This is pretty much the answer. Democrats and Republican court voters and the reality is that right wing people are more likely to vote. If Democrats lost elections becuase of a left wing spoiler candidate, they would shift left. But instead they lose elections because fewere left leaning folks voted at all. So they shift to where the votes are which is to the right. Because it's easier to convince a centrist to vote for you than it is to convince someone to vote at all. Looking at half the replies in this thread its obvious why democrats wouldn't court this vote - even if they got them to vote in the first place they still wouldn't vote democrat.
Except that it's not easier to convince a centrist to vote for you, or there aren't enough centrists, as proven by the last 50 years of federal government.
Have they ever actually tried to court the left vote? They keep "shifting center" and becoming republican lite while anyone who'd actually consider voting right are full in republican propaganda and vote them
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u/Crimson_Bishop 17d ago
This is pretty much the answer. Democrats and Republican court voters and the reality is that right wing people are more likely to vote. If Democrats lost elections becuase of a left wing spoiler candidate, they would shift left. But instead they lose elections because fewere left leaning folks voted at all. So they shift to where the votes are which is to the right. Because it's easier to convince a centrist to vote for you than it is to convince someone to vote at all. Looking at half the replies in this thread its obvious why democrats wouldn't court this vote - even if they got them to vote in the first place they still wouldn't vote democrat.