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Revisited this New Republic Article from December 2014. Think there's some wishful thinking here but offers an interesting template - Dems should focus efforts on non-voters. "Democrats Can Win the South Again. Here's a Simple Strategy for Hillary 2016." quote:Speaking as a southerner, we need help, not from the DCCC but from government to deal with issues like homelessness and drug addiction. The worst poverty in the United States is in Mississippi, Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina and Louisiana. But no Democratic coalition can make a difference here through policy without the support of southern voters, and the visual reassurance of southern politicians. It draws on some research from this Pew Research study, "The Party of Non-Voters."
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Where should I direct friends who would like to join their local parties but have never been involved in politics before?
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jBrereton posted:The PSL website. Baby steps, they're Democrats! MrCussMustard posted:202-863-8000 is the national # for DNC. If GOP: ecampaign@gop.com Word, grazie.
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Accretionist posted:Also, Global Warming as National Security. Lol Martin O'Malley actually tried that tack during his primary run.
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Joseph Stiglitz has issued his take - How the Democrats can Fix Themselves.Stiglitz posted:I can’t claim to have foreseen the rise of Donald Trump, much less the fact that he would prevail, but in 2011, I published an article in Vanity Fair, titled “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%,” that warned of conditions already existing, and steadily becoming worse, which were unjust in themselves and could easily lead to political instability. The article described the growth of inequality in America and argued that—leaving basic morality aside, as some are perfectly happy to do—it was in the interests of the people at the top of the wealth pyramid to create a more egalitarian society.
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Yglesias is tweeting about a book called "The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality" by Justin Gest. Has anybody read it? The excerpted paragraphs he's posted seem interesting. Also Matty has seemed shockingly competent in responding to the loss and preparing to regroup.
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What should I know about Roy Cooper? Looks like he beat McCrory.
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Joementum posted:That Ross Douthat is the one writing the "maybe the Democrats should give up on identity politics" take should tell you something about it. And Mark Lilla too, the most centrist dweeb of all time.
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David Brock should do his professed causes a favor and drop dead.
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Fried Chicken made a couple posts in the Book Barn like last week.
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LBJ had liberal majorities in both houses which allowed him to implement the Great Society. There's not gonna be a Great Man savior. Gotta get to work down ballot.
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So is Bernie gonna officially join the Dems lol
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MTV News publishes Ezekiel Kweku, who is good. He's @TheShrillest on twitter. Other than that pretty sure it's all trash.
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The Democrats are going to nominate Gary Hart in 2020
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Unions Stake Out Positions in Battle for DNC Chair, up at the American Prospect. Obviously the AFL-CIO has endorsed Ellison already, and the public sector unions are all for him. The Tradesmen are dragging their feet, Firefighters are backing Perez.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Yeah she wants to run as a congressional rep for her district in 2018 Do you know her district?
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Concerned Citizen posted:i like cornel west, but i watched him praise martin o'malley and i couldn't take him seriously anymore. o'malley is a loving fascist Lol when did he do that? Embarrassingly enough I was sort of enthusiastic about O'Malley for a bit this cycle as an alternate to Clinton. This was before Sanders became credible.
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Term limits are bad because without them FDR would still be president.
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Josh Marshall is a huge bitch who melted down about Bernie Bros all election season, so this is funny since he's a failure and a dweeb.
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Concerned Citizen posted:when did he melt down about bernie bros  Joementum posted:May 2015 - present
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Tunicate posted:My grandma was over for Christmas. She said exactly one thing about politics the entire time. When I was canvassing for the general election in West Philly all the old-timers were suuuuuper fired up for Clinton,. Middle aged women as well were very into her and a good number of people from other age groups. But I did talk to some young guys who were skeptical about her for a variety of reasons - one was Bill's crime policies of course, but there was also the refrain that Trump "tells it like it is." I should have countered that of course he doesn't tell it "like it is" but just tells it how it unfolds in his warped mind. But still, there's something to learn here - a plainspoken style rooted in the vernacular can go a long way. Focused on concrete issues, this can benefit Democrats.. Imo, Medicare, Social Security, and the new overtime rules should be the centerpiece of Dem messaging and strategy for 2018, since those all have deep resonance in major Democratic / Clinton strongholds as well as borderline regions lost to Trump. Dems built those programs, they should own them, protect them, and reap the political reward when Paul Ryan and Donald try to destroy them. They can be explained plainly and in layman's terms, and Dems have a chance to "tell it like it is" - i.e., GOP is looking to distmantle cherished protections.
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:(Velvety chuckle) Haha I don't think it's that simple of course, but I guess the point is - West Philly is the black workingclass, not the white workingclass. So, to see some of the same problems there that have been diagnosed in white workingclass districts, to me, shows at least an appropriate direction to go. Have to find a unifying theme.
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It was fake, the Clinton campaign did not actually hire Dan Nainan the 55-year old millennial / 100% clean comedian.
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Obama ran hard on the auto bailout in 2012, which was decidedly not neoliberal imo, and I think it helped him.
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https://twitter.com/msawatta/status/816334414414278657 Who is Zac here? Edit: as in, who is the "Zac" that this email refers to
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Error 404 posted:Zac Petkanas Gracias
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As far as NY pols go, Preet and Schneiderman are good. I'm also a BdB apologist. Cuomo is awful and his "free college" plan is means-tested so it'll collapse as a political project.
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$125k at the household level can mean two parents each working $62.5k jobs. That's gonna eat substantially into the middle class.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:lol middle class continues to have no meaning What definition would exclude a parent making $63 a year?
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Mark Zuckerberg's 2017 Plan To Visit All US States Hints At Political Ambitions loving shoot me
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What's the scoop on Tom Perriello? He might run for Governor in Virgina --> via NYTimes.
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If Bob Dole would have run his Viagra ads as campaign ads he would have won
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Larry Hogan Can Be Beat, by Rachel Cohen for The American Prospect.quote:While I’d never claim that unseating an incumbent governor with high polling would be easy, Hogan’s alleged inevitability needs a reality check. Maryland is a state where Hillary Clinton swept the floor by 26 points. It's a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two-to-one. Let’s be clear: Larry Hogan can be beat. lol they already want to lay down and die, loving pathetic
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yesquote:When Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced in mid-December that he was jumping into the race for Democratic National Committee chair, analysts immediately began to speculate what his motivations could be for challenging Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison. Ellison had already been in the race for a month, and had received diverse endorsements from the AFL-CIO, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, among many others. Was the White House putting Perez up to this, nervous about a key Sanders supporter leading the party? Was this about preserving support from billionaire donors like Haim Saban, who said electing Ellison would be a “disaster” for Democrats? GalacticAcid has issued a correction as of 18:04 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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