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Official Election Month Thread: COUP falls short, nothing to see here

Interesting memo about what down ballot Dems could have done better in their digital advertising.
https://mailchi.mp/d729255095b5/nov17memo?e=5a92d19c79

Economic Messaging Overlooked by Top Races’ Digital Efforts

Yes – AOC, Beto, and Doug Jones are all correct. Democrats can do digital much better. Issues include messaging and execution.

Even cash-rich races’ digital campaigns overlooked key ad networks and, to their detriment, prioritized direct donate ads (to voters in-state!) over persuasion.
  • Of the 23,000 Facebook ads Sara Gideon ran this cycle, zero included written copy with the words “jobs” or “economy”. Note: As of 11/15, Biden got 94,480 more votes than Gideon.
  • In North Carolina: Cunningham used the word “economy” zero times in Facebook ad copy in the month leading up to the election — while running over 700 direct donate ads in-state, despite having a robust national fundraising apparatus. Note: As of 11/15, incumbent D Governor Roy Cooper got 261,307 more votes than Cunningham.
  • Further, Cal Cunningham had one piece of Facebook ad copy (paired with 4 different graphics) that used the word “jobs” (and it was in the context of an in-state direct donate ad!).
  • In key Senate races, ads that did mention jobs or the economy tended to bury that messaging in fundraising campaigns, which are generally targeted to strong partisan voters, already squarely with Democrats. This was a frequent practice of Democratic candidates across competitive Senate and House races.
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One reason people think Republicans are better for jobs and the economy is because Republicans say they're better for jobs and the economy.
 
So dems prioritized money (fundraising) over winning (outreach). As the gop has proven, the grift can't really begin until you win a few times.
 
Yep. There are a lot of good points. Like that Ossoff and Warnock shouldn’t do in-state fundraising because they’re getting plenty of out of state money. The big problem is the party is run by the same people whose only real success has been on the back of Bill Clinton and Obama. Dems need to realize they’re greatly underperforming.
 
Even conservative justices and Kemp have a line they won’t cross. That should tell you just how pathetic this Trump effort is.
 
How would a signature audit even work? The ballots aren’t with the signed envelopes anymore. This is just the plan to invalidate all ballots from counties with a few questionable signatures.
 
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How would a signature audit even work? The ballots aren’t with the signed envelopes anymore. This is just the plan to invalidate all ballots from counties with a few questionable signatures.
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So many of these people have voted absentee and have put zero thought into how their vote would be counted.
 
PhDeac said:
Yep. There are a lot of good points. Like that Ossoff and Warnock shouldn’t do in-state fundraising because they’re getting plenty of out of state money. The big problem is the party is run by the same people whose only real success has been on the back of Bill Clinton and Obama. Dems need to realize they’re greatly underperforming.
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That's what I've been thinking for a long while. Bill Clinton and Obama did fine in their elections, but the Democratic Party, as a party, suffered devastating losses during the administrations of both men. Organizationally the Democratic Party is an incompetent dumpster fire and has been for a long while. They can raise all kinds of money, but it rarely seems to translate in major gains in Congress or especially the statehouses. While some of that is due to extreme gerrymandering, there just is no excuse for the repeatedly miserable performance of Democrats in so many election cycles, especially below the presidential level. They also fail in statewide elections where gerrymandering isn't an issue. As you said, I think much of is due to complacency at the top, as well as the lack of consequences for repeated failures for the people at the top. Whether the party wins or loses, things at the DNC never seem to change, the party's congressional leadership never seems to change, and their tactics and strategy never seems to change.
 
Official Election Month Thread: Drunken morons trying to get on OANN

Yep. That’s why I wouldn’t want Stacey Abrams to run the DNC. She’s successful on her own. I’m starting to believe there shouldn’t even be a centralized Democratic Party organization. Let it just be a bunch of local organizations. Empower organizers and activists. Democrats don’t want a top down authoritarian set up like Republicans have. Don’t force it. Let local leaders lead.
 
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Two dozen armed Trump supporters harassed the Michigan Secretary of State outside her home while we was hanging Christmas lights with her 4 year old.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/07/michigan-sos-benson-armed-protest/

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson had just finished wrapping string lights around her home’s portico on Saturday evening and was about to watch “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” with her 4-year-old son when a crowd of protesters marched up carrying American flags and guns.

About two dozen protesters chanted “Stop the Steal” and accused Benson, a Democrat and Michigan’s chief election officer, of ignoring widespread voter fraud — an echo of President Trump’s continued unfounded claims as he seeks to overturn the results of the election that President-elect Joe Biden won.
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Although the group dispersed with no arrests when police responded just before 10 p.m. Saturday, Michigan state officials accused the group of “terrorizing” Benson’s family.

“They shouted baseless conspiracy theories about the election, and in videos uploaded to social media, at least one individual could be heard shouting ‘you’re murderers’ within earshot of her child’s bedroom,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy (D) said in a joint statement on Sunday. “This mob-like behavior is an affront to basic morality and decency.”

They added that “terrorizing children and families at their own homes is not activism.”

Vitriolic rhetoric has led bipartisan leaders to warn that Trump’s baseless attacks on the election are endangering election officials’ lives. Multiple Michigan officials have reported being threatened and harassed over the election results, as have officials in Georgia, Arizona, Vermont, Kentucky, Minnesota and Colorado.
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Well yeah. The courts are biased against Trump.
 
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