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Like if we're talking about (future) Senators that annoy me more than Manchin, I'd say Hickenlooper is a good example. Manchin is the only Democrat who can hold that seat. Colorado could elect someone better than Hickenlooper but he's already cleared out a bunch of the primary field there.

Basically, my philosophy is "try to run the person as left as you can provided they can win." Obviously that's tricky because there will always be disagreement about how far you can go in any given race but I'd like to think that places like WV and OH can be recognized as places that are basically lost and only held by the power of incumbency and local credibility built up before they were lost. And that somewhere like CO against Gardner you could run someone to the left of Hickenlooper and still win easily. Maybe not as big but you still wouldn't be sweating it.

Like yeah, there are counter-arguments like being able to win big means you can allocate resources in a more focused way or concern that you're inviting 2016 v2 on yourself and those are valid but I also think it's possible to identify seats that are bluer than the representative holding the seat. Those are the people who should be primaried, not the ones who are holding red seats against all sense. Look at deep blue seats for primary challenges first. AOC is kind of the best case scenario for this.
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