Biden only won because we were in the middle of the pandemic and the economy was in the shitter and even then it was by a razor thin margin. Obama was charismatic and had a lot of us believing change would happen in 2008 but it never really came. In 2012 he beat Romney who was also milquetoast but most of the enthusiasm for him was gone by that point.
I don’t think they want to if it means they’ll have to actually live up to the party’s stated ideals rather than Republican-lite ideals. That’s why they back the Bidens, Clintons, and Harris’ of the party instead of the AOCs or Sanders of the party.
If you run a left-leaning candidate then the Republicans would call them woke and socialist. The average voter is clearly not a fan. Especially men, no matter how much Democrats try to pretend otherwise
They have called hillary clinton, joe biden, and kamala harris woke and socialists. They will do that to literally anyone. As long as the dem candidates are bad policy communicators those labels will stick and be perceived as negative.
Bernie is also not a Democrat. He only joined the party to run for president. He left again.
Right, and his views wouldn’t make a winning platform
As opposed to who, Hillary Clinton?
No, you need someone more charismatic than that
Obama won both terms easily. Even Biden won, although it was closer
Biden only won because we were in the middle of the pandemic and the economy was in the shitter and even then it was by a razor thin margin. Obama was charismatic and had a lot of us believing change would happen in 2008 but it never really came. In 2012 he beat Romney who was also milquetoast but most of the enthusiasm for him was gone by that point.
He beat Romney even harder, it was a blowout. Why can’t Democrats find a candidate that replicates this success?
I don’t think they want to if it means they’ll have to actually live up to the party’s stated ideals rather than Republican-lite ideals. That’s why they back the Bidens, Clintons, and Harris’ of the party instead of the AOCs or Sanders of the party.
If you run a left-leaning candidate then the Republicans would call them woke and socialist. The average voter is clearly not a fan. Especially men, no matter how much Democrats try to pretend otherwise
They have called hillary clinton, joe biden, and kamala harris woke and socialists. They will do that to literally anyone. As long as the dem candidates are bad policy communicators those labels will stick and be perceived as negative.