You mentioned “Dem strategy”. If “they lost” is your detailed critique of “Dem strategy” it’s kinda’ weak.
You mentioned “Dem strategy”. If “they lost” is your detailed critique of “Dem strategy” it’s kinda’ weak.
I'm talking about results here.
Oh, so you can’t define what the Dem strategy was, but they lost, so it was garbage? Say, what if they lost because their candidate was affected by racism and sexism in a 1.4% difference race? Is that still a strategy problem?
Okay fine if you want strategy here's some fucked up strategy. People liked Walz when he was talking shit about the gop and their allies, the dem establishment/strategists didn't like it so they pretty much told him to reign it in. Why do you think he stopped calling them weird?
The dems are constantly shooting themselves in the foot by trying to appeal to nonexistent moderates that would never vote for them instead of just appealing to the people who WOULD vote for them.
“Nonexistent moderates” he calls the single biggest voting block in the country. Yes, we should try to appeal to the ultra fickle who spend their days building purity tests and can’t win an election outside ultra Blue districts. Great plan.
No, they are not the single biggest voting bloc and haven't been for decades since the great sort. They exist as a statistical artifact, because the reaper is afraid to take James Carville, and to enrich David Shor. They aren't a real thing.
Maybe if the people claiming the center doesn’t exist could win an election outside an ultra Blue district, or even win a presidential primary among the voters most likely to be sympathetic to them, others would take them more seriously.
But, if you insist on this nonsensical form of proof, there is an obvious answer: the Tea Party. No political movement this century has been as successful as them when it comes to capturing their party then the government to exert their will. They are the opposite of centrists or moderates.
Statisticians, demographers, pollsters, and political scientists have a plethora of evidence that there is no massive bloc of moderate, independent, centrist voters. That has nothing to do with whether I can win elections using my strategies, it just means yours is premised on a lie.
The Pew Political Typology lists the three middle groups as the outsider left, ambivalent right, and stressed sideliners. None of them are moderate, all three groups just hate both parties. They aren't exactly up for grabs by the other side no matter what you do.