Democrats, Progressives, Women, and Minorities had a great night last night. Running on issues like Medicare for all and appealing to all demographic regions, Democratic enthusiasm outpaced Republican energy in last nights primaries.
A Native American Woman is the Democratic Nominee for Governor of Idaho.
Women will serve on the Pennsylvania House Delegation for the first time in five years in 2019.
This is all good news.
There is, however, a note of caution. Some of the liberal progressive candidates have won in some areas that may cater to more centrist and moderate tendencies. Having pictures of candidates burning firearms and campaigning on legalizing marijuana may turn off voters that agree with candidates on most of the other issues. Knowing this now, these candidates need to work hard to win over people on the fence and explain how they will be decent, competent, and fight and work hard for a better tomorrow for their constituents and the country. It is great if the general election populace in these areas these candidates won in are ready and riled for the liberal progressive message. It would also be great if candidates needed to moderate their message a little without sacrificing their core goals so they could win where the general election populace is a little leery of too many radical approaches.
Again, this is the time to start considering a grand summit when all the primaries are over with all state and national Democratic and Progressive Nominees getting together and adopt a Unified Party Platform that can be tweaked along district lines. This along with running on the themes of decent behavior, competent stewardship, and a commitment to fighting and working for a better tomorrow should help spread a positive and forward-looking message that should take the Democrats past the finish line in November ahead of the Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/05/16/daily-202-the-far-left-is-winning-the-democratic-civil-war/5afb5fe230fb042588799528/?utm_term=.14bacd0e9bfa&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
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