2018 Congressional Recruitment/Fundraising/Ratings Megathread

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IA-3: Pete D'Alessandro will announce a bid on Tuesday. He was the top Iowa staffer for Bernie Sanders in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/25/pete-dalessandro-congress-iowa-bernie-sanders-staffer

Endorsed to the ends of the earth.

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We didn't catch this, but Sanders' IA state director and experienced IA liberal pol Pete D'Alessandro has been exploring a bid for the IA-3 for a month.

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We didn't catch this, but Sanders' IA state director and experienced IA liberal pol Pete D'Alessandro has been exploring a bid for the IA-3 for a month.

I have doubts about Berniecrats winning districts which swung right of late... We saw an example in MT-AL recently..

We saw an example of what happens when you nominate a stoner, tax avoiding, nudist associating, politically inexperienced folk singer.

Yeah. But supported by Bernie nevertheless...

Do some candidate research before making pronouncements, eh?

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Kenneth Queen is running for NC-10, Patrick McHenry's seat. White, straight, married with three (I think, judging from photos) kids, and a military background. His website has a issues page, but it's not very flushed out and there is nothing really specific. A "strong supporter" of the Second Amendment, Medicare-for-all, pro-choice but for free birth control and "fact based sex education" among other things to lessen the need for abortion, education as a right (not sure if this refers to free-college, or just fighting further restrictions), for a secure border (nothing about amnesty), and 100% renewable energy by 2035.

http://www.queenforcongress.com/issues/

He apparently spoke at a March for Truth rally here in Asheville, NC today (June 3rd). I did not attend, but it is reported on their website.

https://indivisibleavl.org/06-01-2017/march-for-truth-against-russianties-on-saturday-june-3/

This guy sounds like my political spirit animal

His immigration policy leaves a lot to be desired, but at the same time everything else seems great. Endorsed.

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Also I think nationalizing the race is somewhat okay when you're running against the 2nd or 3rd most powerful man in the nation.

I... have no idea what you're talking about! Bryce constantly rags on Ryan as a Trump stooge. He's "nationalizing" he race himself! Like do you want a medal because you hate people who live in coastal states? Congratulations.

I would've thought people would stop trying to have a legit argument with Bagel, the guy who thinks running a racist white Democrat in the South is a winning strategy.

Pretty sure if Bagel23 could choose, he'd run a racist white Democrat in every district.

Wrong, just in districts and places where it would be beneficial, which is the vast minority of places. If I had to throw around a number, I would say only 5-10% of places would I want this.

Fully support.

The death knell for any legitimacy Bagel could hope to have in this argument.

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Sort of surprisingly, Corey Lewandowski is doing a better job than the media of actually analyzing the 2018 midterms.

From Salon on Margaret Good's win:

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Yeah, unheard of for Democrats to win in Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
What a blathering idiot.

The mayor of Manchester had been a Republican since 2006, and the WI-10 is a deeply republican district.

Speaking of blathering idiots...

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Sort of surprisingly, Corey Lewandowski is doing a better job than the media of actually analyzing the 2018 midterms.

From Salon on Margaret Good's win:

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Yeah, unheard of for Democrats to win in Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
What a blathering idiot.

The mayor of Manchester had been a Republican since 2006, and the WI-10 is a deeply republican district.

Speaking of blathering idiots...

Thanks for the tip, Hhack.

yw

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Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan is looking into running for NY-21st https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/35651/20180216/former-msnbc-host-dylan-ratigan-mulls-ny-21-run

That doesn't seem like the right candidate.

Since when do the Democrats care? They ran McGinty for PA-Sen, Emily Cain for ME-02, and Dan Malloy for CT-Gov and are about to run J.B. f**king Pritzker for IL-Gov.

All of those people have a rolodex of campaign donors or are personally rich, and none of them have a single radical idea in their heads.  That's the DCCC's definition of a perfect candidate.

And you know? The funny thing is that it wouldn't even take an ideological revolution to get the rich dunderheads out of congressional races.

TBH, the DCCC is already way out of line with where a sane party organ should be precisely *in its * taking these sides in primaries. By taking sides in a primary you're giving candidates a boost that they're not earning by actually organizing their way into a win. By giving a strong nudge in these primaries to a bunch of clueless 20 somethings who's greatest experience of the country outside of their sheltered suburban/Ivy+ upbringings is watching Justified or The Wire, you're strongly biasing fundraising and a candidates' appeal to a certain form of yuppie liberalism that probably doesn't carry over to the district.

A good party organization would do something like assess target districts based on demographics, polling, incumbency, etc, and then do something like what SwingLeft is doing already: raise money from the netroots and big donors based on the "generic D" label, and pool it for whoever wins the primary by their own danged self. I'm not sure it would lead to more left candidates (in fact, I'm fairly certain it would lead to a resurgence of not-terribly-woke rural Dems who I would almost certainly dislike a fair amount) but I am sure that it would cut down on the number of wealthy, bland losers.

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Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan is looking into running for NY-21st https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/35651/20180216/former-msnbc-host-dylan-ratigan-mulls-ny-21-run

That doesn't seem like the right candidate.

Since when do the Democrats care? They ran McGinty for PA-Sen, Emily Cain for ME-02, and Dan Malloy for CT-Gov and are about to run J.B. f**king Pritzker for IL-Gov.

All of those people have a rolodex of campaign donors or are personally rich, and none of them have a single radical idea in their heads.  That's the DCCC's definition of a perfect candidate.

Cain was, surely, superliberal for her district...

Cain was too "District 1." Policy had very little to do with it.