This is a smart recap of why Nina Turner lost from someone who was actually on the ground in Ohio. A quick recap:
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Establishment Democrats absolutely flooded Cleveland with anti-Turner content in the month leading up to the election. You couldn't look around without seeing a billboard quoting Turner saying "voting Biden is like eating half a bowl of shit." That was an effective attack because most Democratic primary voters like Biden and the Democratic Party (sadly). It wasn't impossible to overcome (Turner almost won!), but it was effective. TV and billboard ads are extremely powerful tools in electoral politics because the average voter is 55 years old and watches 5 hours of TV a day (this is not an exaggeration).
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Nina Turner ran a positive campaign, Shontel Brown saw she was down big and went negative first. Negative campaigning works. When Turner saw her internal polls collapsing she went negative, but it was too little too late.
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Turner's ground game was not very strong. They sent in the cavalry and flooded Cleveland with volunteers once the race tightened, but she needed to be doing that for months, not weeks.
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Yes, dark money sucks. But there's no invisible referee coming to save us from dark money. Part of fighting a huge, corrupt establishment is understanding that they're going to throw every dirty trick they have at you. And remember, even with the dark money, Turner had more total money than Brown.
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Jim Clyburn had nothing to do with this race. Most people in OH-11 don't know who he is. He's a power broker in South Carolina, not nationally.
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And even a people's party would get fucked because people are easily scared by third party voters and again, the TV would just tell people to not vote for them.
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I would also say that most third party leaders are cranks with huge egos and only do presidential candidate runs.
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That and the size and power of the American middle class is enough to crush any working class party out there.
both of those attributes are in rapid decline however
Eh, we’ll see. I think at some point the government and banks are gonna step into to make sure their legionaries don’t go broke.
And honestly even if they do the American people are so cucked they could be living in favelas and still Stan their fucked society.
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At least capitalism is knocking down that particular hurdle for us
I doubt it. Smarter heads in the financial world will realize the middle class is the only buffer between them and the rabble and will consent to passing some new deal type shit to save it. It’ll piss off all the Musk Bezos type cowboy capitalists but they’re creditors will tell them to shut it.
That or they’ll all flee to New Zealand, idk.
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I'm just glad it isn't young people being like this (yet).