So we don't feed Monk, here's a clean article with some commentary from me and a few quotes:
Some Democrats worry, for instance, that the party still isn’t doing enough to engage low-propensity Black and Latino voters, particularly young men.
I think Obama is keying on that. It's brutal out there for young people. They feel abandoned by American politics in general, and may not remember the shitshow that was Trump, mainly because...
Democrats also wonder if they failed to define Trump early in the cycle, letting him slowly rehabilitate his favorability numbers. Still others fear they didn’t remind voters early on of the horrors of Trump’s first term, leaving them with rosy memories of his presidency—including blue-collar voters’ fond impressions of the Trump economy. Those latter two problems may not be repairable in time.
Ain't that the truth. Americans are DUMB and have the collective memory of a goldfish. Assuming they'll remember last week is a bad assumption. Why aren't I seeing more ads online and on TV reminding us of kids in cages, firing key workers before a pandemic, sharpies and hurricanes, and all the other bullshit this bullshit artist has done. Start it now.
There is still time to fix this problem, many of these Democrats say, and the PAC’s resource sharing has improved in recent days. But time is running out.
Would like to see more details of how it's improving...
The PAC, they say, favors ads on broadcast television aimed at broad audiences—when reaching young and nonwhite voters requires a more targeted digital approach because their media sources have grown so fractured.
Why not both? This might be why Walz is on a World of Warcraft stream and Harris went on 'Call her Daddy', though. We'll have to reach out to the youth where the youth is.
A Democrat familiar with the Super PAC’s thinking pointed out that it is currently running a heavily backed ad featuring a Black, blue-collar narrator talking about Trump’s tax cuts for the rich.
That's a good idea. Are they pairing it with Trump's ties to Project 2025 and his abhorent treatment of kids at the border? Remind voters that right before the pandemic that upended the world, Trump fired the entire pandemic team? And then called it a Dem Hoax when it happened?
Meanwhile, some Democrats say that the PAC didn’t put enough resources into early ads defining Trump
Yep. I am one, if you can't tell. ;)
It’s a basic truism of politics that winning campaigns were run by geniuses and losing ones were run by numbskulls. So if Harris wins, Future Forward will appear to have gotten all this right, perhaps brilliantly so. But if she loses, the recriminations—not just directed at Future Forward, but all throughout the party—will be severe.
Alas, this is true. Hindsight is 20-20. We'll see on the morning of the sixth...
Fair point. I did misread 'one on one' to mean Democrat vs Republican with 'stepping back' to mean viewing Third Parties.
I totally agree with your reasoning, as it was my reasoning. The guy is old, not a debate. He's a gaffe machine, too. Some people pushed the meme he was losing a step, but while I saw him as old, I didn't see him as washed up or senile. The guy just doesn't know how to NOT put his foot in his mouth (I share a lot in common with him on that regard!!!), and there were an awful lot of bad-faith actors saying that he wasn't just old, but senile as well. They're still around, saying he's too old and senile to run the show now, and he should resign.
I think how Harris is being treated by various people on and offline should be a key indicator that Biden's resignation wasn't the end of the bullshit factories. They each have their own desires for their choice of President, and they can't even agree with each other who that choice is. Some will scream for Sanders. Others will scream for Stein. Some particularly pigeon-holed ones will argue for Fruit, despite her being mathematically eliminated from 270 before the first vote is cast. And lets get real. There are all to many of them who will tell you "IMMA FOR JILL" or some other tiny Third Party candidate while actually wanting Trump. Some think that a Trump presidency will lead them to the Progressive Promised Land. Others...are here to ensure we're so busy infighting that we can't put a unified resistance up, so they can get the Handmaiden's Tale they desparately want.
If Biden gave up because America is dumb, I don't blame him. In 2016, I tried hard to get out and get to Canada or New Zealand. But now Canada and New Zealand are overrun or about to be overrun by dumb people too. :|