Just Five?
This morning, Jennifer Rubin wrote the five dumbest reasons Republicans give for supporting Trump.
Do you want to know the hardest part of writing that? Narrowing it down to five.
It boils down to law and order, pandemic over, great economy, Joe is a socialist, and “life.” All five of those make me gag. Trump stood on the White House lawn, breaking the law, hollering that he’s law and order.
The pandemic is worse than ever, what economy?, Joe is hardly even a Democrat, and life means only fetuses.
There is no convincing the other side. None. So stop it. Don’t even try.
There’s an interesting and very nerdy article in Salon this week about political moneyball. If you didn’t see the movie Moneyball, you need to. Baseball is a lot like politics. The theory is that you should put your money not on big races where your $25 won’t really matter but on races that can change the perimeters of the political spectrum.
For three election cycles, I have begged for your money to help flip Fort Bend County, the largest suburban county in Texas. Once we flip Fort Bend, we can flip Texas, I argued. And once we flip Texas, there will never be another Republican in the White House. Hillary carried Fort Bend in 2016 and in 2018, every Democrat on the ballot won. With your help, we did it.
So, now we need to head to Dallas. The Salon Moneyball article argues just that. If you click right here and look at the candidate list on the top right, those are the ones you need to be betting on. You can run a Google search on the candidate you like best to find out where to send them $10. And then watch election night to see if you won your bet.
What a contrast! Almost all women, a lot of whom are of color, v. a bunch of old white guys. It’s hilarious!
1Ms. JJ based on your calculations and most excellent headline: Just Five? We’ll take five and double your recommendation to $20 each for Akilah Bacy, Brandy Chambers, Sarah DeMerchant, Sharon Hirsch, and Lorenzo Sanchez. The action is in the House, and since NV has only to rid itself of covidiot Mark Amodei, our House card is open.
Not to say we’ve lost focus on regaining the Senate. Have taken long shots on ridding the nation of Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey. Our safer bets there are with Mark Kelly (AZ), Hickenlooper (CO) and a hedge bet with MJ Hegar (TX).
2And while trying to win new seats, hold onto the 2018 gains!
3Dear Miss Juanita,
Twenty-five dollars to Mr. Sanchez.
4Excellent choice.
5Please focus on the Dallas races! The races in the Houston area have plenty of money.
6Thank you. That list is just what I wanted.
7Ok, I’m taking your comment, jj, on Mr Sanchez and making an out of TX donation (just did).
8Now I’m going to comment on the just 5 reasons, specifically Trumpfs war on dem cities and mayors, governors.
Update and thoughts on Portland and Kenosha since they appear to be his current campaign focus.
He’s headed for Kenosha to really stir things up and get some photo opps probably w/his local armed militia. Ms McEnany for Trumpf was basically supporting a punk with an illegal assault rifle for murdering 2 people. At the same time Trumpfs using the death of an armed militiaman in Portland as campaign fodder. Make no mistake, the punk kid in Portland also had an illegal gun, so in my book he needs to be prosecuted. But also, let’s not forget that 600 armed Trumpf…rs were literally barreling thru protesters in their big trucks using bear spray and paintball guns on bystanders. News is the punk that shot the armed Trumpf militiaman was in the process of being maced by the “victim”. No more an excuse than the punk murderer in Kenosha. But this is the civil war Trumpf wants and of course he’s going to take sides. Things can only get a lot worse.
Moneyball? Never too late to learn. It works!
The Republicans have been playing Moneyball since they got their Powell Memo blueprint/marching orders on how to destroy Liberalism and Democracy… by controlling the Courts, Education and the Media, all the way down to the small town levels. Yup even many of the local PTA has been radicalized.
Remember Bush was also exposed for firing, replacing and rigging goverment agency’s, courts, etc. with Liberty U. graduates.
“The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto)
9Though Powell’s memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades.”
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
This is the very reason that I have been focused on Tarrant County (read Fort Worth) for the last year. The ladies at Tarrant Together are doing an amazing job. If Tarrant County flips, then Trump is history along with the rest of the Repubs.
10Yes Moneyball! Glad to see we’re pulling out all the stops to win. Thank you JJ and everyone for your tireless dedication and effort do you make a world a better place! I apologize for my cynicism As I get overwhelmed sometimes by all the chaos.
11We must keep the House at all costs and expend energy on whatever Dem candidates are most likely to unseat the Rethugs. If we don’t, even if Biden wins, he’s unlikely to make enough meaningful change.
12I saw Moneyball. It was capital T terrific!! And I got the point! And I’m not a rocket scientist!
13Nancy Yates: as a refugee from Tarrant County who has been gone for 40 years now, my question is who/where do you think the money would be best spent? The flipthetxhouse.com link shows who narrowly lost and by how much. But if you are on the scene, you probably have other info that might be relevant.
So what TC recommendations would you make?
14The Surly Professor: Here: https://tarrant-together.com/
They are targeting every new resident and getting them registered and voting. The most “on the ground” effort I know of that is flipping this county.
Thanks for asking.
Nancy
15I did 5 at $50 each, and also Tarrant Together for the cherry on top. If I can’t bring myself to be social and help with the outreach myself, at least I still have money, knock on wood.
16On Saturday, I put a lot of money down on the Senate, some favorites and some long shots as well as a couple of House races. Thanks to your list, I’m happy to spend some more to flip Texas.
17Donated to Hirsch, Sanchez, Chambers, Cattanach and Whitfield. Thanks for the link, Juanita.
18I loved “Moneyball”.