@sambbenson Just don't see dems winning this district. Median income is too high.
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Polling in AZ-05 is all over the place
Club for Growth PAC (Pulse) | June 29-July 1
Mark Lamb: 61%
Daniel Keenan: 27%
Keenan internal (Remington) | July 5-7
Mark Lamb: 40%
Daniel Keenan: 42%
POLITICO@politico
A Trump-backed Arizona candidate faces tough House primary after sex scandals dlvr.it/TTZ7N8
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@RLangford18 @Libdude4054 @mattyglesias Three of the four vote for democrats and it still doesn't work. The median age of voters is 52 and you want to ignore them.
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@Libdude4054 @mattyglesias Forget the above 50 white non-college educated evangelical voter. They ain't ever gonna vote for Dem.
Form an alliance with blue collar unionized worker, young service workers, DSA, and LGBTQ and win.
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Notable but not *so* surprising Platner was actually conservative on guns, and some of the "old Platner Reddit post" controversies were indicate of moderate-to-conservative views on race and gender.
alex bronzini-vender@alexbronzini
This is pretty remarkable
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@tphuang @teortaxesTex But can they even get access to that supply chain or will Huawei get the mountain share of orders.
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@teortaxesTex Yes my first thought too, looks like same supply chain used by others
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> 3D vertical stacking to achieve sub-micron interconnect
> To be used in TY64 SuperNode & HS128 SuperCluster
as Zephyr says, hard to believe
this looks like a fast-following on Huawei's press releases
tphuang@tphuang
东方算芯's DF1000 unveiled in Shanghai uses 14nm process but delivers 520 TFLOPS BF16 compute. Uses DRAM-Logic wafer-level hybrid bonding 3D vertical stacking to achieve sub-micron interconnect & 6.4 TB/s of memory bandwidth & 900 GB/s scale-up bandwidth. To be used in TY64 SuperNode & HS128 SuperCluster. It's quite interesting what could be done even w/ 14nm process when using advanced hybrid bonding/3D stacking tech.
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@largedeaner @JasonZParker @mattyglesias The fuck is this nonsense. Progressives were supporting a blackwater mercenary.
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He's arguing against "vetting " because he flunked vetting.
Nate Blouin@NateForUtah
You're going to start hearing a lot about how "vetted" a candidate is and it's becoming generally understood to mean that they're approved by the establishment and nothing more.
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@Pbornsch @mattyglesias @R3snbleSciety They are also more economically conservative. Muslim resturant owner politics are very real. There is a reason why trump won a lot of Muslim voters.
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@mattyglesias @R3snbleSciety Wow, U.S. Muslims are perhaps more socially liberal than I thought. 45% don’t think homosexuality should be discouraged. 52% don’t think social acceptance of trans people has been a change for the worse.
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This is too meta for me.
People should vote for El-Sayed if they want to.
I don’t really agree with him on the issues and leftists are on average significantly worse electorally performers so my advice would be to vote for Stevens.
Shadi Hamid@shadihamid
With all due respect to @mattyglesias, the last few weeks have suggested to me that the center-left cares more about beating down the left than they do about beating Trump. We've seen the re-introduction of "woke" tropes by the Democratic establishment, weaponized against Abdul El-Sayed to suggest he's some kind of mysogonist, without any actual evidence. To accuse a Muslim man of misogyny is a classic trope, of course. If I was someone who cared about the future of the Democratic Party and it's ability to compete with the GOP, I'd be more enthusiastic about people like Abdul and Zohran, who model a positive "clean-living" masculinity. I'd be be enthusiastic about their ability to turn out young voters who are otherwise disaffected by a party that doesn't seem to want to listen to them. They're also practicing Muslims who respect the role of religion in public life, something we need more of in an overly secularized Democratic Party. This doesn't mean that everyone has to like Abdul or want him to win. Even if you want him to lose, you should see that he has something genuinely positive to offer to the Democratic Party. When the left wants to beat establishment candidates, it's called "factionalism." When the establishment wants to beat the left, it's not called that. It's just normal and unaccounted for. Take @neeratanden for example. Her feed is mostly about her disdain for the left. I don't see how this is constructive. And those of us who are not part of the Democratic establishment shouldn't concede too much ground on these points. I worry, though, that we have.
