• That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    Democrats: “Let’s ignore left wing and independant voters. We’ll chase after right wing voters instead.”

    Right wing voters vote entirely for Republicans. Left wing and independant voters feel abandoned and dont vote.

    Democrats: "I don’t understand how we could have lost. Let’s continue to ignore left wing and independant voters. We’ll have to double down on our efforts to get right wing voters.

    Right wing voters continued to vote entirely for Republicans. Left wing and independant voters feel abandoned and dont vote.

    Democrats: “What the hell happened? We lost yet again? I thought doubling down on the same strategy would have worked. Welp, we have no choice now but to triple down on the same strategy we keep losing with.”

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      No, Democrats has to attract voters with a centrist view because these are the largest block. Note that in Germany and Romania the centrist candidate won. Most people do not have extremist views.

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        WTF are you smoking? Most Latin american elections are more politically comparable to the US than Germany and Romania.

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          Are you saying that El Salvador resembles the US more than Germany or Romania?

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        Assuming they are speaking from an American perspective: left is just normal liberal everywhere else, aka center to center right.

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        Romanians don’t vote in US elections. What’s your actual evidence that appealing to ‘centrists’ would get the Democrats for swing state votes?

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          Germany and Romania shows that people tend to have moderate rather than extreme views.

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            I repeat:

            Romanians (and Germans) don’t vote in US elections. What’s your actual evidence that appealing to ‘centrists’ would get the Democrats swing state votes?