Amanda Litman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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Running for office sucks.
It is miserable.
It is hard.
Your life is going to be under a microscope.
You need to want to do it anyway.
We should not convince people to run.
We should open the door to them.
And then if they say yes, help them walk through it.
We shouldn't push them through it.
I think it assumes that we know who can win, which sometimes will make a good guess.
But like you can come up with dozens of examples of people who would never have been asked to run.
Barack Obama being another like a top of the list.
Who would have asked the one term state senator, two term state senator, a con law professor to run for higher office?
No one.
who would have asked someone like lauren underwood a nurse who was a black woman in a majority white district to run for office who would have asked aoc who would have asked you know ayanna presley these leaders who are truly amazing public like figures in our party who you probably wouldn't have picked if you were going to start from scratch but who because they care because they had problems they want to solve and the offices that they saw gave them power to solve it
decided to get in the fight.
So I think it is so risk averse.
And we are at a moment where our party can't afford to be risk averse.
So I would say Votin for Something has endorsed more than 4,000 candidates over the last 10 years.
I believe we've had to rescind fewer than a dozen of those endorsements in the last decade.
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