Wonder if Trump/Rs would rather all of these come out in the next month or two so you can maybe blame it on the shutdown/still plenty of time before the midterms.

but then wouldn't the universal rule be some form of moderation has to exist to win in a swing district? Totally agree that what exactly works for Jacky Rosen might not be exactly what works for Jared Golden but that it has to exist in some form to win.

What’s the example of the Democrat in a swing/red seat who won without some degree of moderation?

Plus the affordability issue Dems are most associated with (health care) is least relevant to that cohort.

My 26 guess is Dems have 22 performance with young/non-white voters and close to the best performance ever with older voters. Assuming GOP nominates Vance in 28, Dems coalition becomes older and GOP coalition becomes younger.

Feels like Torre’s pod/channel has the most potential in this world.

Sure but Scott also has been a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, passed gun safety legislation, and voted for Harris. There is no Democrat in the country doing that in reverse.

This feels like enough for Jon Ossoff and/or Roy Cooper to win, I doubt it’s enough to be competitive for a senate race in Iowa or Florida or Texas

sure but then what's the explanation for how Jacky Rosen was able to win in Nevada where Trump won by 3% or how Henry Cuellar wins in a district Trump won by 7% or Governor Scott wins in Vermont in 2022 as Senator Welch wins by 40%.

Green Day?

that's a path to maybe getting a cabinet position and/or being a top tier candidate for 32 or 36 not 28.

It was Afghanistan not Iraq. 133 House members voted against and 23 Senators.

The Polis vs. Tlaib online commentary will have more online flame wars than votes gained.

Who’s the Mark Udall of this cycle?

Sure but there’s no current way to ban scam PACs from sending cold texts. Even if ActBlue banned orgs if they send cold texts, they’d just move to a different payment processor. So it’s either endless scam PACs or at least some texts that can get people to be encouraged by Dem candidates.

I'd rather dem donors actually see young and exciting candidates running for office not just the 8th spam pac text to stand with Cory Booker. The video is an actual tangible thing for people to engage with and it's hard to get the word out in a fragmented media ecosystem.

I think it’s net-positive for candidates (and progressive ecosystem) to send a mass text to the gigantic universe of endlessly swapped lists with the announcement video but the random texts when nothing has happened specific to the candidate are net-bad.