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In reply to the discussion: I do not want Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)Your previous post was claiming that the left are morons who don't know how to win elections.....by going far back in history.
I pointed out that the recent track record of DLC-style Democrats is poor - Gore's campaign was shitty enough to be close. Kerry's campaign was bad, 2010 and 2014 were bad. Heck, Bill Clinton won 1992 due to Perot siphoning off libertarians from GW Bush. Who didn't do this strategy recently? Obama.
Yet Third-way style is the strategy you insist we must follow. One that has shown itself to fail repeatedly.
Third-way doesn't work. It assumes there's a vast, unrepresented middle that's desperate for half-way between Republican and Democrat. There isn't. Polling shows there is a pool of Democratic-leaning voters and Republican-leaning voters that do or do not turn out based on the candidate. Third-way doesn't turn out the Democratic-leaning voters and we lose.