• Blackout@kbin.run
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    3 months ago

    Democrats have to do everything perfect to get enough of a coalition to win.

    Republicans can openly be racist, ignorant about the law, trash on veterans/elderly/women, and still are in contention. I think it’s the so-called Christians that are lacking morals.

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      3 months ago

      Interesting myth.

      No. Democrats have had a winning coalition that they refuse to lead with, which has cost them the advantage in 4 years elections since Obama.

      Democrats have winning politics that they refuse to engage in at the head of the party, and instead lead with corporate pay to play politics.

      The only people beating Democrats in elections since Obama is themselves.

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        3 months ago

        The electoral college and 2 senators per state gives the Republicans a huge advantage.

        2 of the last 3 Republican presidential election “wins” lost the popular vote.

        Cornfields, prairie, and deserts have as much representation as NYC and LA.

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          You are just making wrong assumptions about the people that live in those places. Progressive policies are INCREDIBLY (poll at +80%) in those places.

          A strong progressive, Tim Walz, won a rural, cornfield-prarie-desert, district on those policies.

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        3 months ago

        which has cost them the advantage in 4 years elections since Obama

        Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re trying to say here because this sounds incomprehensibly stupid, but just in case… There have been exactly two presidential elections since Obama. Democrats won one and lost the other. Everything else is involves a multitude of candidates voted in strictly at the state or district level.