re: #104 ObserverArt
Your thinking is great, but may not be taking in enough reality to make it applicable. We all want pure Democrats.
Simply…West Virginia doesn’t. Run a pure Democrat and good chance you lose. Now you have a fence sitting Republican at best.
This is where political idealism does not work on the actual people that will be voting.
Right next door you have Kentucky. Look at how they vote. It’s a damn miracle you have Joe Manchin in a state with similar thinking. Will your strategy work in Kentucky? You might have the candidate…can you get them voted in?
Same thinking got Trump Ohio. Ohio Appalachia showed up and took it to the big cities like hasn’t happened in years.
Exactly, which is why the Democrats need to return to a 50-state strategy that takes into account that party members/supporters aren’t a monolithic entity nationwide.
What plays in NYC or SF doesn’t necessarily play in Peoria (or Huntington or Vidalia or Redding or wherever).