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Showing Original Post only (View all)What the hell happened to the Democrats downballot?! [View all]
2008 seemed so hopeful. Then 2010 came, and so much of the Democratic bench in Congress and at the state and local levels was wiped out. My question is simply, WHY?
Something went horribly, horribly wrong, and it's only gotten worse since.
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I'm sure he would of liked to have continued to be DNC Chair or appointed HHS Secretary
liskddksil
Jun 2017
#19
You are right leftof cool. His 50 state strategy worked, fight for every state, and recognize some
still_one
Jun 2017
#26
1) Democrats get excited by presidential elections. Midterms are booooring. Or something...
Hekate
Jun 2017
#3
I've been one of the Democrats who hasn't always voted in midterms. Never again!
Buckeye_Democrat
Jun 2017
#10
I think many people won't self-identify as liberal because it's become a "bad word"...
Buckeye_Democrat
Jun 2017
#18
Newt Gingrich wrote the alt-vocabulary list & he was media-savvy. Look to Newt & the long game. nt
Hekate
Jun 2017
#20
Lazy Democrats thinking only Presidential Elections count! I've seen them, I've known them. And,
RKP5637
Jun 2017
#6
The politics of healthcare, recovery and successful GOP messaging, and gerrymandering.
SaschaHM
Jun 2017
#8
because the party leadership since 2008 has not cared about local/state offices and so
msongs
Jun 2017
#15
They voted for healthcare and to save the economy. They were voted out because of that
emulatorloo
Jun 2017
#16
"I'm going to keep telling people this until it finally fucking penetrates."
LenaBaby61
Jun 2017
#29