Progressives Have a Solution for the Mid-Term Disaster

[DrScholl]

All the money and resources should have been directed toward Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Alaska, states where the margins ended up being the narrowest. That's where the mistake was made, because if those states had been the main focus, we would have maintained them. Lots of resources were put into Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky, when it would have been better to spend that money elsewhere.

The map to a majority isn't in red states, it's in purple to blue states. Democrats did not go nuclear on people like Gardner and Ernst early enough, they need to totally tank their favorables early on, but they failed to do so.

[DrScholl]

All the money and resources should have been directed toward Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Alaska, states where the margins ended up being the narrowest. That's where the mistake was made, because if those states had been the main focus, we would have maintained them. Lots of resources were put into Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky, when it would have been better to spend that money elsewhere.

The map to a majority isn't in red states, it's in purple to blue states. Democrats did not go nuclear on people like Gardner and Ernst early enough, they need to totally tank their favorables early on, but they failed to do so.

Progressives spent over somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million+ against Thom Tillis and attacked him hard early but it still wasn't enough.

What makes you think it would have been any different if the Dems had just concentrated on the states you mentioned? Esp. without hindsight AR, KY, and LA looked holdable.
 

Kentucky wasn't holdable, because we didn't hold it in the first place, Grimes was not an incumbent that McConnell defeated.

Considering the margins, specifically in Colorado, I can't help but think a more aggressive campaign early on would have made the difference. Getting the favorables down early in the key, and that is what Democrats failed to do.

[DrScholl]

Progs need to drop this whole "war on women" BS because that obviously hasn't worked.

It works, which is why some Republicans, like Jeff Gorell, have lied about being pro-choice.

[DrScholl]

Supporting the minimum wage doesn't make you a progressive. Rick Santorum supports a minimum wage increase.

Rick Santorum also supports unions. He's from a part of western Pennsylvania where Republicans have some economic positions that aren't exactly ones that most conservatives usually have.