IN-SEN: Brains or Braun?

[lfromnj]

The Indiana Democratic Party seems to be giving the Florida Democratic Party a run for its money in terms of ineffectiveness.

John Zody needs to be fired like yesterday.

And Donnelly was a fool for hiring Peter Hanscom as campaign manager.  No one should hire him for anything again.  

I canvassed for Democrats in Indianapolis. They are a hot mess.

I compared the 2012 results to this year's.  Turnout in Lake and Marion was abysmal, and Donnelly lost ground in many places he won six years ago.  Looking at the numbers in St. Joseph County, they were awful for him.  I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up losing his old congressional district (both the current gerrymandered one and the one that he served before the Senate).

"I'm voting for the local Democrats, but I'm really not sure about Donnelly," was a common refrain I heard, when not getting the door slammed in my face by the Former Democrats of Speedway.

Ouch.  Was Kavanaugh a factor, or was it the onslaught of "I'm not like those Crazy Democrats" commercials?

Donnely really should have seen the writing on the wall and tried to win hamilton county instead of those rurals. That would have been the only way to win. Instead Donnely probably turned those voters off with immigration rhetoric.

[lfromnj]

The Indiana Democratic Party seems to be giving the Florida Democratic Party a run for its money in terms of ineffectiveness.

John Zody needs to be fired like yesterday.

And Donnelly was a fool for hiring Peter Hanscom as campaign manager.  No one should hire him for anything again.  

I canvassed for Democrats in Indianapolis. They are a hot mess.

I compared the 2012 results to this year's.  Turnout in Lake and Marion was abysmal, and Donnelly lost ground in many places he won six years ago.  Looking at the numbers in St. Joseph County, they were awful for him.  I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up losing his old congressional district (both the current gerrymandered one and the one that he served before the Senate).

"I'm voting for the local Democrats, but I'm really not sure about Donnelly," was a common refrain I heard, when not getting the door slammed in my face by the Former Democrats of Speedway.

Ouch.  Was Kavanaugh a factor, or was it the onslaught of "I'm not like those Crazy Democrats" commercials?

A lot of it is he doesn't really stand for anything, and he ran campaign ads touting how he's "with Trump when Trump is good for Hoosiers," and his commitment to funding the border wall. With Democrats like him, who needs Republicans?

There were also probably moderates who were upset with the Kavanaugh process, and union types not happy about his company shipping jobs to Mexico while he swore up and down about how he was going to protect American jobs.

It was a disaster.

Yeah, in retrospect, he was a pretty bleh candidate.  I appreciate his bipartisanship, but he had a LOT of cringe-y moments on the campaign trail.  Not that Braun was any dynamic campaigner, but he DID have an edge with the fact that this is Pence's home state, Trump is the President, and Kavanaugh was looming on a lot of minds.

I think someone in the mold of Lee Hamilton or Birch Bayh could have held the seat.

For these states democrats literally need to clone Jason Kander at this point and send him to every single state. The fact he only lost by 3 when Trump was on the ballot 2 years ago seems like a miracle at this point.

[lfromnj]

At this point, Mayor Pete is probably the Indiana Democrats' only hope of achieving anything statewide.

whats so special about pete buttigeg?