12th July 2018, 5:39 AM
Quote:I don't think so, in states like West Virginia the only way to win is to get a LOT of Trump voters to vote for the Democratic Senate candidate.
I feel like Democrats are doomed to the margins in red states as long as they believe that a failure rate >0% makes a strategy acceptable. There is such extreme reluctance to even try anything different that it makes the party seem to find failure acceptable and that they are content with their second-place status. If you're going to lose an election anyway, at least take the opportunity to display some principles and help normalize left-wing policies by giving them a visible platform especially on economic issues. It won't work right away, but there's no other way to ever effect real change, and the current strategy of being Republican-lite is objectively futile.
Conservative Democratic candidates in red states should only be allowed to run when their overall chance of winning is strong. Keeping a seat out of Republican hands is the only purpose they serve anyone, so they should be sent packing if they do not pose a legitimate threat to do so.
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