Screamindemon3
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Trumps awake, here we go.
I don’t know how any centrist can sit here and say what happened is a great result. We have tried the centrist candidate twice now and one lost and the other is going to barely win. Maybe what we think won’t and will work is completely wrong, most people said Trump had no shot in this election and look at how that went. So maybe try a strong progressive and let it fly.
I know lots of people who safely door knocked though. Like, put in hundreds of hours without getting COVID. Not only not door-knocking, not phone banking! The Dems intentionally said we don't need the Latin vote in 2020. The largest minority group in America.
Umm, wasn't pretty much all of it due to the pandemic? Its not like dems said "we don't need to go door-to-door." There was a calculated decision that it was safer and better not to go door-to-door due to COVID, and instead rely on phone banking and other means of contact. That appears to have been the wrong choice, but I have a hard time complaining about people who decided that the safety of campaign volunteers and the voting public was important.
“The Latin vote” is not a monolith. Cubans + Mexicans + Central Americans + Puerto Ricans + South Americans = a really complicated mix of cultures and preferences. If nothing else Dems need to start realizing that there isn’t a “Latin vote” and start thinking about the different groups with in that classification.
Yeah, definitely need to see a strong progressive lose by 15 points.
It really is breathtaking (in a bad way) to think about how close this race is given what an absolute inflammatory dumpster fire clusterfuck of an administration we’ve seen over the last 4 years. COVID response alone should have resulted in a landslide.
COVID response alone should have resulted in a landslide.
This is what is so fucking perplexing.
It really is breathtaking (in a bad way) to think about how close this race is given what an absolute inflammatory dumpster fire clusterfuck of an administration we’ve seen over the last 4 years. COVID response alone should have resulted in a landslide.
This is what is so fucking perplexing.
Dems straight up didn't do the fucking work again in 2020. They didn't knock doors. They didn't hold events. They decided their middle of the road advertising to white Dems would play the same in FL and TX that it did in VA, where they ran the same advertisements. Once again, there were parts of the party screaming at the campaign to do more Latino outreach and the party decided they didn't want to. I can predict the next several weeks too, we will hear this comes down to internet disinformation affecting Latinos, who turned out in great numbers but were DUPED.
It's wild to me that only the Trump 2016 and Trump 2020 campaigns have effectively leveraged microtargeting. Imagine that, different messages to different communities.