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Matthew Yglesias
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There's a tendency to misread this fact pattern — many of the top analytics people in the Democratic Party (not just Shor, he just tweets more) are making an *admission against interest* that there are sharp limits to what their paid messaging can achieve.
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Michael Paarlberg
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Shor’s gimmick is to say I have the secret to winning if only the Democrats would listen to me, as if the Harris campaign didn’t give him $700 million last year to run their messaging exactly as he wanted and still lost nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opi
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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
It would be very convenient for both progressive activists *and* Dem-aligned consultants if it were true that "lots of money plus great optimized ads" could win you campaigns, because then the activists could get the policy they want and the consultants could get rich.
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mamma says!
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The lesson that the Democrats should learn is that, when the riptide of politics (e.g., immigration, inflation, crime, trans issues, etc.) are taking you out to sea, in the short-term you should swim with the current instead of trying to exhaust yourself trying to fight it,
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Throatwarbler T Mangrove
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I was just reading a Trump rant about Juan Merchan's daughter being paid "millions of dollars" by Democrats, then I see this bullshit from a leftist professor who worked with Bernie Sanders Horseshoe, anyone?
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Chris Wilsher
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There was no problem with Dem messaging. Everybody knew Trump was a convicted felon with a bunch more indictments against him It's just that 77 million Americans decided to vote for him and now he's behaving just the way you'd expect a convicted felon to act.
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