Posted on 04/26/2018 5:17:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Money, message and ultimately the map, in equal measures.
That’s what wins political campaigns.
You can’t win modern campaign without money. It’s necessary to pay professional campaign staff, to mobilize voters, to run advertisements, to get your message out. But money by itself is not enough. Just ask President Phil Gramm or President Jeb Bush.
You need to have the right message to fit the right time.
You can have great qualifications and a huge Rolodex, but if you can’t articulate simply and effectively what you want to do once you gain the political office you seek, you won’t win.
But for the message and the money to have an impact, you must have voters that are willing to hear what you are saying. That’s what makes the political map so very important, especially in congressional races.
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But money by itself is not enough. Just ask President Phil Gramm or President Jeb Bush.
Hillary is a walking advertisement for why we don’t need campaign finance reform.
If they had been smart in the spring of 2017, they would have formed up...gotten a joint message, and pushed forward for a new party without Hillary or Obama. Instead, they’ve wasted 15 months now. I don’t see their funding pot filling by November, and they still don’t realize the need for one comprehensive message from the party.
The only Dem wave you are gonna see is them waving as they fade into the distance as they say goodbye.
I honestly think a huge part of their problem is that now that the MSM has so little power, and everything is so well vetted and fact checked (relative to the past), that not enough people buy any real solutions they bring to the table. Their only draw is “vote for us because we hate trump too.”
That’s not enough to win.
I think history is on the dems side.
Blue districts will get high turnout motivated blue voters. Red districts will get high turnout motivated red voters.
Senate GOP +9
House GOP + 5/10
Insanity to follow.
First, funding.
0bama funneled BILLIONS in government law case settlements to leftist activist organizations, like the Southern Poverty Law Center. That money will find its way back to the democrat party as needed.
Second, advertising.
The democrat party enjoys 24/7 free advertising from the legacy press. No real need for them to buy a lot more.
The biggest problem with the Dems, is they’ve become a collection for the most narrow special interest groups, instead of a political party. It’s all about Blacks, LGBTQLMNOP, SJW’s and radical feminists. They forgot who put and kept them in power in congress for 40 plus years, the White working class. The GOP-E isn’t much better, but at least they aren’t overtly anti American. The Dems can cobble together enough of these folks to win here and there, but there is no Blue Wave, add to that, if Trump can get the Rust Belt reliably voting GOP, the Dems are done as a National Party, unless they manage to turn Texas Blue.
A lotta Dems voted for Trump. The party is terrified those Dems will keep doing it.
“they still don’t realize the need for one comprehensive message from the party.”
I think they realize the need for a single message, but given their constituents what would that message be? Blacks want it to be about blacks. Same for the alphabet people. Speaking of the alphabet people, each letter is a totally different constituency and even they don’t play well together. Then there are the vile ticks who hang onto the party for the blood the party lets them suck out of the rest of us; a message that resonates with them will turn off just about everybody else. Politics used to be about finding a message that attracts 51% of the voters. Now it’s about dividing the vote such that you have 51% of what’s left over. But continuing to promise the same stuff time after time and then not delivering it is finally costing the Democrats their coalition.
When the Democratic constituency was all the (horribly oppressed, of course) white and black workers the message was easy and they delivered on it time after time. But those same voters are now all evil to the new constituents; you know, the constituents who can’t stand each other and have nothing in common...those constituents.
Pulling off a wave would require the Dems to replicate the Rahm Emmanuel strategy of ‘06. Find a bunch of Conor Lambs and run them in red and purple districts.
Fortunately their whackjob base is not going to let them do that. Tom Steyer will be flooding the airwaves with ads, ripping Tom Perez and Keith Ellison to shreds if they try.
The only way there could be a Democrat “wave” is if the Republicans allow it (and I wouldn’t put that theory away, either).
There is more than enough crazy, melt-down, behavior on tape now to swing the election away from Democrats for a generation.
The question is, do the Republicans have the balls to use it...
...and do they want to?
No need to quake in fear, but Republicans do have problems with complacency and funding disparity. They need to get into permanent campaign mode. No more business as usual.
They took losing the “white vote” or “White Middle Class vote” too lightly. Who could belong to a party that filed that idiotic lawsuit the DNC did last week? For me, if I were a faithful lifelong Dem, that would have been the last straw.
No Wall, no Congress.
Fortunately their whackjob base is not going to let them do that. Tom Steyer will be flooding the airwaves with ads, ripping Tom Perez and Keith Ellison to shreds if they try.
Voters didn't even nominate Conor Lamb, he was just chosen
That won't happen again, voters will be picking the most radical leftists lol
Except not many people listening anymore.
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