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Andy Craig

Democrats already do recruit moderate (and moderate-coded) candidates to run in red states. Republicans do the same in blue states. It works a lot more often for governor than it does for Congress, because voters understand on the latter they're voting for which party they want in the majority.

Matthew Yglesias

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Andy Craig

It's not that "run relative moderates in the other party's states/districts" is wrong, it's that it's so obvious both parties already do it. It's less effective now because voters are more straight-ticket and politics is more nationalized, not because political strategists forgot the one neat trick.

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R D Thorsett

And in the end, folks like Matt and Welcome PAC don't just want Dems to run moderates in purple districts, they want them to run moderates *everywhere* so that there can never be the hint of a whiff on non-moderation which (they seem to believe) will stymie GOP attacks ads.

Adam Miller

Yes but the Mattys of the world also want moderates from the most progressive districts.

Andy Craig

Phil Scott, for example, can put up Assad margins running for governor and would get slaughtered if he tried to run for Senate. Many such cases, like Hogan. It's why Beshear wasn't dumb enough to try running for Senate. Or for that matter John Bel Edwards, who Schumer tried and failed to recruit.

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Texas Lopez⭐️

Keeping in mind also that those voters for governor do so knowing there will be a majority of the opposing party in the legislature to check on the governor.

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Alex Says Stuff

Also, what wins a lot of voters to cast cross-party votes isn't so much taking calculatedly compromise moderate stances as prominently and performatively defying the party line. A Governor in an other-party state can do that at a relative low cost for the party. A Senator can't.

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Jerry Edwards

Yup. Could also point to Steve Bullock and Phil Bredesen on the D side who ran for the Senate and lost by 10+%.