Yeah, it’s me again dammit. I’m a political junkie. I might not be very good at it, but I try. And I try to learn. And I even do some research once in a while, to try and avoid sounding like the Rosslyn Village Idiot. It’s full of political reports and aggregations, with things like “Safe R”, and “R +10”, and some of them have nothing to do with current polling. They’re based on past performance and demographics.
You might have noticed that I’ve been doing a lot of diaries lately highlighting down ballot candidates. This isn’t about Rec’s and glory. If we want to get President Clinton off to a good start, we need to give her the tools to work with. That means control of the Senate and at least a GOP diluted House. These diaries can help to do this.
In several of my diaries I have received comments that I’m a “dreamer”, or that a race is “out of reach”. Not only do I not mind that, I want it! I strive to read every one of my comments, not just for the back slaps and applause, but for the people who think I’m full of shit. I want to know what my readers think, just as long as it’s respectful and thought out. That’s all I ask.
But now I am asking you all for something else, and it’s very easy. For the next 30 days can we please forget about “Safe R”, and R +10” and all of the rest of that. Those things are based on history and demographics. In other words they are based on “normal” calculations. This is by no means a “normal” cycle, it is unprecedented. Trump has changed the dynamic, and in doing so he has turned “normal” on its head, like Alice through the looking glass.
Trump is like the Fukushima power plant. The cataclysmic event might be isolated, but it’s the winds and the radioactive cloud that kill. Yesterday I heard two separate GOP strategists, on two different channels, MSNBC and CNN both state independently that as a result of this Trump tape, Trump will lose not only NV, he will likely lose GA, UT and even TX. This is why we have this cavalcade of GOP ballot mice scrambling all of a sudden to denounce Trump. They’re scared shitless for their own skins. When you have candidates in “safe” GOP states like MT, ID, SD and UT bailing on Trump instead of riding out the storm in their own “safe” enclaves, that should tell you something. They don’t have bio-hazard suits and they smell the cloud coming.
So, please don’t get discouraged by history, it’s a “brave new day”. We don’t need disgruntled Trump supporters to vote for Hillary, although it would be nice, we just need them to stay the fuck home! If they don’t come out to the polls, not only does Trump suffer, the down ballot races are starved for those votes. We need to make Trump every bit as toxic and radioactive as possible, demoralize the GOP voting bloc, make them ashamed to come out and vote. And then we have to go out like a thousand bastard Freddie Kruger’s, motivate, register and GOTV of every Democrat in every district. Not only will it make a difference at the national level, but if state and even local Democratic candidates tie every opponent to Trump, we can make gains in states as well.
To close, I’m going to keep pumping away at the down ballot candidates for the next 30 days. And I beg you to join me. Please don’t tell me anything is out of reach in this cycle. Granted, due to DNC non intervention we have some races where there is no Democrat running, there’s nothing we can do about that, it has to be fixed after the election. But, in this particular, unique cycle, if there’s a Democrat running, we may be able to make a difference, we are the most powerful progressive online community on the planet. Let’s use our powers wisely.
Thanks as always for reading, you are all the wind beneath my wings!
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