Alex Roarty

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@danielmarans I'd add that the challenge faced in these times by challengers isn't just felt in Democratic primaries -- it could extend to all challenger candidates, from both parties. They need $ more, and it's harder to raise now. Incumbents also have benefit of much greater visibility now — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

Challenging an incumbent member of Congress in a primary is hard. Doing it during a pandemic is harder. Good story from @danielmarans https://t.co/LaZDMHWayg — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

you'll see politicians label their opponents 'corrupt' or 'ignorant' pretty regularly but what sticks is the "just plain meanness" — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @davecatanese: . @Bencjacobs on how the daily White House briefing is felt as a health risk for some, but an access opportunity for othe… — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @NickRiccardi: Thread implying a major upcoming change in how the US runs elections — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@John__Cole the 2000-2005 run for Shaq is underrated. He tilted the whole league his direction -- and sure, people will say it was post-Jordan and pre-Lebron, but I mean, that was still during the KG/Duncan respective heydays and there was no arguing who the best player was — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@John__Cole giannis — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@DanielStrauss4 i thought the macarena was a strange choice but you dance it beautifully — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

I don’t like “this” tweets but ... This this this — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

My compliments to the people blasting Robyn and holding an impromptu dance party outside my home rn — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @davecatanese: Genuinely surprised Bernie moved *this* fast ... but bringing along his troops was always going to be the heavier lift.… — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@KevinKay500bee i'm not sure I did think it'd go away? I'm curious why it opened up in the first place, but it wouldn't surprise me if this continued to be a problem for them. — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@KevinKay500bee ... when parties lose/win presidential elections, because the loss makes you refocus and the win makes you complacent. that might have been what happened here! or who knows maybe the gap is always mostly illusory or at least overstated. — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@KevinKay500bee I also spent a lot of time talking with GOP strategists post-2012 who were convinced they had fallen behind Democrats on all fronts campaigning. Now, many of them were also convinced they'd catch up, and that this sort of leap-frogging happens all the time ... — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@KevinKay500bee yes, I don't think the RNC is run by morons. I do think a party who's former president helped pioneer online campaigning and whose demographics lean younger should have had some natural advantages with digital outreach (also factor in that much of Silicon Valley leans left) — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@KevinKay500bee OK good talk, see you out there — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

one day it's sunny, the next it's raining! ain't it something? @AdamWollner tells me that in Wisconsin, sometimes it'd rain and then get sunny in the *same day*. — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

Weather, huh? — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

there's an entire digital gap that opened between Dems and Rs in 2016 the origins of which I'm not entirely clear about. Maybe a post-Romney GOP refocused on the right things? Maybe Dems got complacent? — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

Biden and Bernie have a moment of levity joking about playing chess together. Elections are determined by a million different factors and are almost infinitely complex ... but the 2020 race might end up being proof that personal relationships can matter a lot, too — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

one response to the Bernie-Biden endorsement from the Left — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

big rhetorical shift with political implications if he sticks to it — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @davecatanese: Bernie -- notorious party crasher -- gets there before . . . Warren. — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@mmarczi good point. i meant to ask this question of you guys last year but when was the last time an Oline had three starters who went undrafted? We had Foster-Al-Feiler last year (next two the two blue chippers in Pouncey and DeCastro, of course) — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

@mmarczi one of the great benefits of Colbert and Co. building the offensive line that they did was they could invest draft picks in other parts of the roster. sadly, that era is probably at an end — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

Doesn't take a brain genius to understand how the economic hardships afflicting the millennial generation could alter the country's political direction over the coming decades, particularly as those voters gain more and more political clout https://t.co/7OemVITzeb — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @amyewalter: Lotta assumptions being made about which party benefits from Vote By Mail. @BowTiePolitics has the data for NC, which show… — PolitiTweet.org

Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

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Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty

RT @mattdpearce: Camus, “The Plague.” https://t.co/SjEJixAXgO — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryangrim: This is a bigger deal than you might think. NEWS: Mike Bloomberg’s firm that ran his presidential campaign is bidding to ta… — PolitiTweet.org