Democratic (Party) Direction

I mean, I assume I wouldn’t be allowed to wear shorts, is what I’m saying

My boss wears shorts and has said I could do the same. But I need some semblance of dignity.

Hmmm, so Dems at all levels need to do more Facebook, Instagram, google, etc. ads...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/tech-midterms-democrats.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

Dozens of progressive groups are organizing for Democrats in this year’s midterms. But Tech for Campaigns has focused on a particularly challenging assignment: dragging Democratic campaigns into the digital age, before it is too late....In a year and a half of existence, Tech for Campaigns has become a kind of Democratic Geek Squad — a national volunteer network consisting of more than 4,500 tech workers with day jobs at companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix and Airbnb. These volunteers, who include engineers, marketers and data scientists, are matched with Democratic campaigns across the country to provide training on digital skills, such as how to promote themselves on social media, build their email lists and use data analytics to identify potential donors...One of the group’s biggest tasks, Ms. Alter said, is persuading candidates to campaign heavily on social media, rather than relying solely on TV ads and printed mailers. Many Democrats running in 2018 are spending a much smaller percentage of their ad budgets on digital ads than their rivals, sometimes as little as 10 percent versus more than 40 percent for Republicans, according to two political consultants with ties to multiple campaigns.

"Tech for Campaigns has become a kind of Democratic Geek Squad —"

they'll take your hard drive, copy all the porn off it, and charge you $300 to reformat it?

e pluribus unum

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/identity-politics-right-left-trump-racism

Does anyone know how Abdul El-Sayed's chances are like for the Michigan gubernatorial race? He seems good. I'm watching his big speech in February about poverty.

https://abdulformichigan.com/issues

ICYMI, another "key adviser" to Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges this week, and Nixon is calling Prince Andy either clueless or corrupt.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2018/07/13/top-cuomo-official-and-donors-convicted-in-buffalo-billion-trial-the-governors-feminism-michael-cohens-new-digs-285903

¿Por qué no los dos?

Hmmm, so Dems at all levels need to do more Facebook, Instagram, google, etc. ads...

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Hmmm.

Heh

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-feinstein-de-leon-endorsement-20180714-story.html

(Although didn’t this already happen at a convention earlier in the year?)

Well hey.

I’m sure this is a fluke, Morbius should be awake in a few hours to remind us what The Dems really stand for.

president winfrey will appoint special agent strzok to be america's ambassador to the russian federation

re: Feinstein/de Leon, pulled from elsewhere:

Note that this ONLY happened because of the massive influx of progressives and overt socialists organizing and running for elected delegate positions, which we swept.

Morbius should be awake in a few hours to remind us what The Dems really stand for.

just jumpin' on the socialist bandwagon (like HRC selectively tried to do w/ Bernie to sadly unconvincing results).

by default they stand for as little as possible (happy?)

Thank you, Jane Mayer.

Nan Aron, the president of Alliance for Justice, a progressive group, who was also involved in the Thomas confirmation fight, agrees. “The conventional wisdom is that a vote against the nominee will hurt Democrats, but the reality that we’ve seen in the past is that it’s sometimes the right vote for Democrats politically. Votes for Thomas deflated the Democratic vote” afterward in some Senate races. As for this year, she says, “Look—Democrats in red states need the progressive base. You don’t need them staying home.”

On Saturday, two progressive groups—Demand Justice, a new organization focussed on judicial issues, and the Center for American Progress—planned to release a poll, conducted in the battleground states of Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, and West Virginia, that seeks to convey a similar message to vulnerable Democratic senators.

According to the poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates, Democratic senators may actually be better off politically, even in states that went overwhelmingly to Trump in 2016, if they cast votes against Kavanaugh. The polling data, which was gathered between June 30th and July 5th from about twelve hundred voters in those four states, are, of course, self-serving. But it makes the case that, if Democratic senators in conservative states frame their opposition to Kavanaugh clearly as a matter of conscience, based on one of three possible arguments, a majority of voters will likely accept and support the decision.

