More than that, there's a built in assumption that Democrats need to adopt more right-leaning policies to win. In every election there's a flood of "What Candidate X Needs to do to Win My Vote" articles that boil down to "She Needs to be a Republican." We never see the reverse.More than that, there's a built in assumption that Democrats need to adopt more right-leaning policies to win. In every election there's a flood of "What Candidate X Needs to do to Win My Vote" articles that boil down to "She Needs to be a Republican." We never see the reverse.