Is questioning electability racism? Texas’ tense Dem primary comes to a head.

https://misryoum.com/us/politics/is-questioning-electability-racism-texas-tense-dem-primary/

DALLAS — James Talarico is fond of saying that the “closest thing we have to the Kingdom of Heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy.” But Texas’ battle royale of a Democratic Senate primary feels far from heaven. Talarico, a white...

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"The current #UK #economiccrisis is a dual one of crumbling #publicservices and #stagnantgrowth, and a key mistake the #Labourgovernment is making is keeping #taxes too low. But is their reluctance to raise taxes primarily due to a hunger for #economicrespectability? It seems to me it is more about a hunger for #electability, and thinking (incorrectly in my view [1]) that higher taxes will lose them #votes because it will add to the current #costoflivingcrisis."

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-following-path-of-last-labour.html?m=1

#UKpol

Big crowds doesn't mean electorally popular | @destiny

#AOC #BernieSanders #Crowdsize #Electability #Destiny

There is good reason to think the #Republicans can lose in 2024, and that some other candidate, cough #Youngkin cough, would be more electable. Reasonable people are baffled Republicans won't forsake #Trump.

But #electability isn't a concern for #Repubican primary voters, who believe that Joe Biden is #demented and keeps falling down, and believe the #BigLie that Biden already lost to Trump in 2020.

Hat tip to #PodSaveAmerica for giving me new ways to think about this.

@marcelias How about a lifetime ban on electability for felons, who incite, set on foot & engage in insurrection/ rebellion?

#DefendAmerica #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #VotingRights #Electability #Insurrection #DefraudingAmerica #ConspiracyAgainstRights #ConspiracyAgainstTheUS #DisqualifyALLRebels

"a transition, from the #Biden vision of #electability, to a Sanders vision, an #antiestablishment vision...
from thinking that the candidate has to appeal to moderate republicans, to embracing the Sanders framework of motivating a coalition cross section of voters across races and generations.

And doing that, it takes Bernie Sanders from being the least electable candidate, to the only one who can build that kind of coalition."

https://pca.st/5wga79gd#t=25m48s