TYT: What Will The Dems Learn From Local Races In NJ & VA? (Hint: go progressive!!)

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 02:59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy50sNuO6Eo   Posted on YouTube: November 04, 2009 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 11166   Posted on DU: November 04, 2009 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 972

 
Don't run towards the middle, you fools.

[fascisthunter]

1. the Big Shot Dummies will Never Listen

[NorthCarolina]

2. I can almost guarantee that Dems will read the results of NJ & VA as just the opposite n/t

[ihavenobias]

3. That's what Cenk rightfully fears if you watch the clip.

Even more depressing is that Republicans NEVER do that. If they lose they go further and further right.

[20score]

19. AS per Arianna Huffington: Both sides learn to run to the republican base.

But only one side benefits.

[ooglymoogly]

4. Rahm will read this the way he has always read it. "see I was right

we need to go more right", which to him is the center because like Lie-berman, at heart, he is a Repig. Why would any progressive become the grass roots
or even come out to vote for a dem who has said he is for all the things Repigs are for, as Deeds has done and lost and the reasons are obvious. O's intentions became suspect the moment he appointed Rahm to head up his team. These things do not bode well for Dems in the future. Many, like me, Those of us who became O's Grass roots after the primaries and banked and beat the streets for him because the alternative was just not acceptable are becoming disillusioned with the way things are turning out.

[november3rd]

5. It's money in politics

When you're allowed to run a campaign because billionaires are willing to fund it (as long as you work for them)then you get DINOs battling fascists for corporate support and commercial media time.

[phantom power]

6. Tangentially -- does all the money voters are throwing at Grayson mean nothing...

to these people?

"It's your base, stupid"

[rocktivity]

7. DING DING DING! Phantom Power, you're our grand prize winner!

It's your base, stupid.

If there is only one thing to be learned from Obama's victory, is that you can't take your middle-of-the-road voters for granted. It's the voters who liked Obama (in combination, of course with those loved him) who put him over, and they're the same voters who eat away at his approval ratings because when they don't see Dems fighting for change hard enough. They're the ones who constantly need to be assured they make the right decision, and they constantly need to see the Dems standing up for themselves.


rocktivity

[DirtyJersey]

8. Corzine ran as a progessive

So I'm not sure I understand this argument. Deeds ran as a moderate, but also in a more conservative state. I don't think we can draw any broader conclusions from this really.

[Mithreal]

10. Lots of Goldman execs are progressive, right

[DirtyJersey]

20. Regardless of his career background,

Corzine did indeed run as a progressive - he did not run to the center.

[Mithreal]

21. Who would trust one of these bankers now?

[DirtyJersey]

22. Nobody

That's probably a big part of why he lost. However, the problem wasn't that he ran to the center, because he didn't.

[Mithreal]

24. Ok

[izquierdista]

14. Progressive?

Maybe a Goldman Sachsprogressive.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

9. Which he rightly adds makes it all the more important to turn out for TYT protests....

So Democrats don't get the wrong message and they can see on their TVs there is a pressence for the Public Option.

[avaistheone1]

11. Great report, Cenk.

[matthewf]

12. k&r

[ej510]

13. Obama continues to move further to the right.

When will he learn?

[democracy1st]

15. K & R

[WhoIsNumberNone]

16. Deeds wasn't the best we could do in Virginia-

We had two that were better than him in the primary- But all the Republicans came out and voted for Deeds.

Congratulations Rush- looks like Operation Chaos worked this time around.
Time for Virginia to adopt party registration for voters.

[sulphurdunn]

17. On the down side, Deeds is a bum.

He took a dive. I worked the polls for him. I know. In my county the overwhelming majority of voters were mean old conservative coots who think dirty hippies and Negroes want to take all the stuff they can't take with them when they die, which will be sooner than later. The young and minority voters stayed home. Deeds did this by running as a Blue Dog. Hell, even DU has been running paid ads against him on this web site for weeks. His campaign was almost nonexistent. This is odd considering that the present Democratic governor of Virginia is also chairman of the DNC.

On the up side: Maybe this was a not so subtle message to Blue Dogs everywhere.

Back to the down side: Bob McDonnell is the most reactionary rightwing racist, religious fanatic of a loony misogynist to win the governorship in at least two generations.

[pleah]

18. K&R

[democracy1st]

23. K & R