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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

This is why you lose elections. People care about the economy, jobs, and health care.

Most people are not as far up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as you and I and everyone else here. They don't give a fuck about impeachment (most are too dim to even understand it). They don't care about Ukraine. They don't care about Epstein, or Schiff, or Nadler. They see the thing as a giant waste of time.

Lawyers are interested in this stuff because it's our area. Look up how many lawyers there are in the country.

That ad will mobilize people. People already in your pocket. People of no consequence in an electoral college contest.

Jesus Christ... It's amazing how clueless people can be that they'd think that ad is going to be a game changer. All that will do is enflame people already annoyed with politicians bickering and doing nothing.

Here is wisdom: Counter his economic argument, or risk losing what ought to be easily winnable. Shut the fuck up about impeachment. Like Nancy told you to. And hide Schiff and Nadler in a closet for the next ten months. They're walking billboards for Trump.

The Gov of Michigan wasn't great last nite (a bit muddled), but she was on the right track. Talk about what you'll do for people. And don't stop talking about it. Getting in the mud with Trump is wrestling a pig who has so far and probably will continue to beat the fuck out of you in that arena. It's where he wants to go. Why the fuck would you go there? How stupid can the people running that ad possibly be?

It's like you want to make people understand your anger and share it more than you want to win. They don't. And they get annoyed by preachy, disconnected people running ads like that telling them what to think and taking shots at an opponent while saying nothing about jobs, the economy, or health care.

I know this is a rant, but one last point: Health care! Health care! Health care! Slam him with that. And slam him with his comments about rolling back entitlements. And in a very surgical manner, aim ads about abortion, showing that dumbass speaking a pro life rally, in the Philly suburbs, where the husbands are all voting Trump, but the wives might feel affluent enough to vote on non-economic bases.

I don't mean to hit you again, but in a race where we are already hearing "if it ain't Bernie I ain't voting (or voting 3rd party)" this stuff might keep people pulling the correct lever.