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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think a party can win by constantly demeaning and talking down to anyone who disagrees even the slightest bit with the party taking points. Purity tests don't work for either party. Small, incremental wins that makes people's lives better...pretty simple.[/quote]

It seems to work pretty well for Republicans, which is interesting.[/quote]

Here’s the thing - there are people who always vote R, and people who always vote D. Nothing is going to change that.

It’s the people who don’t vote or could go either way. I personally don’t think demeaning that got them. I just think it was the reality of school closures. The Ds didn’t offer something similar to break the tie - they were out of touch with how big of an issue the school closures were. [/quote]
Anecdotally, all of my friends who live in Virginia have school-age kids, and they were uniformly pissed off about NoVa schools' general resistance to re-opening. None of them are political radicals, of either stripe. And they blamed the party in power, not surprisingly.

American elections are generally decided by suburban voters. And Democrats in places like Virginia seem to have gone out of their way to annoy and alienate that demographic. It's just bizarre. I knew McAuliffe was a dead man walking after his comment about how parents shouldn't have a say in their kids' education. [/quote]

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