I had a call today from an INDEPENDENT running for Congress in Colorado...

[brooklynite]

CO-2, a SAFE Blue seat. His pitch was that there's too much division in Congress, and we need principled independents working with both sides. He offered an impressive list of endorsements, but none of the outcomes I could envision seemed promising:

If I supported him and he won, I've burned cash on a safe seat that I could have used to win one from the Republicans elsewhere.

If I support him and he likely LOST, there's a risk the Democratic vote is split and a Republican slips in.

If he got into office, I can't see any current Republican willing to work cooperatively with him. And whether or not the Democrats take the House, they will reduce the Republican caucus, largely by picking up remaining marginal seats. The reddest absolutely safe R seats would still remain, and the Republicans would be even more hostile to cooperation.

This might be a lovely, idealistic crusade at another time, but right now defeating Republicans is all I care about.

[RandySF]

1. I've been a partisan Democrat my entire life.

But 2018 is the first time I ever felt like our lives depended on us winning.

[Weed Man]

2. CD-2 is Polis' seats

It is very blue, and don't think it's going anywhere besides the D's.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Support Polis.

He's not perfect but he's good and he'll keep it blue.

[Exultant Democracy]

6. Hes running for gov seat is open.

[Hekate]

4. Congress is ALL about who has the majority. It's nice if Independents caucus with Dems...

...but they do NOT get us closer to having a majority. Bernie Sanders could actually help by registering as a Democratic Senator -- but he will not. He is a man of principle -- rigid, unbending, principle -- and our Party is simply not worthy of his actual allegiance.

We might have better luck trying to get a couple of disgusted and horrified Republican Senators to change their registration to Independent while still serving their term. A handful of them show flashes of conscience. And that's where the math would work in our favor: their change would not add to us, but it would subtract from the GOP's majority.

I completely agree with you -- my advice to such a candidate would be to run as a Democrat, or I wouldn't even consider them.

[Cha]

5. Yeah, to me.. that's a pipe dream

trying to bring the sides together.. has he been paying attention to how the repubs in Congress are obstructing justice, and the Dems are trying to get to the truth of the Russian meddling.. and all the money laundering from trump and his doormats?