I think you’re making a very important point regarding supporting the best candidate for the district. We can’t win if we try to manipulate the candidates and end up with a candidate that can’t win the district. Honestly, it’s common sense but sometimes common sense takes a while.
This throwing out the baby with the bath water OR making good the enemy of perfect is going to make winning so much harder, if not impossible in some places. I carried a VOTE sign (no, not very clever) in the No Kings rally because really that is the bottom line. Our Lyft driver did not vote for Kamala because he didn’t really like her. He voted for some 3rd party candidate! And so here we are. Vote for who can well represent you even if he or she or they does not represent you perfectly. Thanks Arielle for continually making this point so well.
It was confusing how Deja Foxx was considered by many (on social media anyways) as the more progressive choice when in actuality, Adelita Grijalva had a far more progressive platform as well as endorsements (Ilhan Omar, AOC, Bernie Sanders). I think of that example often when there's a lot of out-of-state hype for a particular candidate which isn't necessarily reflected in the state. I'm curious to see how Maine shakes out. Hope that awful anti-voting referendum doesn't pass. Thank you for the wins as always (I especially love to see the red state ones like Indiana)!
I think you’re making a very important point regarding supporting the best candidate for the district. We can’t win if we try to manipulate the candidates and end up with a candidate that can’t win the district. Honestly, it’s common sense but sometimes common sense takes a while.
This throwing out the baby with the bath water OR making good the enemy of perfect is going to make winning so much harder, if not impossible in some places. I carried a VOTE sign (no, not very clever) in the No Kings rally because really that is the bottom line. Our Lyft driver did not vote for Kamala because he didn’t really like her. He voted for some 3rd party candidate! And so here we are. Vote for who can well represent you even if he or she or they does not represent you perfectly. Thanks Arielle for continually making this point so well.
It was confusing how Deja Foxx was considered by many (on social media anyways) as the more progressive choice when in actuality, Adelita Grijalva had a far more progressive platform as well as endorsements (Ilhan Omar, AOC, Bernie Sanders). I think of that example often when there's a lot of out-of-state hype for a particular candidate which isn't necessarily reflected in the state. I'm curious to see how Maine shakes out. Hope that awful anti-voting referendum doesn't pass. Thank you for the wins as always (I especially love to see the red state ones like Indiana)!