In 2024, Harris, the DNC, and the SuperPACs scrupulously followed Shor's advice to achieve a decline across every metric and every demographic. Urban, rural, college, non-college, young, old—you name it and Shor's mealy-mouthed centrism produced a loss.
So of course Dems still listen to him.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
Vichy Dems @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @democrats.org
In retrospect it makes the swing state field operation even more impressive. Candidate weighed down by quant-y messaging and the unique circumstances of her candidacy… and they still nearly pulled it off and overperformed almost every other incumbent party in the world
Who pays this dude, David Shor?
Come and see our fossils, ladies and gentlemen! They run the party.
Their feelings don't care about the facts.
Basically, Shor's truly an establishment for the GQP - their secret weapon.
This especially blows my mind! I think it was a good theory -- do good things and people will reward you! But by late 2023/early 2024, it clearly wasn't working. And it definitively failed in the election. So... that should settle that, right?
Shor produced the best anti-Trump but nothing else coalition that the Democrats can put up now, so there’s no point in listening to him anymore
FFS. It’s Bob Shrum all over again.
Israeli born Shor now tells them that Gen Z is the most "conservative" ever so their overwhelming demands to protect Palestinians from genocide can keep being ignored.
There's an enabling reason he's always on Maher's show and partners with Anita Dunn and Kara Swisher.
#Popularism
I like Harris. But on several occasions I watched her NOT answer slam-dunk questions with a hell of a lot of words.
The “Trump is restoring order” talking point is such an idiotic one
“My safety is being threatened by that jaywalker over there and I require a military takeover to restore order! Because everyone must be safe!”
You could almost pinpoint the day. All the air left everything as soon as weird stopped and Cheney started.
The Democrats strategy for decades.
Isn't he also in a very racist FB group under a fake name?
After every loss, Dems say “we need to go to the center”, GOP say “we didn’t go far enough to the right”. This leads to everyone heading right. It’s BS.
I generally think socialists are smart but this guy is the dumbest person alive
You keep pretending people want far left policies and you will keep electing fascists. Harris lost because Democrats refuse to enforce the Southern border and refuse to have a common sense approach to trans people. Not because they were too centrist.
Obviously we should listen to the leftist strategy of attacking the Democrats in order to make ppl vote for Democrats
Easier to blame the black woman
Someone needs to A/B test Shor vs anything else.
It’s shocking how closely they followed his exact advice from 2018-19
Still want to know who it was who nixed Walz saying "they're weird" (which also energized Harris! that vibe seemed to be part of why she picked him!) and then put him in a closet for like three weeks after the convention
Shor and plouffe should never work in this country again.
Dem leadership loves this loser shit. They can't get enough of losing.
Bending the knee to the Bernie/AOC/Mamdani wing of the party helps… how?
Democrats abandoning the power of persuasion is remarkable. It's almost like slitting their own wrists.
Why quit the strategy that lost you all three branches of the federal government, the Supreme Court for a generation, and a majority of state houses, despite having a far more popular agenda?
So, not only does their methodology suck, but their actual messaging does too. The KISS principle (Keep it Simple, Stupid) would work here, but the data nerds think they can keep tweak the algorithm to victory.
So basically the democrats have no platform. Everything is trump this & trump that. But what is YOUR message DNC? what the hell are the people voting for if they vote democrat? "Vote for us bc we're not trump"?! Seriously? THIS ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. No wonder u look like clowns ffs, get off your asses!
The DNC earned us Trump-I.
People wanted Bernie; DNC didn’t.
Game over.
Let’s get over them.
Eject shor
They already lost TWICE following this bullshit advice. Are we going for permanent fascism?? Somebody needs to slap these people into consciousness
This is why the people must launch a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party.
If the dems don’t change, we have no hope for the future! Why are they so quiet. Sending out tweets isn’t going to cut it!
Could be that this Shor's a genius, who limited the scale of the defeat. Going even further left might bring some of your own people back, but will alienate many more voters overall.
US Democrats are getting set to make the classic UK Labour mistake. What happens then is 15-20 years out of power.
Even in an industry dominated by failed-upwards losers, David Shor stands out.
don't make me tap the sign
$1B+ dollars btw
