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What's the appeal of Hovde here? Wisconsin has tons of elected and firmer elected Rs, surely one of them has to be better than a guy who's lost twice and didn't even seem like a superstar candidate?
Wisconsin Republicans turn their lonely eyes to California banker who lost twice to go for a trifecta in 2028.
wispolitics.com/2026/hovde-s…
Even outside of the larger discourse over whether Dems need to moderate to win, but what's crazy is that even if you accept the larger premise, we have a ton of evidence that being pro-choice doesn't hurt Democrats in the Midwest and Plains specifcally, including in Kansas!
Last year, Ezra Klein encouraged Democrats to run anti-choice candidates to win in "Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri."
Both Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Adam Hamilton (Kansas) won by running on reproductive freedom. Oops!
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troy jackson's greatest crime to politics people is that he's actually a working class "normal" guy who doesn't realize that people want an aesthetically pleasing performance of working classness
I'm almost at the point where I think that the goal in 2029 should just be to throttle inflation as much as possible, because I worry that a scenario where voters endlessly punish the incumbent party forever is going end up standing in the way of every other progressive goal.
The good news: Democrats are now one presidential win from getting to govern.
The bad news: Their top 3 economic goals may be incompatible with each other.
To prepare a viable governing agenda, the party must grapple with the tensions between its aims
vox.com/politics/510291/demo…
My dream is to transform a section of New Hampshire into a Colonial Williamsburg-esque tourist attraction where its perpetually early-state primary season so that the New Hampshire primary diehards will have something to do while the rest of America runs its primaries normally.
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They should give the vice presidency to one of the no-hope Dems that won this year in a fluke bc it would be funny
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Florida Dems ran a rando white lady in this sets and lost by half a point while Jolly and Nixon carried it. “Another case Hispanics will revert everywhere except here bc this place is cringe” costing us a seat
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The failure of the NC map looks different from different perspectives. From a broader GOP party perspective, it's easy to say "we'll get em next time" on what is still a favorable map. For the individual members who lost, though, they may not get a next time.
I need to stop dunking on them bc I don't actually have many problems with their actual policy stances but it's crazy to me how whiney and thin-skinned these guy all are. Who cares what David Sirota thinks of you lol?
Hey @joelmwarner and @davidsirota, Center for Public Enterprise is also supporting BAAJA. Will you write about us, please? And look into our backers? And will you look into @IBEW and @LIUNA who also support the bill? Who is backing them? Surely they benefit from data centers!
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I'm not that interested in this discourse but it's kind of silly how the media will label any random Democrat as a progressive regardless of their views (Politico called MGP one) but when actual progressives embrace somebody from outside their camp they get mocked for it.
Politico: The New Darling of the Left Is … Chris Van Hollen?
Progressive lawmakers and activists are hoping to harness momentum from last week’s sweeping Democratic victories to install inspiring new congressional leaders
Many have looked at the Senate and found their guy: a 67-year-old father of three from an affluent Washington suburb who has held public office continuously since 1991
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has emerged as the alternative of choice for a swath of Democrats who believe Chuck Schumer, the longtime Senate Democratic leader, should step aside despite presiding over massive midterm gains
It’s the culmination of a remarkable resurgence for Van Hollen, who spent years inching up the Democratic leadership ladder in the House only to ditch his seniority there for the back benches of the Senate in 2017
politico.com/news/2026/11/11…
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In all seriousness, Woke 2.0 was a reactive, defensive, very intense affair premised on Dems having to totally reform American government with bare majorities. It was like (white) Woke 1.0 militarized. Woke 3.0 is premised on the idea that we can win large democratic majorities.
My theory for why blue states Republicans are like this is because they see YIMBY policies as an attempt by the urban and suburban Democrats to make the rest of the state more like themselves. In red states where Rs run everything it's harder to perceive things that way.
One of the real problems West Coast Republicans run into is that they actually tend to agree with the anti-development policies that have caused these states to stagnate under Democrats in the first place. So there's not really any reason a moderate voter fed up with Democratic governance would want to vote for them.
This was a big problem for Steve Hilton in California, who was basically a cut and dried NIMBY. Christine Drazan is comparatively not as bad, in that she at least talks about permitting reform, but she also has a record of opposing urban growth boundary expansions.
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Blue state rural voters already perceive a lot of state-level Democrats as not taking rural areas into consideration when they pass laws, so when it comes to YIMBY stuff they interpret it as "these urban/suburban Democrats don't understand that some people don't like development"
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