Elections are won in the primaries

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It's not a republican, its a progressive candidate running in the republican primary ... because whoever wins the republican primary is virtually guaranteed to win the general election.Gerrymandering shifts the actual election to the primary, so to beat the nasty republicans you have to run in their primary ... and get all the democrat/liberal/progressive/independent/etc people in the district to register republican and vote in the primary for the faux republican candidate.Sheesh.

Indeed. I've talked to some democrat party people about it but interest seems low. Maybe after they lose in 2018 and Bannon wins and things get worse they might start thinking.Enjoy

Both Texas and RI are more like the middle situation, gerrymandered to provide a majority in every district. Texas is a lost cause in my book, I'm looking at states that are heavily gerrymandered so that a minority wins, the right hand situation. Like North Carolina and Michigan.An independent commission charged with creating districts so that representatives reflected the diversity of the population would make it so there would be two yellow districts and three green districts, as any other alternative favors one party over the other disproportionately to the population.Enjoy

So there is hope. And another place to try Faux Republican Progressive candidates ...But my personal opinion is that districts need to be abolished altogether and a different metric used to select representatives, one that will reflect the diversity of the population, for instance one that results in half women and half men, one that reflects minorities in proportion to their population, one that reflects different economic levels.Perhaps by lottery ... with 3 year term, 1/3rd chosen every year.EnjoyEdited by RAZD, : .

Sorry, no, that is not the strategy. The strategy is to elect a progressive to the house by winning the republican primary. The progressive would side with the democrats not the republicans.How else do you expect to win back a majority in the house?Enjoy

Curious how people are telling me what I mean, especially when it isn't true.The idea is to elect a progressive. Period. The idea is that the election essentially takes place in the primary because of gerrymandering -- so bring your candidate to the republican primary and run against one or more (the more the merrier) republicans.Have everyone in the district vote in the republican primary. Yes there are more republican voters than liberal/progressive voters because of gerrymandering, but IF you can take some votes from the republican OR the republican ticket is split THEN a progressive/liberal could win the primary ... and then you have one or two democrat/progressive/liberal candidates in the general election.Winning the republican primary doesn't make you a republican.It is a simple plot to subvert the gerrymandered districting by taking the election to the primary.Sadly I am astounded that people I regard as above average intelligence can't see beyond party labels ...Enjoy

So the answer is to curl up on your couch and wish republicans would all die?Or do you try to do something about it, try to change the dialogue.Talk radio will only talk to the radio heads, not the general public, the people who are tired of congress (low approval rating) and want some progress.What is your solution or do you just give up.Enjoy

By doing it in enough districts that the democrats get a majority. Still not the plan.Enjoy

Again you are blinding yourself, the plan is to elect someone not-a-republican in the republican primary. I would call that person a progressive republican for the purpose of the primary. Once you have that then, either that person wins the general or a democrat wins the general. In either case you then have not-a-republican in the house.Enjoy

In the republican primary for a progressive candidate running against the republicans in the primary where the district is gerrymandered to essentially guarantee the republican candidate picked in the primary will win the general election.Enjoy

wrong again.Enjoy

and still wrong.This is getting entertaining, seeing how wrong you can be over a very simple concept.Enjoy

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I was just extending what you said in Message 81Enjoy