Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president.
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How is it apples to apples, in 2018 Republicans controlled the white house, Dems were supposed to increase their turnout as they were in the opposition.
With most people favoring a clean increase The GOP was more likely to get the blame.Biden can also point to The GOP demanding shit that had nothing to do with increasing debt limit.When you are on the right side the fight is worth fighting.
In June 2018, Barnes won the Democratic Party of Wisconsin straw poll with 80.9% of the vote, earning 617 out of 763 votes.[31] During the primary, his name was omitted from election notices in three newspapers in two different counties.[32] The day before the election, his picture was used in a local news report about a fatal motorcycle crash.[32]
Makes you wonder how much money the DNC deployed for this race? Not like it's above corpodems to sabotage prog campaigns in favor of closer aligned GOP.
Upon cursory digging:
But Wisconsin’s Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler has offered a different theory: that the national party fatally injured the Barnes campaign by underfunding it. The Barnes campaign did out-raise Johnson, but as Wikler noted in a recent New York Times story, Barnes was buried by Johnson in spending by outside groups, where Johnson had a stunning $26.4 million edge. And those outside groups generally take their cue from party leaders.
“If you were going to allocate resources for maximum impact,” Mr. Wikler told the Times, “you wouldn’t let Mandela Barnes be outspent by $26 million on independent expenditures and lose by 26,000 votes” (out of more than 2.6 million votes cast).
But while the airwaves were saturated, there’s no doubt that more of the fire — and spending — was coming from the Johnson campaign. I can’t recall a race in this state where a candidate got such a pummeling. Mailers sent by Republicans actually darkened Barnes’ skin color, while some TV ads from a Republican super PAC superimposed his name next to images of crime scenes. “There were weeks where we would get outspent two-to-one on TV,” Barnes told the Times back in October. “There has been an unprecedented amount of negative spin against me.”
Mid term turnout to mid term turnout.Presidential turn out is always higher.
And all this blaming game would happen while the economy has collapsed and progs would be comforting themselves that GOP gets more blame (hypothetically)
Its just as hypothetical that The GOP would have allowed default.If the economy collapsed it would have been GOPs fault and let the voters decide in 2024.
Or at least dems could've run ads to that effect prior like they did last time cons tried this stunt.
Indeed.Rolling over like Biden did was the worst action imo.
It was all a bluff imo,I don't think The GOP would have allowed default.
That's where I've been at since McCarthy was chosen in the 12th round.