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Yet another abject failure by the DNC establishment and the DCCC. VA CD02 may go uncontested with the filing deadline of Thursday. How can the party's leaders be excused from this abject failure?
http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/dp-nws-2nd-district-20160325-story.html
Virginia Politics: And the 2nd District Democrats are ...?
Suppose they held a primary and nobody came?
For all the sound and fury in the battle for the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District, which now ranges from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach, there's been hardly a whisper from the Democratic side.
But the Democrats are still planning a primary, state party spokeswoman Emily Bolton says.
And candidates have just four more business days, until March 31, to declare for office, submit petitions to be included on the ballot and pay their fees, according to the state Department of Elections.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Republicans win elections.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)I bet she is being bribed to keep those seats uncontested.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)He has the power to force her out, yet he does and says nothing as the electoral losses continue to mount.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Who the hell in their right mind would seriously want to run for Congress these days? Sounds like a bunch of sane people in the district.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)candidates to bid for seats that are realistically attainable in moderate districts that have elected Democrats in the recent past.
There is no excuse whatsoever for the DNC failing to recruit candidates to run against vulnerable incumbents in a Presidential election cycle when Democrats typically have the best voter turnout and the best chances of winning.
former9thward
(32,005 posts)You don't know they haven't. Maybe there is no one willing to run in that district.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)a Congressional seat in a moderate district with the proper financial backing.
We're not talking about rural districts in deep red states where a Democratic candidate, even a conservative one, would have no chance whatsoever of winning. We're talking about seats that have been held by Democrats in the recent past.
The inability to see that this is a complete failure on the part of the DNC is either due to obtuseness of naivete.
former9thward
(32,005 posts)They have to do that largely on their own. If someone can't get proper financial backing its on them not he DNC.
Chakab
(1,727 posts)to viable candidates. There are donor networks that only people with establishment approval have access to.
Omaha Steve
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world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties"
dembotoz
(16,804 posts)in my state, unless your race is "targeted" you will not get party support.
seen it time and again...find someone to run and the state party turns him/her into the maytag repariman
who decides which race is targeted? sorry ...above my pay grade
part of a self fulfilling prophesy....reason red areas stay red cause they state party is not interested.
ask the state party why they are not interested? cause the area is red.....
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But, still, that's Luján, not Wasserman-Schultz.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Isn't your issue with Ben Ray Luján?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)The goal is maintain a tenuous balance. Our party may or may not take back either house, but even if we did it wouldn't be by a large enough majority to do anything. Same thing when the republicans are in charge. We will have the congress Wall Street wants. All the rest is Kabuki theater