2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[No1]

I don’t know that I’d label it black professional class, depends on what you mean by that, was a lot of walks of life there (no college, college, grad school - smallest set of people) - it was attached to a comedy show.

and I did the isidewith quiz and the one by the wapo

Ah. Well that’s more interesting. In my experience, black people our age are progressive but as black people we are used to bullshyt so some of it is a hard sell. Most Warren and Bernie voters I know are voting based on upside and the floor of either of them versus a moderate who might actually push right wing shyt.

 

[King Kreole]

*Warren speaks about her experience as a woman*

"Quit the damn ID politics! This is why she sucks!"

"King Bernard "

real talk tho, this was great to see, very touching

 

[duncanthetall]

Participation is headed in the right direction now, but man at this point we sound a little delusional not giving him some credit for the economy. We've been predicting things would crash and burn since 2017, but it's remained steadfast and will continue to hold up with the Fed being anti-Bernie/Warren and Trump about to install one of his stooges on the Fed board. They're going to prop up this economy through the election. Dems need to be prepared to hone their messaging around Trump's other weaknesses - corruption, poor character, and healthcare b/c right now Trump has like a 65% approval rating of his handling of the economy.

Touting “the economy is good” shouldn’t be enough for him. The economy somehow apparently being “good” doesn’t change the lack of health care and wealth inequality in this country. The economy being “good” does not impact the average person

 

[FAH1223]

Participation is headed in the right direction now, but man at this point we sound a little delusional not giving him some credit for the economy. We've been predicting things would crash and burn since 2017, but it's remained steadfast and will continue to hold up with the Fed being anti-Bernie/Warren and Trump about to install one of his stooges on the Fed board. They're going to prop up this economy through the election. Dems need to be prepared to hone their messaging around Trump's other weaknesses - corruption, poor character, and healthcare b/c right now Trump has like a 65% approval rating of his handling of the economy.

I agree with you. At the same time, the economy was growing more under Obama's 2nd term than now, more jobs were created then than now. We've had economic growth for 11 years now.

Also, vast majority of Americans being paycheck to paycheck is not a good thing and the Fed backs this data up.

I think healthcare and corruption are the winning messages. Bernie's been talking more about what happened in 2017 when the GOP was one vote away from repealing the ACA in the Senate, knocking 32M off insurance, cutting Medicaid, putting budgets to cut Medicare, the administration supporting a lawsuit to repeal the entire ACA RIGHT NOW in court.

Which IMO shows him sort of 'moderating' his messaging as the primary goes on.

 

[Loose]

I have to admit this to you guys

Every candidate tonight has looked fantastic

Patrick is impressing me

Amy actually made me wish she was the only one in the middle lane

fukk is goin on here

She won't win but Amy's awesome

 

[ill]

The economy being “good” does not impact the average person

Lol wut


The employment rate and peoples retirement accounts would beg to differ

 

[duncanthetall]

She won't win but Amy's awesome

Amy should’ve ran in 2016. She would have fukked Trump up. She has a no nonsense attitude about her that’s somewhat charming at times in a Midwestern sort of way.

 

[FAH1223]

Lol wut


The employment rate and peoples retirement accounts would beg to differ

People are working but living paycheck to paycheck.

Seniors working longer.

Bernie would probably hammer Trump on these points and bring the receipts of Trump's own budgets and recent rhetoric in Davos of cutting Medicare and Social Security on a loop.

 

[acri1]

I agree with you. At the same time, the economy was growing more under Obama's 2nd term than now, more jobs were created then than now. We've had economic growth for 11 years now.

Also, vast majority of Americans being paycheck to paycheck is not a good thing and the Fed backs this data up.

I think healthcare and corruption are the winning messages. Bernie's been talking more about what happened in 2017 when the GOP was one vote away from repealing the ACA in the Senate, knocking 32M off insurance, cutting Medicaid, putting budgets to cut Medicare, the administration supporting a lawsuit to repeal the entire ACA RIGHT NOW in court.

Which IMO shows him sort of 'moderating' his messaging as the primary goes on.

I agree that healthcare/corruption are important. But I really think the Dems should be talking more about Trump's general incompetence, and how much he's decreased out standing in the world.

People are used to it by now but that doesn't mean he gets a pass. I really don't think Dems talk nearly enough about how much Trump is ruining the country's reputation.


Also I think the Dems do a disservice by just not talking about climate change nearly enough. It's literally a Red Alert type of issue but they rarely talk about how urgent it really is to address.

 

[Pressure]

Lol wut


The employment rate and peoples retirement accounts would beg to differ

The point they're trying to make is this doesn't apply for the majority of Americans. However, where they seem to he missing the point is because of that the majority of Americans don't expect to be financially solvent enough to retire and it's been that way for generations.

Merely appealing to how it ought to be assumes that people haven't only accepted the current reality and are also okay enough with it.

 

[Pressure]

I agree with you. At the same time, the economy was growing more under Obama's 2nd term than now, more jobs were created then than now. We've had economic growth for 11 years now.

The difference is Republicans stay on code and they're giving Trump the credit for the economy based on easily digestible and readily available information.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

People are working but living paycheck to paycheck.

Seniors working longer.

this has been true for awhile tho...americans always been a savings poor country, and part of working longer is longer lives. these are general points that always come up when discussing "the average american" but not statement makers IMO

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

holy shyt. Bernie just adopted Warren's plan.

ARE YOU fukkING KIDDING ME?????????











WOW

Just.

fukking.

SHAMLESS.

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[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is profound and mirrors everything ive been saying... Bernie thinks we're stupid







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