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@AhmayNake @growthyes22 @mattyglesias @PodSaveAmerica Dumb moron like you thinks that Harris or Walz were moderate. No democrat of note ever volunteered for the VP job.
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@growthyes22 @mattyglesias @PodSaveAmerica Shapiro actively sabotaged the party’s Presidential candidate.
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The whining about featuring Obama praising Stevens in an ad is funny to those of us who remember when AES was receiving flattering comparisons to Obama which he rejected out of hand on the grounds that Obama is bad.
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@waves_falls @notbetterthan1 @XiPersisted @TNG512 @mattyglesias @dilanesper No they are more conservative than white conservatives on lgbt issues.
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@notbetterthan1 @XiPersisted @TNG512 @mattyglesias @dilanesper This one of the statements that sounds like it’s making a point while being both incorrect and banal in its meaning. You’re measuring an entire racial group against one political persuasion of another racial group.
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I guess it’s not “offensive” but what is the plan to win electoral majorities once the Black moderates have been purged from the Democratic Party?
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@gami4u @perrymetzger @SwannMarcus89 New Deal, Civil rights and most amendments were passed through that smoke filled room.
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@perrymetzger @SwannMarcus89 I don't necessarily agree cos it led to conformity and jobs-for-the-boys type agreements. Would not allow insurgent movements like the Tea Party, MAGA, or even whatever the Dem left are doing now.
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People are going to say Platner lost because of the rape allegation but that is not true
He was always going to lose because people with jobs don't pay attention to elections until it's time for the general. Platner's polls went from D+8 to dead even within two weeks of his nomination and that was a month before the rape allegations dropped. He would have lost by 20 because support for him was in a tailspin the second normal humans started paying attention. He was literally out of money. His donations vanished after the primary.
America's problem is that primary voters are pathetic fucking low-IQ incel freaks who have never seen the genitalia of the opposite sex in person and saddle those of us with jobs, friends, and families we care about with terrible extremist candidates year in and year out. We'd be better off if the party establishments told their bases to suck a dick and just picked the nominees for each party in a smoke-filled room
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89
The biggest lesson from the Graham Platner debacle is that both parties have been taken over by the biggest subhuman fucking losers to ever live because losers spend 80 hours a week online and have an infinite amount of time to spend on activism because they don't have friends or family and on the unlikely off-chance they have children they never see them because they aren't allowed within a thousand feet of a school or playground This country will not return to greatness until slopulist, unemployable losers stop being allowed to think their opinions matter and get shoved back into lockers where they belong
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@SER1897 @mattyglesias Obama was an establishment liberal. Would not be surprised if Bill himself would have voted for him over his wife in the primary. But the current crop of progressives are a myopic bunch with a thought window of 2 quarters.
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@mattyglesias The saying is that nature abhors a vacuum. If you don't advance true stars who speak to the moment, then you will see more extreme candidates answer the call ... and many might actually win.
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This comment by Tom from Charlottesville is everything to me — “I don’t want to fight, I want to win.”
nytimes.com/2026/07/09/opi…
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I'm always amazing how comfortable some people are calling for the return of the smoke filled room.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
the genie is probably never going back into the bottle but internal party democracy wasn't uncontroversial when it was introduced and is still contested (by some political scientists) for pretty solid reasons
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@bilbowatterson @mattyglesias That Obama opposed gay marriage that even the conservatives have given up on opposing because they changed their minds.
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@mattyglesias Don’t try to rewrite history. In 2008 Democrats won because Republicans were widely perceived as having historically tanked the economy, and Obama ran on a progressive platform.
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I think it's just going to take progressives deciding what their priority is, and that if the priority is taxes and welfare state expansion you need a bigger tent and more moderate positions on cultural issues.
x.com/OsitaNwanevu/s…
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@AlwaysFlacko Rabb knows how Fetterman was put into office. Fight Agency genuinely sucks at vetting. Hiring them is questionable and if they are going out of the way to preselect candidates then gg you have lost. None of successful progressives were recruited by progressives.
