Democrats will continue to win because they’ll rally around, protect, and vote in a monolithic bloc for a vegetable like Fetterman.
We conservatives are too busy looking for the perfect candidate in all categories to be bothered to vote Senate control away from the democrats. I gots my principles, dontchaknow?
Well, 80% agreement with a candidate is better than 0% with the opposition candidate winning.
I know. If Pennsylvania had chosen McCormick, we would’ve won that seat, but we always look for perfection, which is very weird considering Dr. Oz is far from perfect.
That's not why we lose elections.
We lose elections because we need independents and swing voters to get on board and when we run lousy candidates, they stay away.
Swing voters and independents broke massively for the Democrats this year, particularly in those statewide races where Trump hand-picked the candidate.
Some exceptions are in Florida, where they came out for DeSantis and the case can be made that they came out for the GOP in New York, just not in the numbers that Zeldin needed to win.
In 2021, they came out for Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.
Candidate quality matters. We need candidates who can appeal to the base and the swing voters.