#amy mcgrath

[saywhat-politics]

[thegamecube2]

To any registered Dems in KY please holy fuck vote for Charles Booker in the primary bc Amy McGrath has never stood for anything and definitely isn't gonna start now. If you want a chance at keeping that racist piece of shit Andy Barr out of the senate please vote for someone with a backbone in the primary

[heygingergirl]

And the coup continues…

[amagnificentobsession]

Michael’s role as Eliopolis is folded into the mix as someone who arrives with a backstory that dovetails nicely into this tale: his mother named him after Duncan while she was pregnant, and his admiration of the now middle-aged diva is fraught with equal parts adoration and mischaracterization.

Eliopolis’ role is a mash-up of interloper, translator (helping Duncan understand Zavani’s Italian with a side of inappropriate attraction designed to elevate the obvious), and wide-eyed devotion to someone who is clearly past her prime. With pure speculation based on how his character is portrayed, Michael would have likely spoken with a Greek accent and possibly brought a certain amount of melodramatic flair to the part, given the blatant indication that he’s portraying a gay character.

Just a baby in the film, In Suspicious Circumstances, and the interview for Duncan.✨ ✨

Still with that beautiful smile. ♥️

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[marvelsmostwanted]

Go to votesaveamerica.com/getmitch or give directly to his opponent at AmyMcGrath.com/donate. Visit swingleft.org for more about how we win back the Senate in 2020.

[justsomeantifas]

This is a really interesting article, and it has an incredibly relevant portion about the senate race in Kentucky with Mitch McConnell and Amy McGrath that I think speaks to how the Democratic strategy of pivoting to centrism worked out for them:

Earlier this year McGrath beat her primary challenger, a leftwing insurgent from inner city Louisville named Charles Booker, a member of the state’s lower chambers who ran on policies such as Medicare 4 All and a Green New Deal. Booker championed these policies under a vision he called “Hood to the Holler,” which tied together the state’s urban and rural areas under the shared fight against a common exploitation. It was inspiring, and it was dangerous, and it had to be defeated. Booker’s shoestring budget operation couldn’t compete with the millions of dollars flowing into the McGrath campaign, nor could it compete with Chuck Schumer and the DSCC’s endorsements of McGrath, and so he wound up surging too late. Our fighter pilot barely squeaked by, and now she faces McConnell, who is sure to win.

Note several relevant points here: 1) McGrath’s primary challenger, Charles Booker, campaigned on a far more leftist platform than McGrath did, 2) he lost because Amy McGrath’s campaign out fundraised him by a huge margin, and bc the Democratic establishment did not support him, because they thought his policies were too leftist and would alienate the voters in Kentucky, who apparently don’t want healthcare.

Amy McGrath’s campaign, in fact, out fundraised Mitch McConnell’s campaign. All things considered, she really should have won. Especially in light of the fact that apparently, McConnell isn’t well-liked in Kentucky:

This race is particularly frustrating because McConnell is in fact vulnerable. He stopped bringing anything substantial back to Kentucky long ago. He’s not like machine-man Rogers; he doesn’t demand absolute fealty from every one of his constituents. He only requires it from the ones he needs to win his races – which means a shrinking pool of voters – and that’s what he gets. As a result, he’s become extremely unpopular in the state; many people in Eastern Kentucky despise him. But he does have one leg to stand on, and only one: he keeps Kentucky relevant at the national level, allowing it to “punch above its weight” against heavy hitters like New York and California. Again, we don’t actually get anything out of this arrangement, other than the fantasy of our issues being addressed and the projections of the “I’d-rather-be-at-brunch” liberals. But the idea does sound good on paper, and so he manages to get by.

Eastern Kentucky, btw, is one of the poorest (and whitest) regions of the state. And there’s more:

And it doesn’t hurt that the Democrats refuse to run anyone of substance against him. McConnell’s last challenger was Alison Lundergan Grimes, daughter of a major Kentucky Democratic Party scion and thus the heiress fail-daughter to the Kentucky Democratic Party. Her own father came from a generation when Kentuckians still voted for Democrats, and not even she could beat McConnell. The McGrath campaign is twice as inept and half as charming. It’s been surreal to watch how, over the course of her campaign, her go-to inspirational story has become about the time she stood by to receive the order from President Bush to shoot down Flight 93 on 9/11. I may not be James Carville, but I believe it’s generally considered poor form to brag about your willingness to gun down your fellow Americans. 

So, to recap, the Democrats:

1) went all in on removing the one Democratic challenger in the primaries who ran on a much more leftist platform, which not only promised M4A and a Green New Deal, but sought to unify both the urban and rural parts of the state

2) favoured a milque-toast centrist Democrat in order to appeal to Trump voters/undecided centrists instead

3) ran a campaign for aforementioned milque-toast, charisma-void centrist Democrat that was, at best, inept and completely unable to obtain mass support

4) in spite of that, her campaign actually managed to out fundraise Mitch McConnell’s campaign

5) and yet, still managed to lose a senate race that they should technically have had in the fucking bag, considering the fact that a) Mitch McConnell is DEEPLY unpopular in his own fucking state, b) the Democrats outfundraised his campaign, and c) they ran a centrist Democratic challenger to McConnell who, theoretically, should have had more appeal in a place like Kentucky than Charles Booker does.

It’s interesting to see centrist Democrats place the blame for their electoral losses at the feet of people like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, for being too “left wing radical” and for pushing for movements like “defunding the police”, when the fact is that the centrists who they run in races to oust Republicans consistently lose--even in places where they shouldn’t.

The Democrats should not have fucking lost in Kentucky. They should not have been unable to defeat Mitch McConnell. Their failure to do so is not because of the progressive elements of their party. The fact that they’re punting the blame to those people deserves a closer scrutiny and criticism, because what the establishment wing of the Democrats is trying to do is excise this part of their party, even though this means they’ll be losing more elections going forward.

[destielle]

Misha talking to Amy McGrath about voting in Kentucky on 11/3/20.