Message from @devpav
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I'm still expecting Crowley to win back his seat from AOC in November. The Dem establishment will just toss a few million at his third-party campaign.
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I don't know.
Most people are pretty alike politically
People said the same thing about Trump right until the end.
you just have to actually have a conversation
It would be a huge disruption of the order for Crowley to be even fighting AOC in Nov.
And I highly doubt he'd put himself into that fight.
Anyone notice Cortez isnt getting as much coverage anymore?
Yeah.
I think she kinda blew up.
But it says that they just dropped her instead of playing her everywhere like they did for Palin.
It has happened before on both sides. Hell, Murkowski lost her GOP primary and then won a *write-in* campaign during the general election.
think she'll win?
Partially because Palin was still at the forefront, but mostly because I think the media realized she was too close to what they wanted and not a good representative.
Cortez? Absolutely.
why?
The Dem Party is very top-down and exerts a great deal of control on it's members for historical reasons.
So you think she'll be watered down?
Fight the official primary system and you guarantee a huge mess for someone.
I think she'll just be ignored outside the base.
There's politicians like that on both sides of the aisle.
hers?
The progressive base.
yea
Like, everyone not in SF or NYC will ignore her.
And the media will figure it out and not bring her up.
@devpav something like that. But if you bend the rules it causes chaos and the party bosses won't like that.
And since Cortez's base is the most energized and active part of the base, they won't risk alienating them further. They need footsoldiers to run door to door for voter registration drives and campaigning.
If Crowley was mounting a serious challenge, he would have been making noise already.
The Dems already spend millions astroturfing all of that.
Money and people are different resources.
You need both.
The Dems use money to buy people. That's Soros's schtick.
actively campaigning (volunteers and all) works, might not always win but its a fantastic way to get awareness out or get out to vote
Dems and Repubs campaign
although they put more effort into it if the area is swing