2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why do "fans" of Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy Oppose Mary Landrieu, Begich & McCaskill? [View all]dsc
(52,155 posts)and the rest of the Democrats indulging a vote on it. Yes, Manchin has to support coal, she has to support oil, Begich has to support oil too, but that doesn't mean the rest of the caucus has to as well. Especially when Landrieu has pretty much no chance of winning as even the DSCC apparently figures since they have cut off her money. I think some of Dean's candidates were problematic. Webb being one of the worst. It wasn't his being pro military I had a problem with it was his anti woman and anti gay past that I had the problem with. In NC, I had a real problem with Schuler. Honestly I think we have nearly gotten to the point in the South that it doesn't matter who we run they will get about the same amount of the vote. That being the case, we may as well run economic populists as there is a history of those candidates doing well in the South.