surph_ninja@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Axelrod pushes for Rahm Emanuel as DNC chair
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13 hours agoOne of the most corrupt people in the party. Genius.
One of the most corrupt people in the party. Genius.
The Georgia process actually required the Dems to go through an appeal, so I’m sure it wasn’t cheap.
She’s on the ballot, or has write-in status in 42 states. Dems only managed to successfully kick her off the ballot in 2 states.
The Democrats don’t spend millions in legal fees to sue “fringe candidates” off of the ballot.
Yeah, media refusing to cover a candidate tends to impact their polling. Big surprise.
Dems have the same issue in suburban & rural Georgia. They obsessively court Republican voters, and refuse to represent any of the priorities that would bring out their own base and working class voters.
The party election apparatus exists to pay lucrative salaries to overpriced consultants. Ask any local candidates who’ve run as a Dem. All the party or associated orgs ever really “offer” is a list of expensive consultants they want you to use. If you don’t have the funds to pay for the consultants, you may as well not exist to them. And those same consultants will push you towards policies that bring in the most donations, to pay for more consultants, etc.
They’ll continue to cater to a sliver of Republican voters at the expense of their base, simply because their base wants policies that don’t bring in donations.