Adam Griffin
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« on: April 30, 2017, 11:01:36 PM » |
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Cruz is an absolute creep - how is this even a debate? The only reason Democrats "lost" was because we hemorrhaged votes in areas disproportionately influential on the Electoral College while gaining a bunch of moderate votes in suburban areas that literally made no difference in the EV outcome. Those votes lost were much more receptive to a Sanders/Trump message while the votes gained were much more receptive to a Clinton one.
I'm not sure how receptive they would have been to a Cruz message, simply because - while the contrast would have been greater - Cruz has a punchable face and a smarmy demeanor backed by awful policies himself. I'm sure "muh socialism" would have scared the NIMBYs in Fairfax, Gwinnett, Orange and Harris relative to Clinton's performance, but not much beyond the margins Obama received there in 08/12, if that (and even then, it wouldn't matter).
Cruz's creepy evangelism and hard-line austerity/GOP orthodoxy would have kept Rust Belt workers and suburbanites alike from drifting too far from the mean one way or another, and with that, #BernieWouldHaveWon. Easily.
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