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Michael Smith's avatar

Mayors in major American cities all over the country in red states and blue states are a huge source of strength for democrats.

So why don’t more of them seek higher office?

I feel like in senate races like in North Carolina and Texas we could have done better with a mayor from one of those states’ major cities as the candidate instead of a state senator nobody has ever heard of. Most people that don’t pay attention to politics much don’t even know who their own state Senator is! But they do know their mayor.

Mayors have a built in base of supporters that have already voted for them before and higher name recognition than almost anybody else that could run.

Imho we should be utilizing this strength more than we do and recruit more mayors to seek higher office as governors and/or senators.

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Sandi's avatar

Did all the postcard and letter writing have an effect? How about all the phone banking from everywhere? It certainly wasn't money as some of the well funded campaigns lost

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