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Originally Posted by opendoor
What a stupidly simplistic argument. Progressive Democratic candidates lost elections in areas they never win elections anyway. Shocking...
What matters is how they did relative to how they normally do in those areas. Just as a quick test, I looked at a list of Justice Democrat supported candidates who lost their general election:
https://ballotpedia.org/Justice_Democrats |
It was well documented in the aftermath of 2018 that progressive candidates also lost in purple districts, not just long shot red districts.
https://www.businessinsider.com/prog...dterms-2018-11
Your general point could be right, but the data you provided isn't compelling in isolation either. It'd be more meaningful to compare the relative magnitude of the justice dem/progressive gains versus the moderates in 2018. You'd expect all dems to get a bump in the mid-term following the election of a normal republican president, and I'd expect the anti-Trump vote probably exaggerated that effect in some places.