Politico: GA special election will be most expensive House race in U.S history

[Yank2133]

Sad how much money Democrats are spending on some bland candidate in a district that is more Democratic than the median district.

This bland candidate is doing much better in this district than some random Berniecrat you would've rallied behind.

That's correct, considering that there's no way the DNCC would've lifted a finger to help elect a Sanders ally in a special election, thus rendering the campaign of "some random Berniecrat" doomed from the start.

Oh my f-ing god can we stop this?! Please? Ossoff is fine just cause Bernie doesn't drool on him doesn't make him bad and not every "Berniecrat" who runs is some pathetic nobody who the DNC shouldn't help  

My opinion of Jon Ossoff isn't at all related to Sanders' comments regarding his questionable progressive credentials or whatnot; after all, Sanders and OR have made plenty of questionable endorsements in the past. That being said, the fact that the Democratic Party is putting far more resources into a seat like GA-06 as opposed to somewhere like Montana is a testament to how far the party has fallen.

Fallen? It is called being smart, GA-06 is the exact type of seat they are going to have to win in 2018 to regain the house.

God grief, we are ****ed. People don't even know what the playing field looks like.

[Yank2133]

Sad how much money Democrats are spending on some bland candidate in a district that is more Democratic than the median district.

This bland candidate is doing much better in this district than some random Berniecrat you would've rallied behind.

That's correct, considering that there's no way the DNCC would've lifted a finger to help elect a Sanders ally in a special election, thus rendering the campaign of "some random Berniecrat" doomed from the start.

Oh my f-ing god can we stop this?! Please? Ossoff is fine just cause Bernie doesn't drool on him doesn't make him bad and not every "Berniecrat" who runs is some pathetic nobody who the DNC shouldn't help  

My opinion of Jon Ossoff isn't at all related to Sanders' comments regarding his questionable progressive credentials or whatnot; after all, Sanders and OR have made plenty of questionable endorsements in the past. That being said, the fact that the Democratic Party is putting far more resources into a seat like GA-06 as opposed to somewhere like Montana is a testament to how far the party has fallen.

Fallen? It is called being smart, GA-06 is the exact type of seat they are going to have to win in 2018 to regain the house.

God grief, we are ****ed. People don't even know what the playing field looks like.

The part of the post you bolded was merely me lamenting the fact that the Democratic Party has become a party that labels working people "deplorables" and puts the near-entirety of its resources into winning over affluent suburbanites in places like GA-06. If we're indeed "****ed", then it's because the Party leadership has lost touch with - and derides - the natural base of any respectable left-wing party.

This is bull****.

Democrats actually win the "working class", contrary to what some Bernie hacks think, black and brown people are working class too. And Democrats are going after suburbanites, because those places are trending Democratic (Clinton won 24 districts that are GOP-controlled).  Meanwhile, rural areas have been trending right for 15-20 years now. We are in the midst of a political realignment and Democrats are playing with the hand they have been dealt.

[Yank2133]

Regarding suburban districts, this is really what the Democratic Party has to work with right now. The trends that have softened these districts up aren't new and have been developing for a long time now. I can understand why some don't like the idea of loading up the party full of politicians who serve such constituencies, knowing what it might entail, but trying to change course is something no one can control right now, and getting back certain types of districts the party has lost would take years, if it still is even possible.

Further, I might add, just because Democrats would come to more deeply represent suburbia does not necessarily mean its leftwards shift would suffer. People tend to support a wide range of policies as long as the party/politicians can adhere to certain principles.

Yeah, we have already seen this in polling data. College educated whites (people who live in the suburbs) are becoming more progressive.

It would be political malpractice to not try to win this voters over. Also flipping these voters would help Democrats in the future since they are the most likely to show up and vote in the mid-terms.