@return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world • 4 months agoDemocrats Meddle in Ohio G.O.P. Senate Primary, Pushing Trump’s Choicewww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down127
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minus-square@Dkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•4 months agoStatistically this is always the right play, tho. Trump was an outlier.
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish-1•edit-24 months agoIf a statistical precedent is broken, you need to consider it’s no longer precedent. MAGA is proving the old ways of doing things don’t work. New strategies are needed- like maybe picking better candidates. Which, case in point, why would you then intentionally loose that vital data point if their votes?
minus-square@firebyte@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•edit-24 months agoI was horrified when I first heard about this, though it actually seems to be a good strategy, if risky and ballsy: Prop up an opposing candidate in the primary, who you project (the risky part) will poll worse against you in the general election. It seems to be working… https://youtu.be/K-UG88yoF0M?si=waPJ6WO29tQo2uJb Given that Democrats this time around are out-fundraising the Republicans, it could be a really smart strategy. https://democrats.org/news/rnc-statement-on-the-rncs-desperate-financial-situation/
oh yes, because that never backfired at all.
Statistically this is always the right play, tho. Trump was an outlier.
If a statistical precedent is broken, you need to consider it’s no longer precedent.
MAGA is proving the old ways of doing things don’t work. New strategies are needed- like maybe picking better candidates.
Which, case in point, why would you then intentionally loose that vital data point if their votes?
I was horrified when I first heard about this, though it actually seems to be a good strategy, if risky and ballsy:
Prop up an opposing candidate in the primary, who you project (the risky part) will poll worse against you in the general election.
It seems to be working…
https://youtu.be/K-UG88yoF0M?si=waPJ6WO29tQo2uJb
Given that Democrats this time around are out-fundraising the Republicans, it could be a really smart strategy.
https://democrats.org/news/rnc-statement-on-the-rncs-desperate-financial-situation/