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I will say, people are giving AOC credit for not endorsing Platner and seeing the red flags more than Bernie, Warren, and Ro Khanna..
Chris Rabb also deserves credit for seeing those red flags.
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@Uncrewed @AnthonyMEmerson Troy Jackson was someone who could stop all the democrat vote splitting, not run a factional fight, run a smooth election but no populists always want a rabble rouser with a checkered past.
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@Econymous_1 Rufo is at the top of national cons without any economic literacy.
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@myndmaven @riotwomennn @mattyglesias Walz underperforms massively, Khanna comes from an affluent district.
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@riotwomennn @mattyglesias Bernie is.
AOC, Ro Khanna, Walz, Tlaib, etc.. They all "overperform with working class voters."
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The boring truth is that we know the names of the politicians who overperform with working class voters — it’s Josh Shapiro in PA, Roy Cooper & Josh Stein & Don Davis in NC, Vincente Gonzalez & Henry Cuellar in Texas, Gallego/Kelly/Hobbs in AZ, Whitmer/Slotkin in MI.
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@SER1897 @DCCyclone @CrassPolitical Again that's because those candidates lost all funding. On top of that Gallego wins Latino low prosperity trump voters.
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@DCCyclone @CrassPolitical Kari Lake’s extremism alone isn’t why she lost considering that Arizona voters decisively picked Trump 2 years later.
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Yes, based on historical realities of voting behavior...and yet, we see consistently that these avowedly far left candidates are doing fine in state after state. It's a Democratic wave, and very possibly general election voters are set on stopping Trump, with blue no matter who.
Stephen Robinson (Bluesky at @playtyperguy.com)@SER1897
Francesca Hong winning statewide in Wisconsin seems like a reach.
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Yes, but most Freedom Caucus members were from solid red seats. They still ultimately owned McCarthy, who made concessions to them for their speaker vote.
Dave Wasserman@Redistrict
New @CookPolitical: Far-left candidates are winning Dem primaries, but not in most of the races that will decide the House majority. Analysis by @ercovey: cookpolitical.com/analysis/natio…
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@ryangrim It also doesn't impress primary voters if you take them for granted. Stevens keep focusing on her supposed strength among GE swing voters while not making a single appeal to the primary voters who actively don't support her and who she'd need to win.
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A survey that was recently in the field, sponsored by a group supporting Mallory McMorrow, tested a two-way race between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens and found this, I'm told:
Head-to-head:
El-Sayed: 49%
Stevens: 38
Undecided: 13
After positives
El-Sayed: 56
Stevens: 39
After negatives
El-Sayed: 54
Stevens: 39
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@SER1897 @andreagail_k @RachelBitecofer Kind of the reason why Beshear is going to win all the endorsements form the south machine. Kamala stands no chance.
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@andreagail_k @RachelBitecofer The problem is that most of the DSA is affirmatively anti-capitalist. It doesn't take long before they start spouting rhetoric that alienates most working people I grew up with in rural South Carolina (of all races).
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No it doesn’t
What you’re referring to is capitalism
nyara@nyaraVT
I wish people realised that "socialism" means caring about the working class, feeding starving children and giving people affordable healthcare, housing and more..
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@SER1897 That's because the GOP has two opposite electorates in it's tent who is singularly opposed to progressives. Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.
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The point here is that despite the concern trolling from pundits/centrists about the DSA, "moderate" Republicans have been able to thrive and co-exist with an increasingly radical right-wing. They also never have to punch right. Lawler is not the Fetterman of his party.
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The Tea Party/MAGA takeover of the GOP was ultimately enabled by Republicans remaining competitive in swing seats (specifically CA/NY). Marjorie Taylor Greene held a solid red seat, but Mike Lawler (and once upon a time Nancy Mace) helped deliver a GOP majority.
Dave Wasserman@Redistrict
New @CookPolitical: Far-left candidates are winning Dem primaries, but not in most of the races that will decide the House majority. Analysis by @ercovey: cookpolitical.com/analysis/natio…
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