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Chickensoup

(650 posts)
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:33 AM Jun 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez victory, a warning to the Democratic party establishment.

ladies and gentlemen your message is predictable but unacceptable.
This is not business as usual time. We need more vision and more guts.
You are basically the only opposition party we have to confront the madness at hand. So do your job.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez victory, a warning to the Democratic party establishment. (Original Post) Chickensoup Jun 2018 OP
Womp Womp propoganda. NCTraveler Jun 2018 #1
Amen! justhanginon Jun 2018 #2
Here's your theme song. johnp3907 Jun 2018 #3
+1 n/t FSogol Jun 2018 #5
cool story bro ! stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #4
What shallow nonesense. These Monday morning quarter backs are so full of it in their political still_one Jun 2018 #6
Yawwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn leftynyc Jun 2018 #7
Exactly - didn't he send a stand in for one of his meetings... asiliveandbreathe Jun 2018 #10
Ah, welcome to election season on DU jberryhill Jun 2018 #8
again, flawed analysis concerning a single district with an arrogant incumbent beachbum bob Jun 2018 #9
And here come the demands, the threats and the recriminations BannonsLiver Jun 2018 #11
BS fallout87 Jun 2018 #12

still_one

(92,372 posts)
6. What shallow nonesense. These Monday morning quarter backs are so full of it in their political
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:47 AM
Jun 2018

analysis based on New York's 14th very blue Congressional District.

Theses attempts to extrapolate sweeping conclusions from one blue district election in New York represents one thing, those New Yorkers in the 14th district.

I guess the implied conclusion some would extrapolate from this is that Cynthia Nixon would be another long shot winner. We will see how that turns out.

It also conveniently ignores the previous special elections that have taken place thus far, and perhaps the most striking event that every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states in 2016 lost to the establishment, incumbent, republican, and those Democrats were liberal by any standard.

Time of course will be the final arbitrator, but to draw a sweeping conclusion on one blue district, is such an over-simplification is laughable.


 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
7. Yawwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:47 AM
Jun 2018

Take your divisive message elsewhere, cupcake. One district that has changed demographically and had an incumbent who took his win for granted and didn't even show up for the debate. It means nothing larger.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
10. Exactly - didn't he send a stand in for one of his meetings...
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:58 AM
Jun 2018

took a win for granted..indeed!!!!! - Demographics..she spoke to her constituents...imagine that....

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. Ah, welcome to election season on DU
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:49 AM
Jun 2018


Hey OP, if you want to send a message to the Democratic party establishment, then you go right ahead and do so.

They aren't here.

If you want to talk to fellow human beings with a range of opinions and perspectives, then try communicating as if you have some humanity in you, instead of issuing orders to a forum of actual human beings.

"You are basically the only opposition party we have"

Very telling use of pronouns. As "you" refers to Democrats, but is distinct from whomever "we" might be.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
9. again, flawed analysis concerning a single district with an arrogant incumbent
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:54 AM
Jun 2018

this is NOT A WARNING under any scenario. You need to look at the districts demographics first and foremost

BannonsLiver

(16,439 posts)
11. And here come the demands, the threats and the recriminations
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:18 AM
Jun 2018

Lazy, hot take OPs like this are why my moneys on trump winning another term.

 

fallout87

(819 posts)
12. BS
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:22 AM
Jun 2018

Just because it worked in a deep blue district... doesn't mean it will work in white suburbia... you know... those places we need to win in order to take the house back? This isn't difficult stuff to comprehend.

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