Where Kang and Kodos got it wrong is that the real action was in the primaries, and before the primaries (building up other candidates' organizations, recruiting candidates, elections for lower office, developing grassroots groups that can influence who runs, ...). It's unfortunately way too common for people in the US to look at the final options in a general election and act as if that's the entire system, and even people who don't do that see things like Kang & Kodos and are fooled into this misleading consensus reality as if it's real, even when they know better.
What happened this year is that we've basically already lost. But there's still another choice to make, after most of the choices have already been made, and while this one isn't the biggest one, it does still matter. So we're figuring out how to make the best of it, after we've already lost on the more important parts of the process for MA's next governor.
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Date: 2014-11-03 18:21 (UTC)What happened this year is that we've basically already lost. But there's still another choice to make, after most of the choices have already been made, and while this one isn't the biggest one, it does still matter. So we're figuring out how to make the best of it, after we've already lost on the more important parts of the process for MA's next governor.