You continue to embarrass yourself with every post. He cited a post about Chris Dudley leading Tina Kotek. Chris Dudley was crushed in the GOP primary LITERALLY LAST NIGHT, making that poll irrelevant. Why you are defending that post ... I will never know.
Chris Dudley may or may not be the "lowest rated Republican candidate IN A GENERAL ELECTION," I have no way of knowing. Winning a primary does not mean you will be more popular than a person who lost said primary among the general electorate. You seem to think a right-wing lunatic who wins a primary will be more popular among the broader electorate because he/she won the primary, relative to a moderate who loses the primary. That has repeatedly been proven false based on every statistical electoral analysis ... the closer a candidate is perceived to be to the center (assuming out corruption), the better said candidate does in general elections. This applies in all districts (far right, moderate, far left), it just doesn't matter much in the districts where a R or D are a lock to win.
Now there's a complex calculation as to where you'd want to nominate more ideologically pure and more moderate candidates, depends on the district. And the Oregon Democratic party assuredly sucks, plenty of examples of that. But the point was that Chris Dudley was a decent center, hideous FT shooter, and isn't very relevant to the Oregon gubernatorial race as of this morning.
I will be frank. I really don't like the people who post on this chain, with a couple of exceptions. They are generally deluded and basically have created their own Internet realities. Hopefully the emergence of Senator-Elect Talarico late this year will open some eyes, we shall see. Thank you for making this my last post for a few months.
And before I leave, Democrats are going to relentlessly crush the GOP come November. Because Trump - a malignant narcissist who just created a $1.776B slush fund - has a 38.5% approval rating. Democrats are also on course to win in 2028 and take back full control ... unless Rs do a course correction that shocks me, something like nominating Rubio, Kemp, or Youngkin. It's gonna be bad, and I'm going to laugh at you.
