Why can't we ask better of a party that wants our votes, money, and volunteer hours? Post-2016, the DNC has the weirdest possible relationship with its voters, leaning REAL hard into the "Well, it's us or Comcast" of the whole party duopoly system, and is only made them electorally weaker. The GOP is running a man with 40% approval defending Dobbs, which cuts 60+/40- our way. That we're not looking at a UK this year-style electoral massacre is an indictment of the DNC, and how the state recognized duopoly system squashes real democracy.
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Given the 200 year long Al Saud/Bush family connection, and the key role we now know Saudi intelligence played in providing material support for the attacks on 9/11, it wouldn't be crazy to assume it wouldn't have happened at all under Gore. Even assuming the Bushes weren't complicit with their long time friends, it was known and reported at the time that while Clinton was very focused on Bin Laden, W thought it was a distraction before 9/11.
A primary hones a candidate and a party's messaging. The idea that it weakens you is perpetuated by the PR execs who run the DNC, because they don't want to need to deal with internal discontent about them being shit at running a political party. How much free earned media did Trump get, looking like a winner, defeating his opponents? You can't buy that kind of media. But the DNC prefers media cycles of "Man accused of rigging last election won't even allow a primary vote in 5+ states." It's just bad optics, pure and simple, and is part of why Biden's approval is in the 30's. America has never seen him run a non-basement campaign, where he actually tries to earn their votes, since he was calling voters "fats" and challenging them to fist fights in January of 2020.
Well we all know that's just because their minds were poisoned by having a primary. Thankfully the party has moved beyond that and now just ordains who we will vote for at the party level.
Remember the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) Hillary thing in 2008 after she lost the primary and was like "Actually John McCain is an honorable man and I'm glad I ran a SUPER racist campaign?" They and Liz Cheney are just the whole party now. I guess we'll see how "aggrieved woman, angry at you for voting wrong," does in November as a party platform. I'm optimistic!
My favorite thing about Rishi is he Littlefingered BoJo to try to become a billionaire with that India deal he never got done. So while he will never be rendered un-rich, he will be forever known as the Tory PM that almost ended the party, assuming they even survive, and he won't even get a billion pounds. #winning
Or, maybe, nobody wants to vote for Lo Fat, Tropical Blast, Pride Month GOP when original flavor is still available at stores
Exactly! This is how voter outreach works! Negging!
Hochul was chosen by Cuomo to be such an unthinkable choice for governor that he could never be impeached. Now, because the DNC doesn't do primaries (except when Israel wants someone's head) she's governor for life.