TL;DR; gerrymandering means that there are a lot of races where the best a Democrat could do is 35% or so of the vote. The same often goes for white rural areas where the boundaries weren’t gerrymandered, but are simply non-competitive. Democrats don’t even bother running a candidate a lot of the time under those conditions.
A Democracy With Everything but a Choice | A new analysis of American elections finds that in half of all races for partisan offices, a candidate runs unopposed. Democrats are the biggest no-shows.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The goal of the modern DNC is just enough majority to gain control, but not enough that voters would call for them to actually fix the things their do it’s like broken.
Because that involves losing House/Senate seats in “red states” they’ve just abandoned them.
Things like the “victory fund” exacerbate because what little is turned back over to states, is usually days before the election when it’s hard to be utilized or even after the election.
Because the max state donations are being routed straight to the presidential candidate, it also dries up available contributions directly to a state.
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The DNC has remarkably little power over any of this; organizing at the local level happens locally and that’s really hard to do when it’s so far from attaining anything like power at the municipal or county level.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Except the victory fund is taking all the money away from state parties…
Who are the ones who do what you’re saying the DNC doesn’t do…