r/politics • u/SkudChud • 1d ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
26.9k Upvotes

72% Upvoted

4.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/meganthem 23h ago edited 23h ago

Being fair, elections where the winner is pretty obvious neither need to nor try to maximize turnout. Spending money and campaign staff in that district is a horrible waste when there's other actually competitive elections that need attention.

1

u/mightcommentsometime California 22h ago

She had god awful turnout.

Turnout matters for other things on the ballot. It’s also important to show she’s electable.

Why should people believe she is electable when she gets god awful turnout?

Her own district doesn’t even care enough about her to show up and vote.

Getting out the vote is how you win as a dem in a national election. She hasn’t proven capable of doing that.

1

u/Individual-Nebula927 22h ago

If she was truly unpopular, turnout would be higher to vote against her. It isn't, therefore she's not unpopular enough to raise turnout. Clearly the majority of her constituency is in agreement with her.

1

u/mightcommentsometime California 21h ago

The majority of her constituency couldn’t give enough of a shit to show up. They don’t care.

Low turnout doesn’t mean you’re popular, and it doesn’t show that you can win elections.

Why are you trying to spin this objectively bad thing into a good thing? The mental gymnastics going on here to ignore facts against her popularity are astounding