To the editor: Columnist Mark Z. Barabak dispenses pablum from folks with critiques of Democratic messaging in 2024. (“She’s won twice in Trump country. What can this Democrat teach her party?” column, Nov. 19)
Washington state’s Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez advised Barabak, “It’s the mistaken concept to remove from this that I’ve obtained some 10-point plan.” However the subsequent piece of recommendation from Gluesenkamp Perez, as summarized by Barabak, is incoherent: “Maybe above all, run extra candidates who’ve gotten dust underneath their fingernails.”
She says, “The observe report of success is just not whether or not you went to an Ivy League establishment.”
This evaluation ignores the non-Ivy League presidential candidate with french-fry grease on her arms who ran in opposition to a College of Pennsylvania alumnus with bone spurs in the course of the Vietnam Battle.
Barabak would do nicely to keep in mind that Harris could be the president-elect if 237,000 swing-state voters had not chosen Trump, Jill Stein or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Among the many 7 million voters in Pennsylvania, Harris misplaced by only one.7 proportion factors.
Primarily based on the precise outcomes, I’d say the Democrats’ messaging wants minor tweaking, not wholesale revision.
Kathi Smith, Ojai
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To the editor: In writing about Gluesenkamp Perez’s victory in Washington’s third Congressional District, Barabak missed one thing.
Whereas receiving extra votes county-by-county (there are seven in her congressional district) than Vice President Kamala Harris, she decisively misplaced the 5 “rural” counties, together with Skamania County, the place she resides. The one county she received by a large margin was Clark County, the one really city county in her district, and solely a bridge away from Portland, Ore.
The election outcome clearly demonstrated that Gluesenkamp Perez’s political fortunes don’t lie within the rural counties of the third District, however in Vancouver, Wash. An economics graduate of the elite Reed Faculty, she actually is aware of this.
Gluesenkamp Perez’s cowboy boots schtick seemingly should be deserted sooner moderately than later. I occur to love quite a lot of what she says she stands for and gave her my vote.
John McDonald, Vancouver, Wash.
