New York’s Democratic Party shows new interest in electing Democrats
New York’s Democratic Party shows new interest in electing Democrats
It was so depressing watching so many campaigns and races snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Felt like the DNC leadership just didn’t really care that much in a lot of winnable races.
In fairness, Democrats got totally fucked by the redistricting done by the Special Master for the 2022 Congress. That guy might have given the Republicans their majority all on his own. They ended up having to redo the map for 2024. The tweaks are very minor, but look to be a lot fairer this time around.
I mean, those maps are a product of Cuomo governing as a republican with mostly republican votes and a blue dog minority and then appointing republican judges to the court for years, so it's part of the pattern of democrats not wanting to actually win. Also, the option to run that map better existed, it's just that the head of the DCCC was more interested in his own prospects than control of the house, so he district shopped, which shuffled everyone downstate into a less favorable district basically, yet another example of the democrats not caring about winning. The DNC is no longer a political party, it's a professional association for center-right politicians interested in advancing their own careers short term.