Awfully dense comment section here. The idea is simple. Too much progressive too fast leads to backlash that ends in less actual sustainable positive changes. There is a clear counterargument, but no need to pretend you can't figure it out. Don't be dumb.
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They said they had mixed feelings. It's not like they haven't been called the N-word behind their backs in the past. This is Mississippi where the chuds abound. They might be a bit skeptical. Also, the one girl just double-downed so there's that. Only one is possibly sincere.
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Um, you left out the part where when confronted about it, the 2nd girl doubled-down and made the monkey sounds again, while the first one apologized and said it wasn't targeted. That's a pretty damn big difference!
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I think a more benign explanation is that the miss did not change the expected outcome so not worth as much attention. Like an NFL team winning by 40 instead of 20 is less of a miss than a team losing by 10 when they should have won by 10. But, still an issue and polling is hard.
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Ok Paul Ryan. Might as well come out against football and ribs and for pedophilia. Oh yes, I forgot, you already did on the latter. Richard, sometimes you the MAN and sometimes you just a weird lunatic.
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Most saying Michigan was impossible to win is surely an overstatement, but what would Twitter be without an occasional overstatement. Maybe he meant to write Mississippi. Stupid auto-correct! Seems pretty benign overall.
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It wasn't like there wasn't a firehose of Elon Musk money in Texas. And I happen to believe the islamophobic campaign backfired and actually helped El-Sayed, but hope springs eternal on my faith in humanity.
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I will add the El-Sayed did the same. Israel became less of an issue (basically stopped talking about it). He talked about affordability and health care and football and suddenly he's acceptable. In this environment, that's leads to a big win. Plus he's a talented politician.
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Nothing to do with their politics! This is the fantasy that people on both extremes like to tell themselves. Of course it was the politics. If Talarico doesn't present himself as largely acceptable politically to median Texas voters, he loses. Once he did that, it was an easy win
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This is the single dumbest take I have read today. And I've been on Twitter for 20 minutes so that says something.
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Sorry iamsock. Responding to Tony dude who blocked me like all those maga bitches do. Call me a Zionist!? When I say no one cares about Israel, I mean me most of all. If the Palestinians took over Israel tomorrow, I wouldn’t bat an eye. The misreads from you guys is astounding.
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This is an unhealthy obsession. I think El-Sayed is fantastic and look forward to him in the Senate. He still underperformed. I think he is enough of a star that he can overcome that in the future. That is not the case for all our most left candidates and that's important info.
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He is not constantly attacking the left, at least no more than Hasan constantly attacks the center-left. Dems do not win because of Israel. No one actually fucking cares about Israel. So Progressives are not driving anything here. They do well when they go center like Abdul did.
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