Claire's old article,
How I Helped Todd Akin Win — So I Could Beat Him Later, is pretty typical of big-brained pol strategy. Todd Akin was the guy who said that women don't need abortions because their bodies have a way of "shutting down" an unwanted pregnancy from rape, if you forgot.
In 2015-16 she was one of the most loyal and extreme of Clinton's attack dogs to maul the left.
In 2018 when it looked like her race was going to be close, she followed up with another big-brain strategy: cling to Trump's leg and hump it,
hard. Shockingly, this seems to have given
a couple more points in favor of her opponent. Who coulda guessed that people who like Trump would vote for republicans, while democrats don't like voting for Trump supporters?
After being one of the few democrats to humiliating lose in a democrat counter-wave year, Claire was rewarded with a contract with MSNBC. The details of the contract are not public - but my spider sense suspects it's probably at least a few factors more than she ever made working in congress.
The strategy used in the 2016 Clinton campaign to appeal to "suburban" republicans is being repeated here in 2020. "Trump bad, but republicans good!" is their rallying call once more. They'll probably be able to keep that one county in California flipped, but there's probably still an extreme lack of asshole republican actors in the swing states. Polling data says Biden is doing effectively exactly the same as Clinton was in August. The odds say it's another coinflip, and I'd assume it's hedged a bit in Trump's favor.
Their motivation for repeating a disastrous, failed strategy is speculated the same as always: either the most powerful people on the planet are so extremely stupid beyond the point of the rationally possible (their brains seem to work well enough to maneuver spoonfuls of food into their mouths, after all), or they'd prefer to lose like this than win by offering slightly more humane policy.
... I say all this to bring up something that's been bothering me these last couple days: What kind of
absolute freak is Obama, who actually tried to win elections and craft an image as a benevolent person? When that's... complete anathema to what democrats are supposed to do, it seems?
Mischief Maker wrote:I can't stand their worship of Tulsi Gabbard while bashing people far to her left.
I guess you didn't frequent the Warren stans' hangouts. The average posts there were stuff along the lines about how Sanders was a lazy dummy who didn't do his homework. (And that's on the nicer side.) Instead of people who want to expand Medicare, it was more the crowd that fetishizes having lots of Rube Goldberg plans that no one understands, no one can explain in a speech, don't do much, and are intended to never be passed. If they weren't interested in her solely due to her being a professor or a woman.
While Pete forums would have made your brain melt out of your ears. It's normal to dislike people with different value alignments in the middle of a war.