Category: Elections (Page 5 of 18)

As we approach the 2022 election, it’s worth remembering that elections aren’t just about candidates and offices. Voters also choose whether to adopt various issue-based ballot initiatives. Pundits (and voters) often ignore these initiatives.

Let’s take a look at 4 of these ballot initiatives for leftists to watch. I’ll point out that the outset that there are a few abortion initiatives on the ballot in certain states. California and Michigan, for example, have initiatives on the ballot that would guarantee reproductive freedom if enacted.

But I’m going to set these aside for the moment. They’re important, but they’re already getting a fair bit of attention in light of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Instead, I’ll look at initiatives many leftists probably haven’t noticed.

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The left leaning candidate almost always loses the Democratic nomination. Why?

Among their major electoral problems, progressives and left leaning electoralists can’t count. In other words, they don’t know what a majority of the Democratic Party consists in and how to get there. Nor is this merely a problem of electoral organizing. It’s also one of the key problems Jane McAlevey sees in many unions in her book No Shortcuts, among other works.

In order to get to some ways to solve all this, I’d like to take a look at the Democratic Party and its presidential nomination. Who does win? And how do they do it? What kind of coalition of voters do they build?

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