> It seems a little peevish to suggest that Democrats didn't have a daring enough approach to assigning campaign resources. It could've been the political equivalent of early optimization.
I'm still overall very happy with yesterday's results, but...
It isn't just the holding back of resources, they also played a lot of political distancing games because they didn't like the fact that Angie Nixon joined the DSA to help shore up her ability to mobilize.
There are absolutely Democrats who would rather lose ground to Republicans than give the left any breathing room. They can't even pretend that isn't true anymore after the Haley Stevens meltdown.
These games almost certainly cost the Democrats a Florida senate seat, and likely the Florida governorship too as collateral damage. Not the end of the world since so many other races turned out well and I expect to see Angie Nixon again in 2028 since the seat she was vying for wasn't a full 6 year term (it was for the 2 year remainder of Marco Rubio's vacated seat), but still disappointing that they dropped the ball there.