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Barack Obama

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

16. They won because we ran terrible campaigns.

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 11:45 AM

Jan 2015

You can't gerrymander the Senate. The "districts" are the states.

What you can do is run a terrible campaign, where you flee from all of your accomplishments and pretend you are "not as bad" as the other candidate. Leads to a terrible turnout among people who would have voted for you, because "not as bad" does not work anymore. We've seen too many results of that.

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Watch: Obama Levels With Republicans, Red State Crowd Goes Wild [View all] freshwest Jan 2015 OP

Red State~ Red State~ sheshe2 Jan 2015 #1

Notice how loudly the GOP clings to their last remaining threads. arcane1 Jan 2015 #2

Yes, David Duke is threatening to run for office for a second time. GOP again? freshwest Jan 2015 #3

Lol~ sheshe2 Jan 2015 #6

Believing: freshwest Jan 2015 #4

Brava! sheshe2 Jan 2015 #7

Believing, and I will leave it at that. sheshe2 Jan 2015 #12

The could be after all the only way they won the senate and managed to keep the house cstanleytech Jan 2015 #8

They can not do anyting, they cant go anywhere without lieing. sheshe2 Jan 2015 #10

They won because we ran terrible campaigns. jeff47 Jan 2015 #16

"Are they in their death throes, I sure as hell hope so." Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 #9

It takes time. sheshe2 Jan 2015 #11

As always, I take my hat off to you, sir! Aristus Jan 2015 #5

K & R SunSeeker Jan 2015 #13

this makes me smile BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2015 #14

So there's an entire collective audience of Red Staters who don't think he's the Anti-Christ? M Kitt Jan 2015 #15

Those cynical "journalists" & Pundits who think him naive, SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2015 #17

I was there. Major Hogwash Feb 2015 #18

awesome, major hogwash! hopemountain Feb 2015 #19

It was indeed a great day. Major Hogwash Feb 2015 #20

I would just like to add this here. Major Hogwash Feb 2015 #21