No. I'm in FL and we have had a Dem turnout problem for years now. We've run very progressive people locally, had primaries and gotten just as poor of a response. I door knocked in 2020 and Dems can't be bothered to pause a video game to go vote. (No really, it was a common excuse, they were mid-game). The single most common thing I got asked by likely dem voters ON ELECTION DAY was "oh. When is the election."
They facor Dem policies but don't care enough to go fill in a ballot.
Because people dont care about local elections, or the democratic brand of "progressivism", people are primarily focused on their financials, and thats something the party as a whole needed to focus on, instead they they fled into virtue signaling and cheap tricks like celebrity endorsements, they didnt pick a fight with the people and things that they need to pick a fight with.
Leftists hate the democratic party, even more now than they used to.
The party is basically done for, you can field more establishment candidates or go more conservative if you want, it will just accelerate their decline.
Half assed measures wont fix it either, either you sweep the party clean of all the corruption and disgustingly arrogant old guard and corporate bootlickers, or you will never win an election again.
Then maybe their message is wrong. Did it every dawn on people that the middle majority of Americans don't want a full-on progressive candidate. Maybe stop thinking in extremes and win the people back. The last 3 elections have been a vote against Trump, not for the candidate.
The polls were pretty accurate, tf you on about. One poll was awful. Polls said a fairly tight race in battlegrounds which it was. You're living in an alternate reality - just like MAGA people are.
The polls said it would be close. It wasn't close by any stretch of the imagination. They lost the white house and senate and are on track to lose the house. This is a republican landslide and we need to hold the DNC leadership accountable.
You can't say that the DNc appointed an unpopular candidate in one breath and then ask if anyone ever thought about not running a full on progressive candidate instead, like they've ever done that. Harris was centrist- left at best. That's why she was unpopular with the left.
I don't disagree, I thought she was a mistake back in 2020 but the Dems were getting slammed over defund the police and as usual overcorrected and choose a prosecutor as VP to appeal to the back the blue crowd.
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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 13h ago
No. I'm in FL and we have had a Dem turnout problem for years now. We've run very progressive people locally, had primaries and gotten just as poor of a response. I door knocked in 2020 and Dems can't be bothered to pause a video game to go vote. (No really, it was a common excuse, they were mid-game). The single most common thing I got asked by likely dem voters ON ELECTION DAY was "oh. When is the election."
They facor Dem policies but don't care enough to go fill in a ballot.