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Amsel_ the link you posted, show pretty much the same as I said in my previous post. It also reveal that Americans are very disapointed in the job that U.S. Congress is doing. I was pretty surprised to see that 68% disaprove, and only 21% approve!!! Those numbers constitute a serious dissatisfaction of the status quo, and I am very interested to see how it will affect the mid term election.
Now to your other point;
Also I'm not so sure a socialist candidate would do well outside of democrat strongholds, or maybe the rust-belt. Candidates that lean too far to the left or right tend to scare off a lot of moderates to the other candidate.
The "socialist" Bernie Sanders are the most popular politician in USA, By far. Btw, he is a democratic sosialist, and have some of the ideas that modern EU countries are based up on - espesially the Nordic model.
The name "sosialist" doesnt seem all that scary anymore, cos he pretty much broke the tabu in his presidental run
A better strategy for them might be to run fairly noncontroversial candidates, and then use all the money and name recognition they have.
Now where did I hear that tune before? Ah now I remember; it was the Hillary Clinton campaign, with all the name recognition in the world, and all the money to, but lacking a political message that could inspire ppl enought so they would go out and vote for her. This is also the same tune that DCCC are trying to play for this mid term election - trying to squeese progressive Bernecrats out of the race, with different kind of tricks and shenanigans.
On the other hand, democrats would look like a complete joke of a party if they didn't do at least okay in this election.
Yeah, your right. And they could actually lose again, when/if they use that same old strategy that has proven catastofic to the party. The days where you can run on platitutes like "we rule with our values" - "I am with her" etc etc - are gone. They will be a laughing stock if they try to pull this one AGAIN, and lose.
For decades now, they have tryed to appeal to the middle, or the moderat conservatives, and taken their base for granted. Result; the base is gone, and a republican will rather vote for a real republican candidate, and not a Republican "light".
Just a repetition of my example above; 80% of democratic voters want public healt care. How come that so many Democrats elected, are reluctant to support them/it?
When there are practically zero correlation between the wish of the base, and the politics that are practised - you can no longer expect "the base" to go out and vote for you, and you cannot even call yourself a democracy imo.
just to explain my point of view, I will post this one
Hippocrits are the worst of animals. I love elifants.