A.Stringer

"The current #UK #economiccrisis is a dual one of crumbling #publicservices and #stagnantgrowth, and a key mistake the #Labourgovernment is making is keeping #taxes too low. But is their reluctance to raise taxes primarily due to a hunger for #economicrespectability? It seems to me it is more about a hunger for #electability, and thinking (incorrectly in my view [1]) that higher taxes will lose them #votes because it will add to the current #costoflivingcrisis."

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#UKpol

Why following the path of the last Labour government will not work this time

  The Blair/Brown government waited until they had…

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RustyLMehlberg

Thoughts on US Prez Election

That is still the case, but #Democrats came to realize in the past weeks (especially after a lackluster #debate performance), that #electability would be an issue if #Biden stayed in.

They were seeing a situation where 2016 was repeating itself: a top of the ticket #candidate that would likely push enough people to not vote in the #election, opening the way for #Trump to win.

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Ecologia Digital

"a transition, from the #Biden vision of #electability, to a Sanders vision, an #antiestablishment vision...
from thinking that the candidate has to appeal to moderate republicans, to embracing the Sanders framework of motivating a coalition cross section of voters across races and generations.

And doing that, it takes Bernie Sanders from being the least electable candidate, to the only one who can build that kind of coalition."

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The Field: Biden’s Last Hope - The Daily

Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. was once…

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LPS

Robert Reich: A Centrist Cannot Win in 2020

This piece originally appeared on RobertReich.Org. I keep hearing that the Democratic primary is coming down to someone who’s “electable” versus s

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#2020 #trump #centrist #robertreich #electability #nostatusquo