Barack Obama Gives Crucial Advice To Democrats Following 2025 Election Wins

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1. Good advice. We need to return to a 50-state strategy.

Every election is local. Every campaign has to be won one precinct at a time. Every precinct needs their own message.

Obama won midwestern states because he campaigned there, diner by diner, eating a lot of pie, talking to farmers and small business owners about what matters to them.

He won the votes and essential monetary support of wealthy Democrats because he spoke to groups in NYC and California at expensive fundraisers about what matters to them. That's how you win.

I'm still seeing on DU echoes of the black/white, all/nothing purity voting approach that doomed Hillary Clinton's and Kamala Harris's campaigns because too many Democratic voters have disdain for anybody who isn't exactly like themselves.

It's not selling out our economic vision to court wealthy Democrats. We need their votes and their campaign funding in order to get elected and fight for what we believe in. It's not selling out our progressive ideals to court rural socially conservative Democrats. We need their votes and their networks.

Not everybody agrees with us.

We can't sit in our homes and say "this is the way it's supposed to be" and assume we'll get it. We have to make deals, negotiate, be strategy. We have to be in power to enact laws.

Too many Democrats don't understand that.