Discussion on Morning Joe: Dems lost over 1,000 offices over Obamacare...

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14. 910 seats lost by Democrats were in state legislatures

not the US Congress which voted on the Affordable Care Act.

Other seats lost were secretaries of state, attorneys general, and governorships -not just the US Congress which voted on the Affordable Care Act.

One reason for the massive losses may be that Democrats are less likely than Republicans to focus on non-presidential elections-which some commentators have pointed out, including Mara Liasson of NPR have pointed out:

There is Presidential Election America, where turnout is diverse. The electorate is younger, browner, more single, more secular — more Democratic. Then there's Midterm Election America, where the electorate is older, whiter, more rural, more church-going — in other words, more Republican. What's great for Republicans and bad for Democrats is that the vast majority of the governorships and state legislative seats are elected in the midterms.

https://www.npr.org/2016/03/04/469052020/the-democratic-party-got-crushed-during-the-obama-presidency-heres-why

We ran the numbers, and Roberts’ claim checks out. Using data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, Democrats have lost 910 seats in statehouses across the country since 2009.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jan/25/cokie-roberts/have-democrats-lost-900-seats-state-legislatures-o/

The above reference to Roberts is Cokie Roberts of NPR

The facts may be inconvenient but the false narratives are much worse in their effect upon my life and that of others-we end up addressing false issues and not fixing real problems while our personal situations and that of the county, and the world worsen.

If you have evidence that the passage of the Affordable Care Act was the reason the massive loss of non-Congressional seats I am certainly interested.

I believe facing facts to be essential to survival of human rights and democracy.