Republicans seem poised to win the midterm popular vote significantly while barely flipping any seats. The issue wasn’t messaging, the issue was machinery. New York and Florida are the two states where the most flips happened because of favorable maps.
While I’m no fan of early voting—it favors low agency voters—Florida proves you can have EVs while maintaining voter integrity. Shorten the windows, cut it off a week or two before ED and allow tabulators to run those ballots ahead of time.
The main issue is ballot harvesting and no-excuse universal mail in ballots. Republicans need to spend big cultivating harvesting operations in key districts across the country where it’s legal until they have enough power to outlaw it, along with no-excuse mail ins.
Messaging worked. Republicans out messaged, but Democrats out gamed Republicans on the mechanics. We have to play the cards we’re dealt until we can overturn these abuses of “democracy” and we need to play the game better than the Democrats.
We need party leadership willing to acknowledge these inadequacies and invest money on races and candidates without betraying the base.
Remember, a ballot isn’t the same as a vote and the Democrats GOTV machine know this much better than Republicans seem to. Not saying it’s right, but it’s reality and we can’t live in fantasy land.
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