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Kradek posted...

I believe he plans on running against Blankenship in WV, was talking about how he talked to someone in a very rural Republican district at the end of the road who told him that even though they disagreed on every policy the man said he'd be voting for him because he was the first person to actually ask him.

Beto is the only Texas candidate to ever visit every county in the state, which is a fuck ton. He still got smoked in every election.

This whole 'reach out' to people is pretty stupid imo. Yes it's important to a point and to build a following, base, or whatever, but I don't believe it'll win over as many voters as say the next 10 Democratic candidates doing it as well.

Listening to a person speak 1 time and then never again isn't how you win these people over. Trump visits the same states over and over and over. Now he's not visiting every county of every state, but he does visit Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania extremely often. He's not just visiting swing states, he's visiting easy red states. Now granted that could be because of the primaries, but while I do think Dems need to stop allowing Republicans to run unopposed, but they also need to start having every candidate meet with every possible constituent and then their successor do the same, and so on.

Meeting these people often is key and Dems are basically punting because of 'costs'.

Small tangent I know, but my mind kind of fixated on Beto being a fucking failure and then his successor being even worse and how it's annoying that Dems are refusing to run in certain Republican strongholds.

Losing by 40 is better than losing because you chose not to enter.