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2016 Postmortem

EL34x4

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1. "Electorally speaking, Democrats live in the wrong places."

Reply to jonno99 (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2017, 08:02 PM

Jan 2017

If a million Los Angelenos spread out to Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida, Democrats would never lose another national election again.

And they'd still win California by 3 million votes.

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Democrats: Left in the Lurch. [View all] jonno99 Jan 2017 OP

"Electorally speaking, Democrats live in the wrong places." EL34x4 Jan 2017 #1

Excellent point. However, I'm inclined to go with the "black swan" argument. This jonno99 Jan 2017 #2

We ignore our mistakes at our peril. We never thought we'd lose to Bush twice* and we did. dionysus Jan 2017 #4

I disagree rpannier Jan 2017 #6

Very interesting piece! dionysus Jan 2017 #3

young liberal voters that normaly would have voted dem, voted green or didnt vote at all - why ? factfinder_77 Jan 2017 #5

We got pounded in 2016 rpannier Jan 2017 #7

yeah, so what was up with those senate races? Is that Hillary's fault? Fast Walker 52 Jan 2017 #8

Ah, but the pounding was not from the GOP alone. Demsrule86 Jan 2017 #11

Yep - it seems there was a lot of so-called progressives who jonno99 Jan 2017 #12

No coat tails for Democrats in Congress and state houses andym Jan 2017 #9

It is not uncommon for the party holding the presidency to lose the House during the midterms. Demsrule86 Jan 2017 #10