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Crowd At Mike Flood's Town Hall Chants "Tax the Rich". He Represents NE-1 Which Is An R+9 district (i.imgur.com)

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[–] mutual_ayed 24 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Then run a left leaning independent with messaging packaged for them to agree with. A lot on the right wanted Sanders in 2016. Medicare/Medicaid for all. Tax breaks for working families and raising taxes on corporations and the ultra wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

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messaging packaged for them ro agree to.

This messaging would have to read "I'm gonna put everything back where it belongs: gays back in the closet, blacks back on the plantations, immigrants back in the jungle, and women back in the kitchen."

They hate others, period. They hate whoever their fascist media diet tells them to hate. They would rather burn the country to the ground than to accept that a minority somewhere gets the same privilege that they do. This is the only thing they vote on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

See that was tried last year in Nebraska for a senate seat, and the unpopular Republican still won.

Y’all think it’s easy. That a bunch of white rural folks are gonna run to some magic progressive candidate as long as they aren’t a democrat.

90% of Nebraskans would rather shoot Bernie than vote for him.

[–] mutual_ayed 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

10% approval is a bit low

https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/senator-approval-ratings

Nebraskans hate ALL politicians. However Trump and his policies are losing ground there.

https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-farm-bureau-celebrates-national-agriculture-day-talks-trumps-tariffs/64224024

I don't think there's some magical candidate that'll win in Nebraska. I've been at this long enough to know that. It just seems people have forgot how policies and consistent messaging can win campaigns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I've seen this a lot lately and I don't see how people really think an Independent has good shot at anything right now. We are so insanely and annoyingly divided right now that many feel like they absolutely have to be on one side or the other. The thought of a candidate that's not team red or team blue will make most people shit their pants. At this point a vote for an independent is nothing more than just a vote for whoever is your opposition party.

Of course this could easily change if we didn't have first past the polls voting but heaven forbid we even look down that blasphemous road.