• deksesuma@lemmy.world
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    Democratic senator from an otherwise red state. He tends to be a spoiler for Democratic plans, along with Kristen Synema.

    If the GOP was closer to the center, he would likely switch parties.

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      from an otherwise red state

      Not really, his voters overwhelmingly support progressive policies.

      It’s just no progressive has a chance in the primary with the party blocking all of Manchin’s primary opponents.

      It has been on a downswing lately tho. 2016 there was more D than R voters, and 2021 it got tied up.

      I do t know why everyone acts like all these “red states” are worth writing off, it really wouldn’t be hard if we actually tried for them.

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        I don’t know where you’re getting there being more D than R voters in WV. The last two presidential elections went to Trump by 40 points

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        Manchin is a senator, which means the election is state-wide, and West Virginia is a deeply red state.

        A Progressive candidate has 0 chance in West Virginia and any claim otherwise is quite simply wishful thinking.

        Let’s leave the Bernie Math in 2016

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      He’s not all bad. He has let the democrats get through as many judges as possible. That said, he is a bad look for the party hands down. He allows moderates to believe democrats have a plurality when really they are just being lead by the people the least to the left. So when things go wrong it was the other 48’s fault but not really.