2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI wonder what would happen if we Dems just ignored all the Republican...
...drama? Just gave it no AIR...let it waste away through lack of attention?
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)It's the vast Republican noise machine, including, but by no means limited to Fox.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)And look where that got us.
Puzzler
(2,505 posts)... is gets amplified 1,000-fold by the media.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Think back to previous elections when the candidate, who decided to be above the feces slinging, lost.
msongs
(67,541 posts)Permanut
(5,736 posts)Not only that, the soap opera is so entertaining!
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Like small children, they will up the noise until we "the adults" step in.
KT2000
(20,618 posts)that is what they report on. If Dems were to sit it out - as has been the strategy in previous elections, we would lose.
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)and yet they persist.
No really we need to stay vigilant, keep track of them and shine light on their evil at every opportunity.
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