r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🖤 • 6h ago

Politics If we can make it here..

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 6h ago

Democrats in the South need to duplicate her messaging

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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 6h ago

What was her messaging?

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u/stein63 5h ago

She won on 20 years of local experience and practical issues like transportation, city services, communication, and accountability, not national Democratic politics.

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u/skivian 4h ago

grassroots is super important messaging, one that I wish more people understood. the republicans very much understand the importance of who's on the school board, not just voting for president.

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u/RecipeAsleep7087 5h ago

I sorta figured it was something like that. Given the location and voting history of the area, she was probably really fucking good at her job.

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u/Captain_Vegetable 4h ago

“All politics is local” as Tip O'Neill used to say.

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u/exploding_cat_wizard 4h ago

Which is something Democrats need to copy with slightly different issues on state level. States control elections, gerrymandering, so much.

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 5h ago

Whatever it was, it worked.

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u/4daughters 1h ago

voter turnout was 22%. Shows that sometimes all you have to do is show up!