HOW come ONLY Democrat Voters vote out AIPAC Politicians and NOT America First Republican Voters?
HOW come ONLY Democrat Voters vote out AIPAC Politicians and NOT America First Republican Voters?
Its independents who caucus with Democrats voting out APAIC candidates, not “capitol D” Democrats voting out APAIC candidates. Capitol D Democrats took that “One Way Street” in this race. Its really important to not confuse insurgent progressives and the candidates they support with “Democrats” writ large.
And the reason this is happening, is because the progressive movement is coming home from its time wandering in the wilderness. The big D Democrats have put most of their effort in the previous 10 years trying to not be a party of the working class, to be a real left-wing, socialist party, in-spite of the fact that thats where their base was going. It goes back to Hillary’s failure in '16, and consolidation of control of the party by the centrists/ blue dogs (which has only resulted in continued L, after L, after L). Progressives who caucus with Democrats failed to take over the party in 2016 and get their priorities centered, and the DNC has been a party of failure ever since.
At the same time in 2016, the outsider movement, MAGA, they won their fight for the soul of the R party. Their ideology became centered and it resorted in them holding the high hand for a decade. However, thats changing, and MAGA is about to experience their time wandering the wilderness. Independents who caucus with Republicans are finding themselves outside when it comes to issues of Israel, Iran, The Epstein files, their “MAGA” vision.
RW independent voters aren’t engaged to support R’s just for being R’s, just like LW independent voters aren’t supportive of D’s just for being D’s. And right now, there isn’t much for the RW independent voter to vote for, so they don’t show up.
The real story last night wasn’t actually this race. It was how badly Republicans got utterly ratioed in total votes cast relative to Democrats. I think the number ended up being 2:1? Which is insane. People just didn’t show up to vote for R’s like they showed up to vote for D’s.
Chuck Schumer dips his glasses in wrath.
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With 92% of votes in early Wednesday morning, Rabb had secured 44.3% of the vote compared to 24.1% for Stanford and 29.5% for a third candidate, Sharif Street.
Guys, Chris Rabb has been the incumbent for the 200th district since 2017 – with two-year terms. The 200th is in one of the most progressive places in America. As noted, Stanford wasn’t even a distant second place; that was “a third candidate” (read: literally the fucking party chair until last year) Sharif Street who’s way more politically relevant than Stanford.
This is good, but Stanford’s loss is not even remotely an upset. (Edit: If anything, Stanford likely buoyed Rabb’s chances by splitting the vote away from Street.) There are likely to be real, impressive upsets this year; this is just business as usual.
Edit 2: Okay, I was half-right, half-wrong. According to Time, progressives considered this little-noted race a focus, but also as noted, Stanford pretty much killed Street’s chances by splitting the vote. Street was the threat here to the extent one existed.
Two more moderate candidates, state senator Sharif Street and pediatric surgeon Ala Stanford, split votes and struggled to catch fire. Street’s loss was particularly revealing, given he’s the sort of candidate that may have cruised to higher office just a few years ago. The son of former Philadelphia Mayor John Street, Street had a long list of labor and local political endorsements, including Mayor Cherelle Parker. He formerly led the Pennsylvania state party—a designation that may have hurt more than it helped as the state flipped back to President Donald Trump in 2024. Few national moderates lined up behind him, save for New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker.
Framing this as a victory over Stanford and then off-handedly mentioning Street as “a third candidate” (and never anywhere else) seems completely dishonest.
