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Democratic strategists are still patting themselves on the back for a catastrophic defeat.

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[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 69 points 7 months ago (37 children)

The DNC hasn't had a real primary since 2008. That's the real problem.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well of course they didn't, they got their asses kicked. From what I saw they ran the Hillary Clinton 2.0 campaign.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"No primaries until you vote for the candidate on your plate"

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No shit?

A flawless campaign would have won.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, you can do everything right and still lose.

That said, the reason she was initially lauded as running a great campaign was picking up Biden's campaign from a cold start and making it much closer than map coloring makes it appear. She definitely did make mistakes in there too though, so not flawless at all.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not true.

A perfect campaign would address the issuers voters have, and not insist everything is fine and voters facing homeless or food insecurity are just "leftists insisting on purity".

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

That's why I said she made some mistakes, and it wasn't a flawless campaign.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 12 points 7 months ago

How could they try to gaslight people who refused to compromise their ethics into believing that it's their fault without pretending to have run a flawless campaign?

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