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Jon Kessler's avatar

Perhaps what house members are describing is voter frustration that none of our leaders or up-and-comers has yet shown they can light up the socials the way FDR, Reagan, or Clinton gained mass fellowship through the medium of their day. An attractive combination of backstory, identity, and voting record isn’t sufficient or perhaps even necessary. We expect our leaders to engage with us more directly than ever. To do that at scale requires absolute mastery of social media.

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Vince Rothman's avatar

The problem is that Democrats are out of power and until they get back into power there’s not much they can do. It does seem pretty bad that representatives are being told to be soldiers.

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Shaun Dakin's avatar

Great piece.... Dear Democrats, Epstein will not be the one thing to bring him down. Every few weeks we scream 😱 THIS IS IT! This will be THE THING that brings him down. Nope. Never. Ever. And every second dems spend with their knee jerk liberal reaction to Trump is time they aren't spending creating a majority party that has a vision for the future voters will respond to.

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Victor Thompson Mas's avatar

Charisma is absolutely important. Specially if you have a tainted past like Cuomo. Or if you are running on platitudes as platform.

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Jeff C's avatar

I wish I could read the labels on that chart . . .

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