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Only now just tuning into this election but this last ad is honestly pretty good. People are being hurt financially by high prices and soaring rent and who doesn't love a tax cut?

Obviously my questions are, "How much would this actually help reduce prices?", "It's not government taxes that are driving up rent", and "That money is gonna have to come from the budget somewhere, so what does that mean for schools, roads, government services, etc" but this isn't how the average voter thinks.

Furthermore I think it's a pretty smart strategy to release these smiling, positive, calm and issue-oriented ads in the last week(s) of the campaign, when the other side has been trying to paint you as Satan incarnate for the past year. It really can deflate the attack. I never heard her speak before but now I clearly can see how her time in the media taught her how to talk to people.

This is again one major complaint I have about the Democratic party: why aren't you addressing material concerns like this? Obviously I am horrified by the Dobbs decision but you need to run broad campaigns that appeal to people for whom abortion may not really be an issue. You can talk about abortion while also talking about similar things like cutting sales taxes on groceries, or (for national Dems) an excess profit tax.

I would not be surprised if Lake stomps Hobbs on election night. I have become very disillusioned with American political discourse but this is exactly the kind of campaigns I wish we had more of: less polemics and culture war stuff, more discussion of material, kitchen table issues. If Lake wins, she will have earned it IMO.

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