POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[ReluctantSamurai]

And if one really thinks that Pelosi hasn't been effective at her job one should really take a look at her record because there's some really important things there.

I would agree with that. I wasn't critiquing her entire career. I specifically mentioned the last two years. So are the Dems that helpless that she can't influence the Senate, or is she simply coasting into the twilight of her career? Given the extreme polarization of our Congress, I understand it's difficult to get anything done these days, which is a gross understatement, IMHO. My point is, if the GOP has such a tight grip on nearly every aspect of our government, you might want to get a wee bit more active in doing things to loosen that. I also realize that it's up to the American people to vote the more corrupt Republicans (and Dems) out of office, and if that can't be done, then we move even further towards an authoritarian state.

This probably doesn't lend itself to party unity:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dccc-...b01ebeef0ec3ae

One Democratic strategist said that while it’s understandable the DCCC wants to protect its incumbents, it was a bad idea to blacklist firms that work with challengers. There are only a limited number of races, and the party already tends to work with the established firms.

Rebecca Katz, a longtime adviser for progressive Democrats, worried that the move would make the already difficult path for primary challengers that much rockier.

“If there’s a candidate who you know has the opportunity to go far and inspire, but you as a consultant think it will doom your business, you’re going to think twice,” Katz said, before declaring that it would not deter her.

The DCCC is “doing this to send a message. And I think the message sucks,” she added.

Faced with an insurgency several years earlier than Democrats, however, national Republicans took similarly dramatic steps to punish those who would aid primary challengers. In 2013, the National Republican Senatorial Committee barred the firm Jamestown Associates from receiving any NRSC contracts, after Jamestown consulted for the Senate Conservatives Fund, which tried to oust Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).

A national Republican strategist applauded his Democratic counterparts for learning from the GOP’s difficulties with an aggressive anti-establishment wing.

“Republicans spent three cycles figuring this out. Democrats have the benefit of seeing what we eventually figured out,” the strategist said. “This might help them defeat the lunacy faster.”

Protecting the status quo, IMHO. And Pelosi gave her unwavering endorsement to this policy.

On the flip side, it will be informative to see how strenuously she supports this:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...-change-345503