do you think they should be primary? that s up to the voters in those states. there s understandable frustration. the primary is groming progressive democratic groups who say if you can t stick with something as important as the supreme court, then we need to put somebody in there who will. i m not going to comment on senate elections in other states. what i will say is that i understand frustration. had garland was held up for months. it is perfectly reasonable for folks to be asking, whether or not we shouldn t be giving it back as good as we got. who do you think is the leader of the democratic party right now? that s a good question. what i know is that folks in the community here are stepping up to lead in a way the 97 have before. perhaps the leaders of the democratic party are the grassroots organizers who are getting it together and win campaigns. that s not suggesting there
we re going to get pennsylvania this year and they never, never, ever it s like lucy and the football or charlie brown. it never happens, at the big pumpkin. it doesn t happen. their propaganda, they convince themselves they can do it. every four years republicans swear the state they re going to flip is philadelphia. they said it in 04, said it in 08, said it in 12. i think pennsylvania is so enticing to them, it feels like a stay like ohio, that they should be able to flip it. but metrics and data don t win campaigns. campaig campaigns win campaigns. democrats have a heck of a machine out there. you have an entrenched political machinery that the democrats just have and republicans don t. and even if republicans did, that same kind of machinery doesn t work as well in rural counties. that s a bigger lift. they d need a much bigger staff to try to pull people out of those rural counties than democrats can do it in a concentrated state. and you talk about concentrated, concent