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EffieBlack

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Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:52 AM Nov 2018

Last night showed us midterms are won on the ground, district by district, not at the national lev [View all]

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We often hear people demand that Dems put up charismatic rock stars who will flog a nationalized message. But most of the Democratic rock stars who got big national media attention lost last night while many of the less exciting candidates who plodded along, often nearly under the radar, with a localized message did well.

I don't know how that will play out in 2020, given the different dynamics in a presidential year, but it was an interesting phenomenon to watch last night.

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