1. NO!!!

This race was lost in the same way ALL the down-ballot races that lacked VERY high college educ &/or diversity rates (AZ + CO are neg partisanship realigners- I always told you those were locks, but ME was about Indies ballot splitting) & they did there but DIDN'T in NC
2. and BC the wrong damn campaign strategy was run in BOTH ME & NC, they both came up short. What should have happened? A nationalized messaging strategy that tied Collins/Tillis to Trump-like an albatross & made the decision to vote for Collins/Trump tied to supporting Trump.
3. As I tried in vain to impress upon these two campaigns- the @DCCC (via @DNC @DNCWarRoom) is just plain WRONG about its electioneering approach. In 2018, the party underperformed their potential wave size by not understanding their coalitional realignments well enough
4. college educ white voters are dealigning from the right side of the spectrum and realigning on the left side. But its imp to understand this is largely driven by generational replacement, so when we look at these massive gains in the 'burbs, again its due to Millennials (now
5. 40!) and Zoomers plus the diversification of the 'burbs as middle-class non-whites left gentrifying cities and high-income whites moved back into gentrifying cities. Though some analysts, like Trump, are frozen in time w massively white 'burbs, most of the burbs are richly
6. diverse. The ex-burbs are predominately white (and ex-bubs exist precisely bc the 'burbs are diverse). They were making their way leftward before Trump came along, bc the GOP was already moving towards anti-intellectualism, populism, nativism (which is how Trump came to be).
7. So, full circle, What killed Cunningham was a campaign that was not focused on turnout of D coalition voters- ensuring that massive turnout could have overwhelmed the GOP. Instead, we really see a 3rd time's charm of the Dem's NC-9 flops. I'm sure when I get my hands on that
8. voter file, we'll see that underperformance on turnout of lower propensity Ds killed him. This DIDN'T HAPPEN in Biden's race in the prez. And think about that. In that contest- those races, PA, MI, WI, the state p[arty's there went rogue and paid for their own door canvassing
9. canvassing program and that's what saved those states. We've learned a ton from these surge voters. The congressional underperformance relative to the presidential outcome is largely driven by the decision to suspend permanently the door knocking programs and told candidates
10. they were not allowed to run field. As of Labor Day, no formal field programs for either Biden or the Dem congressional races was in place- prompting me to raise it as an issue during filming of my show in TX (my awesome TX friends had to calm me down! Right @JTiloveTX?!
11. The state leg candidates were also prohibited from using party funds for field, so few if any likely used any field. I will be collecting data on this, but it is my suspicion that when we need to look at why do we see such a sharp decline, its bc no field!! Meanwhile the GOP
12. ran as normal campaigns do, compounding the issue & just like that- you get knocked out of the reapportionment & redistricting cycle, even though you had a good chance of picking up perhaps 4 state houses, bc you didn't run a field program. To say its frustrating is a massive
13. understatement. And its compounded by subpar messaging, which didn't nationalize these races, didn't tie these Rs to Trump to increase interest in them to low-interest voters & increase their salience which is what the GOP does when they tie the D to Pelosi, or more recently,
14. to The Squad, so that R voters are less likely to leave races blank in states that lack straight-ticket voting & are more likely to vote someone out like Collins, who could only win if Biden voters voted Collins. That the DSCC didnt make that campaign a referendum on
15. Collins and her failure to do anything to keep Trump in check is utter incompetence. And I'll leave you with this- the same people want to come drive the strategy for the GA Senate run-offs. Oh, hell no!

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