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Anonymous wrote:Biggest question: Does Tim Walz move the needle for independents/moderates?

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the pick, and I'm a Jew.

If anyone cared what the Jews think she would’ve picked Shapiro.

-Jew

I disagree completely. Walz is so similar to Shapiro on Israel, but he doesn't expose us to more ugly antisemitism. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is relieved about that. Shapiro can have his time when things are less charged politically. Ultimately this pick is not any better for antisemitic people than Shapiro.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's put the ageism to rest. Walz is 18 years younger than Trump. Trump is old enough to be his father.

But somehow Walz is a dead ringer for 84 year old Patrick Leahy.

Anonymous wrote:Sad that Dems had to pick someone from a Biden +7 state.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this was a mistake.
Better than Shapiro.
I think she should have gone moderate/ conservative.
Appeal to both aspects of the party, independents and conservative never Trumpers.
3 months from now we'll know.

Nah, that's loser talk. She's already fairly moderate. If she wants to energize her base and increase turnout, this was the smart pick.

I am outside of the DC , though not a swing state the population is very similar to those in swing states.
No she's not moderate by measures outside of the Democratic party or rather a faction of the Democratic party.

If you were alive in the 70s, you know that most current Democratic politicians are more conservative than their predecessors. A lot of them are more conservative than 20th century Republicans.

People urging Democrats to appeal to "moderates" or say that they themselves are "moderates" are really pretty conservative.

+1

Nixon would be labeled a liberal today.

On the other hand, I’ve often read that President Kennedy would be a conservative today and that the Democratic Party is way more liberal today than in the 60s. Everything is relative in terms of the issues people are facing in their own times.

Actually, Nixon and Reagan are progressives by today's standards.

Anonymous wrote:He is so normal and endearing and relatable!

Anonymous wrote:Biggest question: Does Tim Walz move the needle for independents/moderates?

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me exactly of Hillary and Tim Kaine. Why are Dems choosing VP’s that aren’t from swing states?

A month ago you told us that Virginia is a swing state - and Minnesota, too. What changed?

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Didn’t help his neighbors much when Minneapolis was burning. And then Kamala bailed out the rioters.

He is literally the one who deployed the National Guard in Minnesota.

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Anonymous wrote:The finalists need to get on their social media to promote this ticket. Not one has posted yet. They should have had something ready to go.

???

They have all posted.

The democrats antiSemitism means Shapiro was never seriously considered as a VP pick.

Schumer and Bernie are Jewish. So is Harris's husband.

To label democrats as antiSemitic is disingenuous at best.

Exactly, it's not Democrats. It's Progressives, specifically.

Anonymous wrote:Biggest question: Does Tim Walz move the needle for independents/moderates?

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Anonymous wrote:Let's put the ageism to rest. Walz is 18 years younger than Trump. Trump is old enough to be his father.

But somehow Walz is a dead ringer for 84 year old Patrick Leahy.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Coach Walz was too plain / ordinary. Maybe that is the point? Just a regular neighborhood guy.

My DH, a Dem who works in politics, kept saying to me last week that they needed to make this choice as plain, boring, ordinary as possible in order to win. We need to play this one safe.