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Democrat Tries Trump-Voter Cosplay; Still Loses

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Republicans won a special election in Kansas on Thursday for an open house seat; but the Democrats were eager to hand “Trump’s Party” a defeat and spent a lot of time and effort on the race. (See also,  Georgia’s 6th district, where the Democrats have a much better shot because the Republican vote will be split among a vanload of challengers).

One thing that strikes me is how carefully they crafted the image of their challenger. In campaign photos, he is depicted as unshaven, casually dressed with a baseball cap. You can see the consultants choosing this look … “So those Joe Sixpack, bitter clinger types will think he’s one of their own.” But still, the choice of eyewear communicates to Democrats, “It’s OK to vote for him, because he’s smart.”

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  5. An attorney, eh…? Oh that really brings Joe Sixpack running to the polls. Seriously, did Dems learn nothing from the big national race in 2016? The slick lawyer contingent didn’t do so well and are reviled by the voters of the vanquished candidate in the primary and by the voters of the winner in the general.

    This whole just-one-of-the-guys thing has been tried before. Jon Tester was a guy with a flattop haircut who was working on the farm and spending the start of every year in the Montana Senate before he had a surprise win over the been-there-too-long incumbent and shuffled off to Washington. Now, ten years later, he’s just another one of the DC Democrats, largely indistinguishable from a Chuckie Schumer or a Dicky Durbin. He makes next-state-over Senator Heidi Heitkamp look like Phyllis Schlafly by comparison. Thankfully the Wichita area wasn’t snowed by the airbrushing of someone who’d be more than happy to vote with San Fran Nan the majority of the time.

    Next Tuesday will be interesting to see if the Millennial Boy Wonder in Georgia’s CD-6 can throw his pretty-boyness over the 49.999999% mark and slither into Newt Gingrich’s old seat. If he does, it won’t be because of the alleged anti-Trump backlash, but because Republicans still can’t figure out that three or more challengers usually results in throwing the election to the person with the most to gain.

    Meanwhile, in my state, Dems are in disarray as they lost a net one seat in the legislature last year for a low number of Dem legislators not seen since the 1920s. They just elected a Bernie supporter over the previous Hillary supporter who was running for reelection as Dem state party chair. The new guy thinks they need to go back to their roots as the party of the working man/woman/non-gender specific, including aligning with the unions. But most of the union workers are in the coal & traditional energy industries, which are poison to national Democrats and don’t see the Dems as the party of anything but destruction of their livelihood. What to do?

  10. what the comments seem to show is what I believe to be a real difference of opinion among the citizens of the country as to what they want from their elected representatives and the government. I believe among the politicians there is no such difference, there is really only one party. what we have every election is an intra-party dispute over which faction of the party is going to be in charge.