was 'left vs right' giving way to 'populist vs establishment' the message of the 2016 election?

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10. I was following Teachout's race very closely and can attest to this.

She was doing extremely well in a rural district and I still think if Democrats are serious about winning back some of these rural districts, they should listen to what she was talking about. She had a lot of ads about

- expanding broadband to rural areas to help businesses and making their communities competitive
- decreasing unnecessary regulations for small businesses which are pushed by big corporations to squeeze out competition
- explaining how big agriculture is screwing the small farms and how we need local processing
- speaking out on the destructive provisions in the TPP and being one of the few to go into detail while still keeping it pretty short
- speaking out against common core and connecting that to special interest money
- framing Citizens United as drowning out the voices of regular folk- which plays into the "rigged system" message
- she framed green energy as a money/tourism issue, saying fracking and oil barges would drive tourists away meaning loss of money in their communities
- Since she challenged Andrew Cuomo she also had the privilege of pitching herself as an "independent voice" who would take on her own party if need be. WE NEED TO RUN MORE CANDIDATES WHO CAN DO THIS.

There were other issues as well but those were the big ones. Polls had her tied leading up to the election but since she's an Elizabeth Warren type and the billionaires/hedgefunders were arguably most scared of her out of all the house candidates, they poured money into her campaign slamming her. Her opponent didn't even need to run negative ads against her, the superPACs did all the work for him.