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Fiendish Thingy

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1. Punch bowl? Ugh

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Sat Nov 23, 2024, 09:18 AM

Nov 23

They are worse than the Hill.

“The party grapples with a brutal election cycle”

Sure, Dems lost the WH by a narrow margin, and a couple of senate seats by narrow margins, but it looks like they will have a net gain in the house- not exactly “brutal”.

A message of “power de concentration” might work in the midterms after a couple of years of power concentrated in the hands of MAGA nuts, but I also think running on good governance might also be effective, once the Trump administration wreaks economic havoc that cannot be blamed on a pandemic,

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Murphy's case for populism [View all] Passages Nov 23 OP

Punch bowl? Ugh Fiendish Thingy Nov 23 #1

The information is straight forward, punchbowl or not. Passages Nov 23 #2

No populist can succeed without the assistance of the media Fiendish Thingy Nov 23 #3

You are confused. Passages Nov 23 #4

Tell me who/what approach will work to sway low information voters? Nt Fiendish Thingy Nov 23 #5

Read what Murphy is proposing. Passages Nov 23 #6

Town halls aren't the equivalent of demagoguery Fiendish Thingy Nov 23 #7

No, I said nothing of the kind. Passages Nov 23 #8

We tried that message and voters didn't care Blue_Tires Nov 23 #9

Obviously I can't speak for him, but my sense is he does not believe we tried that message quite Passages Nov 23 #10