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Liberal candidates cost Democrats votes in key 2020 races, a post-election study suggests
Kansascity.com ^ | 3/25/21 | Alex Roarty

Posted on 03/25/2021 3:48:04 AM PDT by cotton1706

Moderate Democratic candidates outperformed their liberal counterparts in key 2020 U.S. House elections, according to a new analysis from a center-left think tank, coming closer to matching President Joe Biden’s performance in swing districts as many progressive favorites lagged much further behind.

Officials from the think tank Third Way who analyzed the data said the findings should serve as a lesson for Democrats that strongly liberal candidates make for weaker nominees in the most important congressional races, and that the best option for the party in the 2022 midterm elections is to closely embrace Biden and his political agenda.

“Republicans were calling everyone a socialist. They were using the same attacks everywhere,” said Matt Bennett, Third Way’s co-founder. “But it stuck in places where it was closer to the truth for some than others.”

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
It's going to be interesting watching this dynamic play out.

THIS is why they are desperate to pass their election takeover bill.

1 posted on 03/25/2021 3:48:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

In other words, the study tells the Democratic candidates to lie more and better.


2 posted on 03/25/2021 3:50:25 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: cotton1706
Liberal candidates cost Democrats votes in key 2020 races, a post-election study suggests,

Oh, that's OK. They figured out a way around that pesky problem.

3 posted on 03/25/2021 3:50:54 AM PDT by Turbo Pig
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To: cotton1706

How many ballots just had Biden filled in and nothing down ballot?


4 posted on 03/25/2021 3:58:04 AM PDT by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: cotton1706

the lousier the candidate the more gross and obvious the vote fraud gets to be to drag them over the line...I get it.


5 posted on 03/25/2021 4:05:10 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: cotton1706

Haven’t we learned anything from THE BIG STEAL last November 3d?

Democrats don’t really care about legal votes anymore.

The Supreme Court has given them free rein to create all the votes they need.


6 posted on 03/25/2021 4:08:36 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose is to force capitulation. — Adolf Hitler,)
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To: Turbo Pig

That’s why the Ranked Choice Voting provisions are in HR1.


7 posted on 03/25/2021 4:09:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

the UNIPARTY could care less about legal votes...in fact they cannot win an election legitimately


8 posted on 03/25/2021 4:14:27 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: cotton1706

I wish we at least got the house. We must get it in 2022. At least we will stop the worst bills.


9 posted on 03/25/2021 4:20:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: mewzilla
Ranked Choice Voting is Democrats' most insidious way to steal an election. Illustrates the Dems' dizzy mindset.

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A ranked-choice voting system (RCV) is an electoral system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a.majority of first-preference votes, he or she is declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated.

First-preference votes cast for the failed candidate are eliminated, lifting the second-preference choices indicated on those ballots. A new tally is conducted to determine whether any candidate has won a majority of the adjusted votes. The process is repeated until a candidate wins an outright majority.

10 posted on 03/25/2021 5:06:11 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: freedom1st

That is only because the DemonicRats didn’t have time to cheat on every race.
After they pass HR-1; they will have the results of the next election boxed up and ready by the end of the year.


11 posted on 03/25/2021 7:42:50 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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To: cotton1706

Liberal candidates are like glitter to a K’1 student you can sprinkle it all over the place and say isn’t that better.


12 posted on 03/25/2021 9:45:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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