Kos on FL. special election: We don't turn out we don't win bottom line

[bigdarryl]

And from his assessment Sink was a FUCKED UP!!! candidate running on cutting Social Security and austerity.And my assessment the DNC Chairwoman should of been fired this morning.She can't even get the ground game going in her back yard what the fuck is she going to do on a national level. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/12/1284086/-Florida-special-election-We-didn-t-turn-out-we-didn-t-win

[Autumn]

1. Sounds like the voters made the right choice in not voting for her.

I sure wouldn't vote for her, I would stay home on my ass too if that is what I was given to vote for. Why on earth did the Democratic Party back her, in a place like Florida where there are so many seniors.

[Gothmog]

2. We needed to turnout 200,000 votes

Only 180,000 people voted and so Alex Sink lost

[Autumn]

3. Would you vote for Democrat who runs on cutting SS? I sure wouldn't show up

from the article.

"But given our anemic base turnout, Democratic candidates need to do a better job motivating them to vote. And in this case, I don't blame our base voters. When Democrats like Alex Sink run on austerity, cutting Social Security and bringing back the Simpson-Bowles Catfood Commission, well, no one is inspired. That has to be part of any effective base-mobilization strategy. Maybe promising to be a dick wins over some independent support (Sink did win the early vote despite the outsized GOP numbers), but that's as relevant as Mitt Romney winning independents by double digits in 2012. Democrats win by getting Democrats to the polls. There are more of us than there are of them. Period."

Now I don't know how she ran, that's what the article says. But that sure would get me to sit out an election.

[bigdarryl]

4. Markos is very good at progressive politics

And poll numbers he uses PPP for his polling on his Daily Kos website