She’s the only federal level Democrat with any sort of broad public support.
No one else is note worthy or generally liked.
She is literally the only option. Anyone else is risking mass voter apathy and a voter turn out flop in an election that should be a slam dunk.
If you’re going to vote in the dem primaries, don’t fucking vote based on who “is most electable”, vote for who you want to win. Choosing the candidate that “is the most electable” keeps losing elections, because that crown keeps getting chosen by corporate owned media who just anoint that tittle to the most corporate friendly candidate, and voters don’t like corporate friendly candidates.
The most electable candidate is one who excites people, no one else even considered for running excites anyone except for corporate lobbyists.
This sentiment is not actually mutually exclusive. If AOC will get iced out and the corporate candidate is guaranteed to win anyway, then there’s no harm in voting for her during the primaries
That said, vote in the general no matter what. If you find voting for a milquetoast Dem unpalatable, which is totally reasonable, consider vote swapping with someone in a safe blue state.
I like her, but I also think Mark Kelly would be a strong candidate. Former military. Retired Astronaut. Wife survived an attempted political assassination. He stood up to the Trump administration who tried to charge him with crimes punishable by execution and waved it off.
Barley anyone knows his name or anything about him. If the candidate doesn’t throw down the gauntlet with the GOP and trump, show they can fight this shit, they will lose. Trying to convince ppl in a few months that that’s Kelly isn’t going to work. AOC is in the trenches fighting visibly, every day, and has Bernie’s backing, bigger name recognition, aligned with mamdani whose showing what’s possible with the next generation of dems, and is probably the best candidate with momentum to build around. I don’t know if even that’s enough though tbh.
It seems to me that Kelly is a centrist who stands for nothing in particular. Why have you decided to support him? Sure being a navy pilot and a member of Nasa is cool, but we dont need cool, we need a dem who will take a stand on the issues for once. Issue support is what we need to win, not some cult of personality.
I know who he is because I’m a space nerd and follow congressional politics closely, and I like him, but I also know that most voters don’t pay attention to congressional politics, nor remember the kind of news stories he’s showed up in.
She’s the only federal level Democrat with any sort of broad public support.
No one else is note worthy or generally liked.
She is literally the only option. Anyone else is risking mass voter apathy and a voter turn out flop in an election that should be a slam dunk.
If you’re going to vote in the dem primaries, don’t fucking vote based on who “is most electable”, vote for who you want to win. Choosing the candidate that “is the most electable” keeps losing elections, because that crown keeps getting chosen by corporate owned media who just anoint that tittle to the most corporate friendly candidate, and voters don’t like corporate friendly candidates.
The most electable candidate is one who excites people, no one else even considered for running excites anyone except for corporate lobbyists.
They’ll ice her out and close ranks against her the way they did for biden against Bernie.
And they’ll lose again.
This sentiment is not actually mutually exclusive. If AOC will get iced out and the corporate candidate is guaranteed to win anyway, then there’s no harm in voting for her during the primaries
And voting for her in the primary, and not the corporate candidate in the general, is the best way to signal exactly what this shit is costing them.
Totally agree.
That said, vote in the general no matter what. If you find voting for a milquetoast Dem unpalatable, which is totally reasonable, consider vote swapping with someone in a safe blue state.
I like her, but I also think Mark Kelly would be a strong candidate. Former military. Retired Astronaut. Wife survived an attempted political assassination. He stood up to the Trump administration who tried to charge him with crimes punishable by execution and waved it off.
Barley anyone knows his name or anything about him. If the candidate doesn’t throw down the gauntlet with the GOP and trump, show they can fight this shit, they will lose. Trying to convince ppl in a few months that that’s Kelly isn’t going to work. AOC is in the trenches fighting visibly, every day, and has Bernie’s backing, bigger name recognition, aligned with mamdani whose showing what’s possible with the next generation of dems, and is probably the best candidate with momentum to build around. I don’t know if even that’s enough though tbh.
It seems to me that Kelly is a centrist who stands for nothing in particular. Why have you decided to support him? Sure being a navy pilot and a member of Nasa is cool, but we dont need cool, we need a dem who will take a stand on the issues for once. Issue support is what we need to win, not some cult of personality.
But have you considered how electable a zionist white thumb is in Trump’s America? /s
AOC voted to continue arming Pissrael, so…
You’re right, she is such a zionist I am sure AIPAC will help fund her race for president. 🙄
Strawman arguments are a weak response to being presented with facts you don’t like being reminded of.
He’s not my favorite. But he’d be a strong candidate.
He would be a strong candidate… if he had a larger public profile with the average voter.
I like him, but the average voter doesn’t know about him. He doesn’t even rank in battle ground polling.
Obama went from a nobody to an unbeatable candidate virtually overnight.
If OP didn’t follow up his name with his CV I wouldn’t have remembered who it was…
I know who he is because I’m a space nerd and follow congressional politics closely, and I like him, but I also know that most voters don’t pay attention to congressional politics, nor remember the kind of news stories he’s showed up in.