I don't mean electability as broad appeal to voters such that a person can win an election. That is being done to death and not worthy of a thread.
More to the point that this will be the first election in decades where the RNC will not be covered by a consent decree that has kept them from certain activities to suppress and intimidate voters under the pretext of stopping fraud.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...-decree-328995
So the question is this: Which candidate is best suited to have both the nerve and ability to run a campaign that can effectively combat these sorts of intimidation efforts in real time? Keep in mind in this day that it would also be an issue with Latino voters, who weren't the same in numbers or sensitivity to legal coercion thirty years ago. Parking an ICE van near a polling place would unnerve a citizen aware of their casualness with the law.
My take is that the candidates that prize civility will be mostly useless in this regard. Trying to "rise above" on election day is naive when someone being intimidated away from the polls is irreversible. Bernie has strong campaign enthusiasm. Bloomberg has money to hire a virtual army of observers. More important is the tone and communicating a message that the polls may be scary but you will be safe.
Election day itself could get ugly, but unless the candidate grasps that ugly is preferable to capitulation, that candidate is in trouble.
More to the point that this will be the first election in decades where the RNC will not be covered by a consent decree that has kept them from certain activities to suppress and intimidate voters under the pretext of stopping fraud.
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The decree, which dated to 1982, arose from a Democratic National Committee lawsuit charging the RNC with seeking to discourage African-Americans from voting through targeted mailings warning about penalties for violating election laws and by posting armed, off-duty law enforcement officers at the polls in minority neighborhoods. |
So the question is this: Which candidate is best suited to have both the nerve and ability to run a campaign that can effectively combat these sorts of intimidation efforts in real time? Keep in mind in this day that it would also be an issue with Latino voters, who weren't the same in numbers or sensitivity to legal coercion thirty years ago. Parking an ICE van near a polling place would unnerve a citizen aware of their casualness with the law.
My take is that the candidates that prize civility will be mostly useless in this regard. Trying to "rise above" on election day is naive when someone being intimidated away from the polls is irreversible. Bernie has strong campaign enthusiasm. Bloomberg has money to hire a virtual army of observers. More important is the tone and communicating a message that the polls may be scary but you will be safe.
Election day itself could get ugly, but unless the candidate grasps that ugly is preferable to capitulation, that candidate is in trouble.
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