She better be running in the bluest place ever against a raving lunatic.
Maybe she’ll find pockets of ultraviolet.
They have on TWIT every few weeks. From what I can gather, she gets a bump in donations everytime she gets on.
That was a pretty persuasive Vox interview. If she were in my district, I could see myself voting for her. I like that she’s determined to run in the next election no matter what happens in this election, not to mention her stances on health care, women’s reproductive rights, etc…
She finished a distant third last night in the 8th. The Democrat who won (easily) is running unopposed in November.
Weird she must have moved. I used to see her in my Starbucks on the regular. I don’t live in that district she was running in.
Edit: My rep is Katherine Clark and she wrote a very nice letter to my kids when they did a write your congressperson thing for school.
(Personal caveat: Selzer is very smart and she’s very thorough…but her landline-only model has shown some weaknesses in the last 2 years or so. The advice by Nate is good, nonetheless.)
That’s surprising since that is a really blue district and Capuano has a solidly progressive voting record (IOW there wasn’t someone to vote against per se.)
Democratic voters really want change (which is a good thing.)
As long as we don’t wind up with the ‘left-wing tea party’.
What a nightmare scenario that would be, where the nation bounces back and forth between the Trumps and the Jill Steins among us.
There is no such thing. What would that even look like?
Eh, seems like even the Democratic insurgent candidates are pretty solid – certainly not some sort of socialist inverse of Tea Partiers. Ayanna Pressley is a perfect example of someone who leans only slightly more leftward than the incumbent, but seems to better represent her constituents.
The Tea Party was not extremist Republicans–it was mainstream Republicans. It was Republicanism dressed up to look like populism, but aired the same old grievances that the GOP has been propagandizing on for decades. The progressive wing of the Democratic party–you know the folks who want radical things like universal health care, a robust safety net, affordable education, action on climate change and a progressive tax code–is analogous to the Tea Party only in that it is just a bunch of Democrats. The problem with the Tea Party wasn’t that they were an extremist wing of the GOP; it was that the GOP was/is fucking extreme.
The parties are not the same. You can’t make analogies from one to the other. Republicans are cynical, jingoist, luddite lunatics whose rank-and-file just want to see the world burn and whose elites are willing let it in order to lower taxes and loosen regulation. Democrats are a political party who promote a wide range of policies intended to make a society work. It’s apples to oranges.
I think apples to bison might be more accurate, at least since 2016.
Still, while there’s not much of a radical left wing with any sort of power today, I would hate to see a leftist populist like Chavez take control of this country (note that I"m not too worried that’s going to happen anytime in the near future).
You mean libertarians?
I don’t think it’s a bad idea to ask what a leftist tea party would look like. I want to joke that we’d march on Washington not openly carrying the weapons we don’t own, but it deserves to be treated like a serious question.
Over what issues would the left tea party shut down the government? What impolitic behavior or vote from a Democrat in Congress would cause her or him to be primaried by someone to the left? What legislative overreach would they engage in? Would they vote 53 times to repeal the Trump tax cuts even if the Senate were still in the hands of the Republicans and Trump was still waiting with his veto?
LOL! Where’s my like button?