I'd like to see that poll

Elsewhere on ILX I saw a quote from Manchin where he was emphatically distancing himself from Schumer on the Kavanaugh vote, but he left the door wide open for him to vote either way, framing it as his decision alone, based on his personal judgment. This aligns well with the advice given above, but only if his eventual vote is against.

got some threadbait

This anecdote from my Ohio reporting last week captures something I see all the time. Purity tests: Big on Twitter, less so IRL. https://t.co/4phI0m2Ue3 pic.twitter.com/Gour17aTTe

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 17, 2018

70 y/os so weak on irl purity tests also their canes slow them down a lil

another cool 70 yo in that article saying she wont vote for the dem because he will keep obamacare and abolish ice

My fave trump anti obamacare feature is where they have repo teams to recover canes and batterychairs from the 70 y/os. that’ll larn em.

Cuomo is shook as hell

NEWS: Christopher Kim, the Cuomo donor who gave 69 times, reported the same Long Island City address (down to the apt. #) as Cuomo aide Julia Yang.

She identifies herself on LinkedIn as Cuomo’s “creative director.”

I’ve reached out to the campaign for comment… https://t.co/YUITqWwADI

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 17, 2018

nice

lmao what a move

also 69/77, nice

hahahah hell yeah

very "creative" Ms Yang

love to give, and receive, 69 times

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vote-joe-crowley-for-working-families-1531868231

So, Crowley never even called AOC personally to congratulate her and concede defeat when it became clear he'd lost. That was sniveling of him.

He conceded and endorsed her.

God, fucking Lieberman.

I'd blissfully forgotten he exists

if you'd asked me yesterday i'd've genuinely thought he was dead.

hard to forget him when his fingerprints are all over the party

“I don’t know any Democrat who cares what Joe Lieberman thinks, to be honest with you. I really don’t,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) saidhttps://t.co/FZMxoRVf2u https://t.co/MfFCRkn8r1

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 18, 2018

hell yeah

Justice Dems endorsed Nixon.

https://mdhslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/dems_for_nixon_bag1.jpg

I'm increasingly convinced DSA should stay out of electoral politics and focus on everything else it does - it seems like there are more than enough orgs out there to help support left-of-center Dems

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or what. Please say the former.

What should they spend time on besides getting left Dems elected everywhere they can? Being insufferable on old messageboards? Morbius has that covered. They’re not like ACLU or SPLC with a specific mission distinct from organizing and mobilization. Every left leaning group that doesn’t have such a mission, in fact, needs to be spending every minute recruiting candidates and getting them elected. It’s almost profoundly stupid to suggest there’s “enough” help for Democratic candidates running from the left end of the spectrum.

What should they spend time on besides getting left Dems elected everywhere they can?

Direct action, serve-the-people programs, education, supporting labor organizing...there's a lot!

This is probably best discussed on HOOS' thread tho

being old on insufferable messageboards

i'll see what i can do at the Central Brooklyn DSA if they ever schedule a meeting that's not opposite must-see rep cinema

I think there are pretty clear and well thought out arguments for DSA supporting some select candidates running on the dem ballot line and also pretty clear and well thought out arguments for why they shouldn't and can't just support whoever is running left of center. The most obvious reason for the latter is they simply don't have the resources to do that, but there are other good reasons as well. Agree maybe it's better to get into on the "left" thread rather than the dem party direction thread. But I think it would require a more thorough and nuanced understanding of what DSA actually is than Tom is expressing in order to understand.

separately, what do you think the odds are that Crowley's people quietly asked Lieberman to write that vs Lieberman just doing it on his own accord. Crowley's "I'm running but I'm not really running" schtick is looking more suspect by the minute.

How about 0%?

lol, based on what?

It makes absolutely no sense? Getting the one guy every Democrat hates to write an endorsement in the Wall Street Journal to achieve... what exactly?

to achieve trying to keep his candidacy alive because he wants to win and doesn't want AOC to go to congress