvantage since trump. Truth and reality binds them. Not so for the GOP. I'm not sure anything can fix people unwilling to care about reality.
I live in Florida. A big part of the collapse here is population migration. A lot of MAGA moved here over the past 6 years to be near their cult leader. To turn it around you'd have to be an expert in cult deprogramming.
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One of many examples. -- Hillary Clinton said natural gas is a bridge fuel. She was right. No f...ing way wind and solar is going to power this economy.
NO DEMOCRAT in 2024 acknowledged that nat gas is essential fuel going forward.
Let their strict literalism come back to bite them...
billions of dollars spent on elections it perpetuate corruption.