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Sherry Daniels's avatar

However, Dems need to have conventions like GOP. They have cpac, Texas GOP have their own convention, Turning Point, etc. They get on one sheet of music.

We need to meet and discuss ideas. I would love a convention where Bernie discussed medicare for all and Pete discussed the public option. We could ask questions and then choose one.

(I prefer the public option and if successful, would evolve into Medicare for all).

Imagine conventions for how to manage gun control. There are probably one million things we could do that I don't know about because Dems don't meet and build on ideas.

Imagine a conversation on education where we meet candidates running for school superintendents or librarians, discussing book bans, the department of education and what we can do to keep it solvent.

Each convention discuss what we can do, who's running for office, and help develop a platform.

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MarcinVA's avatar

They also need to go on the road to these areas where the low information voters are. We laugh at all the Trump rallies in podunk towns, but those rallies down hundreds of Podcaster and bloggers to gather where it makes these hot takes easier. Plus, it is much easier to show a rural food and health desert community that Dem policies are better for them when you're saying it from Norfolk, NE than from Norfolk, VA. Remember--we don't need to win those communities. We just need to create enough doubt that the other side is the right one that some people stay home.

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