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ClayGuida posted...

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.

For the record, Beto lost by 2.7% to a Republican incumbent who won their first election as a nobody by 15%. That's the closest any Dem has come to winning the Senatorial seat in a very long time. It's weird to use him as a failure or what not to do when no one else has come as close as him to unseating a Republican incumbent.

What is he showed is that the the right idea, he just needed a better campaign overall.

Obama is also famous for his "50 state strategy", where he intentionally visited every state regardless of how much of a Republican stronghold they are, a strategy I've heard various political strategists laud.

The overall point of my post is you find out what people actually care about by actually talking to them and especially in competitive districts within red or purple states the Dem party has ignored that. The Republican party also ignores their populace because we know they just don't care, so that opens potential for converted voters.

Also running candidates even in districts where Dems aren't expected to win can still help down ballot.

As mentioned the Dems are running candidates in 119 of 120 seats in NC. Trump only won that state by 77k, the prediction is that the increased incentive in bringing out Dem voters could flip the state.