that reminds me,

special elections in off-season years can be gamed

there's a special election in March,

by massive disparities in fundraising and GOTV efforts

Pennsylvania

oh yeah, that's important

Media coverage helped a lot with that though @FLanon . Media shilled for Hillary 24/7 and was biased for her.

18th district,

this is concentrated with White Working Class Voters,

(Trump's base)

this election should be an indicator of Trump's actual approval

fair enough, and I remember the wikileaks emails that showed that the media wanted trump to win to make sure that clinton would win, but the principle still stands for me

yeah, in elections that don't get much attention (primary races, off-season races), recognition is a HUGE issue

and I'd argue that fundraising is more important in primary races and off-season races than in the more publicized midterm and presidential year races

take a look at FL polls for the primaries and the MI polls before Kid Rock dropped out, they blow the competitors in their own party by miles

referring to Rick Scott in FL btw

it's very easy for people like us to assume that the general population cares as much as we do

that's why we need to mold them

sure, Alabama and Virginia got quite a bit of attention on the national level, but still not nearly as much as the 2016 Presidential election did

I bet you my balls that if I asked 50 random people here in NYC who "Ralph Northam" is, at least 45 of them would have no clue

outside of VA, sure

it'd probably be over half not knowing in VA

also, I bet if you went to some random college in Virginia in 2017, and asked 50 of them who "Ralph Northam" was, most wouldn't know

yeah

it's very easy to forget how out of touch the typical normie is

(by the way, is anyone else annoyed at how /pol/ and 4channers in general refer to SJW leftists with dyed hair as "normies" ????)

real normies are apathetic to politics

SJW leftists have more acceptance in the media and in academia, sure

but in the general population they are anything but 'normal'

there's some overlap

there are a lot of 'normies' who voted for Trump but spend the vast majority of their time not even thinking about politics

Chads and Stacies who go to college in South Carolina are pretty 'normie' but Trump supporting at the same time

but not crazy about it like people on /pol/ are

Probably "for the lols" since its Trump

likewise, I know a lot of 'normies' here in NYC who voted Hillary but aren't sperging out about Trump

I suppose, yeah, the typical normie who gets bombarded by media and entertainment 24 hours a day probably wouldn't be right wing though

In general, people don't care about Trump as much as you think

back in 2016, I asked my mom if she knew who Bernie Sanders was, and she said "oh...he's a businessman, right???"

kek

I wish twitter would shut the fuck about him for a second though

Twitter leftists are the fucking worst