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Liberal Cynic's avatar

Which is why the Virginia GOP had to pull some backroom tricks and deals to get Youngkin as their candidate because even they know that they can't trust their own voters not to side with the craziest and most dangerous motherfucker out there.

Because the GOP is letting their primary voters pick the candidates for the general election is why I am very optimistic about the Dems keeping the House and expanding their lead in the Senate.

As the Bible says, dogs return to their own vomit.

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Bonnie's avatar

I agree with you on lots of this except I am not optimistic. There is risk to this strategy and perhaps they didn't conduct a robust risk assessment, but I think they probably did and decided that this strategy is their best bet. Democrats know how much Democracy is at stake--the polling bears that out.

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Liberal Cynic's avatar

Let's be clear what the strategy is that is being complained about: Democrats are airing ads showing certain R candidates are pro-insurrection, pro-school shooting, pro-forced birth, pro-white nationalist Trump cultists.

And that ^^ up there is being described as boosting the R candidate. Dems don't say one nice thing about the R candidate. It is all negative and it should scare the hell out of anyone that has not sold their soul to Trump yet.

It's a great strategy and it's getting a strong reaction because it is working.

People aren't actually freaked out that it will cause more MAGA to be voted in. They are freaking out because they still have this rosy picture in their mind about saving the Republican party by keeping squishes like Meijer in Congress.

Fuck that, get them all out. None of them except for Liz and Adam deserve to ever grace the halls of Congress again.

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Bonnie's avatar

Yes, I am with you, just afraid that there is a lot more appetite for the insurrectionists and authoritarian ( or too many people who still will vote for the republican to stick it to the libs) that it does have a risk. I am not a political strategist, but surely, there is a robust risk assessment/modeling process that goes into the plans

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Alex LP's avatar

💯

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Alex LP's avatar

I’ll chime in and say it’s nice to also be around like minded folks on the topic of November. I too am a little weary about the immediate results in my district, GA-14. It has been gerrymandered to hell and back (MTG represents TWELVE COUNTIES). Anyway, I am doing my best and encouraging everyone I know around me to actually vote with integrity and not fall for the crazy christo-fascist candidates this fall.

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