Morning Joe hit on something I've been thinking about for a while.

There's some dude running as a Democrat for mayor in Omaha, Nebraska. A lot of Democrats are pulling their support for him because 8 yrs ago he supported a state senate bill requiring doctors to tell women getting abortions that they had a right to ask for an ultrasound.

That Congressional candidate in GA a few days ago apparently wasn't ideologically pure enough to garner Bernie Sanders' support.

The question is, does a candidate need to have 100% scores on all the progressive benchmarks to be an acceptable candidate? Does the culture/values of their constituency not matter.

About month ago here, someone was saying the Joe Manchins of the Dem party gotta get out now. What other person that will vote with the Dems 75% of the time win in West Virginia??

If progressives demand purity, ain't no Democrats ever going to win seats in Kentucky, Arkansas, Bama, because if the go full on progressive they will be out of line with the values of those populations.

So yeah, do Democrats want to win seats? Or do they want to be pure?

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