DCCC moving senior staff to Orange County, CA

[DrScholl]

I can obviously understand why they'd go after these California districts (Hillary won them in 2016, more at-risk incumbents), but I hope this isn't Dem leadership trying to change their main base of support to upper-class moderates when a more populist party could flip more seats than the former strategy. Not only that but it's just bad politically, it means Dems might shift further to right.

That's exactly what it is, and we all know it. They have more money to give you, and great parties, and way nicer houses than those racist hicks in Appalachia or those problematic steelworkers in Ohio. Goldman Sachs wears the mask of social justice in the Democratic Party.

You target the seats that are competitive. It's a waste of time to target seats that are never going to flip.

[DrScholl]

Or, none of those seats in Appalachia or in the WCW Midwest are particularly competitive at all, while in suburban California, New York, Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Virginia there are vulnerable Republicans in Clinton districts who can be defeated.

Smart move.

You target the seats that are competitive. It's a waste of time to target seats that are never going to flip.

Tactically, it's a smart move. Strategically, it's a troubling sign to those of us who want a party of the left.

Appalachia is hardly a left wing region, so to win there would require going to the right.

[DrScholl]

Again, you play where you have a good chance of winning and you play early. Tougher seats don't become competitive until much later in the cycle and that will be the time to play in those seats.