Imagine a Republican asks you: how do we compete in New England? We hold no Congressional districts (though I expect ME-2 to flip). What would your advice be? Well, I think my advice would be to cater to the voters. Try to moderate in some spots, rally your voters around some wedge issues, and then do a good job in office. Maybe that would work.
I don't know. Maybe like Charlie Baker in Massachusetts. Or Phil Scott in Vermont. Or Susan Collins in Maine. You get the point. What Steve and others are asking you and Democrats to do is exactly what Republicans have done in places to win.
Ah I missed that but the point is there used to be a bunch of moderate NE House Republicans and they all lost for the same reason that there are few Dems in the Deep South - partisanship drives everything
Imagine a Republican asks you: how do we compete in New England? We hold no Congressional districts (though I expect ME-2 to flip). What would your advice be? Well, I think my advice would be to cater to the voters. Try to moderate in some spots, rally your voters around some wedge issues, and then do a good job in office. Maybe that would work.
I don't know. Maybe like Charlie Baker in Massachusetts. Or Phil Scott in Vermont. Or Susan Collins in Maine. You get the point. What Steve and others are asking you and Democrats to do is exactly what Republicans have done in places to win.
There are no Republican House members in all of New England
I literally say that in sentence 2
Ah I missed that but the point is there used to be a bunch of moderate NE House Republicans and they all lost for the same reason that there are few Dems in the Deep South - partisanship drives everything