In hindsight, should Democrats have contested LA-SEN 2016 more fiercely?
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« on: August 17, 2018, 02:03:33 PM »
With hindsight being 20/20, the AL-SEN 2017 outcome being known, and the SCOTUS opening being known, should Democrats have more fiercely contested LA-SEN 2016 and made more of an effort to elect Foster Campbell?
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2018, 02:11:42 PM »
Considering the margin, I doubt that contesting it more fiercely would have made a difference. The political environment was very different in late 2017 than it was in 2016.
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2018, 02:13:10 PM »
Quote from: Elastic WWC Populist Libertarian for Tester/Heller on August 17, 2018, 02:11:42 PM
Considering the margin, I doubt that contesting it more fiercely would have made a difference. The political environment was very different in late 2017 than it was in 2016.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2018, 03:01:59 PM »
Contesting 2014 more fiercely would've been a better bet. Maybe Landrieu could've gotten within single digits at least.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2018, 03:06:50 PM »
Trump wasn’t even president yet, and frankly Dems did contest it. They just got blown out because LA is a heavily Republican state.
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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2018, 03:44:04 PM »
Wouldn't have mattered.
1. Campbell was only an OK candidate.
2. Kennedy fits the state like a glove.
3. Trump just got elected by double digits in LA, and he was yet to be tainted by incumbents disadvantage.
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2018, 04:54:47 PM »
Yes, I wish the democrats had wasted more money there.
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2018, 05:01:34 PM »
I seriously doubt it would have mattered in the end. It's just not a state that you can will yourself a win in. Like Alabama, it's competitiveness is mostly based on the national environment / which party controls the WH, how unpopular the president is and to a degree, candidate quality.

In other words, more money, more volunteers and/or a better candidate wouldn't have changed anything.
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2018, 05:53:18 PM »
No, because the demos in Louisiana aren't like the ones in Georgia (to use the GA SEN-2008 runoff as an example).
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2018, 06:01:47 PM »
The Democratic Party was in such freefall/panic in December 2016 that they could hardly lift their eyes from their own navels to focus on this race.
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