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Wanderlust988

(509 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:18 AM Nov 2020

It's now clear how we win elections...a moderate face with left policies

And that's how Biden has been able to pull thing off. I don't foresee in the future that our party will nominate anyone that calls themselves a Democratic socialist. They may be able to drum up big support in NYC, LA, Seattle, etc, but that's not going to win 270 EV's.

It's pretty obvious that we have to have a candidate that appeals to the Rust Belt states and that also includes drumming up African American voters in their urban cores. Also we need to do better with Latinos and concentrate more on the Latinos in the southwest. Fuck Florida. That's our path from here on out. But any candidate from here on out, HAS to win surburbia too and revolutionary/socialist language won't cut it. Biden wouldn't have won MI and PA without the suburbs breaking for him.

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It's now clear how we win elections...a moderate face with left policies (Original Post) Wanderlust988 Nov 2020 OP
I'm ok with moving rightward on property taxes Polybius Nov 2020 #1
Property taxes are a state and local issue, not federal (n/t) Spider Jerusalem Nov 2020 #9
Yeah but put it in the platform Polybius Nov 2020 #15
I voted yes reggaehead Nov 2020 #16
I think you are right. madaboutharry Nov 2020 #2
Good point about Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Wanderlust988 Nov 2020 #10
I was cringing when Warren and Castro came out for decriminalizing illegal border crossings Wanderlust988 Nov 2020 #13
Yup. Biden carried my County, but my Dem House Representative lost. nt SunSeeker Nov 2020 #3
Harcore progressiveness isn't gonna work here vercetti2021 Nov 2020 #4
We need a better BGBD Nov 2020 #5
Spot on. If we win the presidency and the Senate we can... brush Nov 2020 #6
Yeah, let's not doing anything about reforming the police either TheRealNorth Nov 2020 #7
I think a majority are fine with reforming police tactics, not defunding them Wanderlust988 Nov 2020 #11
Agreed. I'm sure it had something to do the the 17 or so House seats we lost. brush Nov 2020 #14
I can agree with that TheRealNorth Nov 2020 #17
Ahhh...why not wait and see what happens. Don't rain on the parade before it even gets started. brush Nov 2020 #12
"Defund the police" might be a losing slogan Withywindle Nov 2020 #18
I knew it Sugarcoated Nov 2020 #8
I kind of disagree. I think part of the reason why Obama won as big as he did Withywindle Nov 2020 #19

Polybius

(15,239 posts)
1. I'm ok with moving rightward on property taxes
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:23 AM
Nov 2020

Pledge a ban on property taxes for those making under $200,000 a year. That will get us tons of conservative votes.

Polybius

(15,239 posts)
15. Yeah but put it in the platform
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:44 AM
Nov 2020

Make it a Democratic thing to oppose them. It will have us locally. No-Brainer.

reggaehead

(269 posts)
16. I voted yes
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:48 AM
Nov 2020

On Prop 15. And would for the next million years. Here in California we have Koch Industries interests sitting on properties they pay virtually no taxes on. And they refuse to log unless they can clearcut. That has to stop.

madaboutharry

(40,153 posts)
2. I think you are right.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:25 AM
Nov 2020

If Sanders or Warren had been the nominee it would have been a wipeout. They have some good ideas, but they won’t convince the voters we need to win.

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden all have two things in common; they all have the face of a moderate and they won.

Wanderlust988

(509 posts)
10. Good point about Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:36 AM
Nov 2020

I think people are fine with Democratic Party policies, but you need that candidate that makes the policies feel good to the soul. You can't go around telling people you're going to change everything about America...at least not out loud.

Wanderlust988

(509 posts)
13. I was cringing when Warren and Castro came out for decriminalizing illegal border crossings
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:42 AM
Nov 2020

Warren would've gotten us wiped out. And apparently, even Latinos don't favor such things.

Also, Abolish ICE was another terrible message.

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
4. Harcore progressiveness isn't gonna work here
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:29 AM
Nov 2020

Honestly now the field is too tainted because of labeling. It can work in west or new England states. But not rural America.

I hate to say it. But in order to win rural states, you have to run moderate or even conservative Democrats.

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
5. We need a better
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:29 AM
Nov 2020

message for rural voters.

Biden is going to become President because black voters in cities, suburban moderates, and by improving margins in rural counties across the country.

Those are the people we should focus our message to. Honestly, there isn't a lot of difference in the things that urban blacks and rural whites would benefit from, so we need to find a way to get that message across.

brush

(53,475 posts)
6. Spot on. If we win the presidency and the Senate we can...
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:30 AM
Nov 2020

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install progressive policies. Of course we also have to keep the House. I've said the same on this board many times. Anyone openly embracing socialism and calling themselves democratic socialists have a depth of political knowledge of this country about as deep as a sidewalk puddle.

A political "mullet" is what's needed—moderate in the front and progressive in the back.

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
7. Yeah, let's not doing anything about reforming the police either
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:31 AM
Nov 2020

we wouldn't want to anger the "Protect the Badge" folks.

Wanderlust988

(509 posts)
11. I think a majority are fine with reforming police tactics, not defunding them
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:38 AM
Nov 2020

Which was the dumbest messaging I've ever heard. No telling how many votes were lost just cause of that one phrase.

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
17. I can agree with that
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:48 AM
Nov 2020

Of the fence sitters that either voted for Trump or stayed home, it was the rioting and defend the police talk that scared them.

They didn't give a shit about raising taxes for those making over 400k.

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
18. "Defund the police" might be a losing slogan
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:49 AM
Nov 2020

But we absolutely HAVE to get all the white supremacists out of the police force. I don't care how loud the FOP screams, there are LOTS of cops who just have to go.

"A few bad apples" people say, thinking it means there are only a few bad cops. They don't understand what that full saying means. "A few bad apples spoils the barrel." That means, that rot spreads. If you have just a few bad apples in a barrel and you don't do anything about it, before you know it, the whole barrel is infected and has to be thrown out because it's all rotten, and it happens before you notice it.

Sugarcoated

(7,707 posts)
8. I knew it
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:33 AM
Nov 2020

I said it over and over about Joe. Apparently, crooked Donnie thought so, too because he went to great illegal lengths to take him down.

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
19. I kind of disagree. I think part of the reason why Obama won as big as he did
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:58 AM
Nov 2020

Was because he put a left face on moderate policies. He campaigned on a platform of dramatic change (needed after the Bush years) and he brought out young voters in a way not seen for years. I know many people who were disappointed when he turned to be, like, to the right of Nixon on some issues like the environment, but they still voted for him a second time because the alternative was always worse.

Regionalism factors in too, Obama went big in the Rust Belt because he was from Chicago. (Hawaii of course originally, but his home base was Chicago)

I agree about fuck Florida though. If we can take most of the Southwest, and the states in the South that are purple (GA and NC) and hold the traditional West Coast, Northeast, and Great Lakes states, we don't need it.

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