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1. Won't matter bc elections like this are decided by TURNOUT: the % of R ballots, relative to the % of D ballots.
Nothing disproves the death of "persuasion" elections more than the fact that the GOPs still competitive to win GA after their coup attempts & corrupt pardons. https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1341932928452993024
Nothing disproves the death of "persuasion" elections more than the fact that the GOPs still competitive to win GA after their coup attempts & corrupt pardons. https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1341932928452993024
2. Doesn't anyone else think it's odd that you've got one political party that completely abandoned the middle of the electorate- going on a decade now- and yet they're always competitive and often win? Shouldn't happen if Indies are the big deciders. Now, I attribute some of
3. this to electioneering incompetence- the Ds current persuasion messaging is weak & fails to disqualify the GOP as the GOP's messaging does to Ds. + Ds assume average people follow news and know that Trump & the Rs are corrupt, doing things no one has ever done to our democracy
4. and have become a radicalized party- that they don't need to cover that stuff in their election materials bc people only mention that stuff low on the list. But that's bc they're not primed to prioritize that stuff. Why did R voters care SO MUCH about Benghazi- bc our embassy
5. got attacked & 3 Americans died or bc the GOP strategically used (abused) their control of the House Oversight Committee to harass the Ds expected '16 nominee w 9, yes 9 Benghazi committees which succeeded in their purpose- task Clinton's approval #'s by making Benghazi a top
6. issue priority among conservatives & to create doubts about her about Indies. Think of all the shit Trump did & how Benghazi pales in comparison to most of it yet by intentionally making it a big deal, everyone & your brother knows the word Benghazi. It's actually remarkable
7. By the traditional theories of elections, the GOP would have gotten hammered7 across the board in the fall, and not in close elections either. You had an incumbent
literally getting hundreds of thousands of people killed via things that were clearly associated to his party
literally getting hundreds of thousands of people killed via things that were clearly associated to his party
7. yet, that party appeared to be fairly competitve? That's not what's supposed to happen! Watch! If you take the pardon power and just completely abuse it in the most grotesque way possible & at the same time screw over the troops while at the same time screw over virtually
8. Everyone on covid relief they've already waited months on, your party should suffer bc the median voter/ middle of the electorate should turn heavily against you. But that won't happen & since partisanship matters so much, turnout is what will matter to the GA outcomes
