we can tell 2016 was a one-off, and that “I’m A More Competent Republican” is a strategy not doomed to miserable, ignominious failure, because Bredesen, McCaskill, and Heitkamp employed it to such great success in 2018.

weird how your boy buttigeig isn’t getting any traction, huh. and after he went to all that effort to be a moderate on vaccination, too.

The thing is, most people are convinced the system is rigged. They figure the winners are pre-determined and there are so many people conspiring to fuck them over that going to the voting booth barely even matters.

Expecting the base of the Democratic party (black women) to vote like the base of the Republican party (white men) is reason 1-99 of why the Democrats actually lose. Because the base of the Democratic party actually cares about shit like policy and agendas and character and what moves the country and the cause of…

Don’t worry now not is it only un-greyed, it's Staff highlighted!

Maybe, and stick with me here, sometimes candidates lose because of their flaws and not because of people impolitely pointing out their flaws.

I like how Albert literally quotes an argument just like this from an actual commenter on another article and you refer to this as a “strawman argument.”

Thank you for this good take.

Fucking hell, man, the man’s brain being mush is an important fucking issue. It’s not “free ammo” for Trump. It’s incredibly germane to the question of whether he should be the nominee and/or the president. It’s a much bigger difference between him and the candidates with working brains than their healthcare proposals…

The idea that shit-talking a candidate during a primary harms them in the general was probably never very true, and most assuredly isn’t true at all now. The overwhelming majority of people in this country know who they will vote for next November based solely on the letter by their name. Modern American elections are…

(Which is to say, off to the grays with you.)

There’s a nice harmony between the content of this comment and the speed with which you posted it, in that they both demonstrate incontrovertibly that you couldn’t be bothered to actually read the article.

THERE ARE 20 DEMOCRATS RUNNING AGAINST EACH OTHER.

again: this is not helpful advice for a primary when they are all running for the democratic nomination and the *entire purpose* of the primary is to vet and decide on the best one, however you define that.

“We take only the finest, most luxuriant Corinthian glass and break it using an artisinal process known only to a lost enclave of indigenous Amazonian tribesmen and recently discovered by a Los Santos crafter, presenting this to you as the ultimate symbol of broken glass luxury.” 

How does one bring up Biden’s memory and acuity, if not noting that he just forgot what he said two minutes ago?

What bother ways of bringing that up are appropriate to you? Why should they treat him with kid gloves on the debate stage of all places?

biden is losing his mind, friend. you’re going to have to deal with it eventually.

jon ossoff lost by more than someone who, as far as anyone can tell, literally did not exist.