Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:14 AM

qdouble (891 posts)

The Lincoln Project Probably Did Help the Democrats

I know a lot of people have been bashing the Lincoln project because Trump still had a very high turnout. However, if you look at the races county by county as the final votes come in, Biden made solid gains in a lot of urban and suburban areas. So while rural areas remained hardcore MAGA, it's likely that a good number of moderate Republicans who don't live in super Republican counties abandoned Trump this cycle.

Hopefully Democrats can figure out how to convert rural voters next cycle, but all is not lost. I suspect that a solid ground game and rallies may be a stronger motivator in terms of voting rather than political ads in those areas.

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
The Lincoln Project Probably Did Help the Democrats (Original post)	qdouble	Nov 2020	OP
Nothing but admiration and thanks for the Lincoln Project.	C_U_L8R	Nov 2020	#1
+1	Under The Radar	Nov 2020	#4
They played bad guy to Joe's good guy. They helped	MaryMagdaline	Nov 2020	#2
I think there's no doubt they helped.	TwilightZone	Nov 2020	#3
Exactly	qdouble	Nov 2020	#7
Agree.	sheshe2	Nov 2020	#5
Sure it helped a little but	awesomerwb1	Nov 2020	#6
The way they helped the most was in being the ones who did the most Negative attacks on Trump	JI7	Nov 2020	#8
Exactly this!	Bayard	Nov 2020	#9
The Lincoln Project helpthe the country and the planet	PirateRo	Nov 2020	#10
Agree! There was a scathing article by esquire saying they didn't add 10 votes to dem totals	Thekaspervote	Nov 2020	#11

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:19 AM

C_U_L8R (42,128 posts)

1. Nothing but admiration and thanks for the Lincoln Project.

They are amazing.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:23 AM

Under The Radar (3,353 posts)

4. +1

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:22 AM

MaryMagdaline (6,355 posts)

2. They played bad guy to Joe's good guy. They helped

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:22 AM

TwilightZone (21,191 posts)

3. I think there's no doubt they helped.

Some of their ads were the most watched and shared of the election cycle. I have no doubt at all that they helped.

It's not their fault - or ours - that 70 million people are idiots. We have to work around them, as we did this cycle.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:26 AM

qdouble (891 posts)

7. Exactly

Just because Trump was able to motivate high turnouts in areas that are often openly racist and hateful doesn't mean the Lincoln Project didn't appeal to moderates. They may have also motivated some democrats who didn't vote last time to vote this time, so that's good for us still.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:25 AM

sheshe2 (76,043 posts)

5. Agree.

K&R

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:25 AM

awesomerwb1 (3,948 posts)

6. Sure it helped a little but

I'm glad they're on our side.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:27 AM

JI7 (86,282 posts)

8. The way they helped the most was in being the ones who did the most Negative attacks on Trump

and being able to get away with it because they are/were Republicans.

This allowed Biden to focus more on a positive campaign. And democrats get hurt more by being negative in any way than Republicans so this was important.

they went after Trump's shitty kids also . Remember how BIden tried to stay away from that even though they were going after Hunter .

The LP helped fill that role . So we were still able to go after Trump's kids without Biden being hurt if he did it himself.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:34 AM

Bayard (14,780 posts)

9. Exactly this!

Glad they were on our side this time. Smart and effective. They definitely provided food for thought.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:37 AM

PirateRo (926 posts)

10. The Lincoln Project helpthe the country and the planet

They reminded us of the decency we haven’t seen in four years is as important as ever.

The Democratic Party were merely beneficiaries.

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:37 AM

Thekaspervote (25,211 posts)

11. Agree! There was a scathing article by esquire saying they didn't add 10 votes to dem totals

Only read part of it. My take away was if that’s the case, then most adverts of that nature do nothing.

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