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Home Front: Politix
Review Set By Democrats After Election Losses
2014-11-09
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Democrats are planning an extensive review of what went wrong in the 2014 and 2010 elections, hoping to find ways to translate success in presidential campaigns into future midterm contests.

A party committee will conduct a "top-to-bottom assessment" of the Democrats' performance in recent midterm elections and try to determine why they have struggled to turn out its core voters in nonpresidential elections.

"It's apparent that there are increasingly two separate electorates: a midterm electorate and a presidential electorate. We win one and we don't seem to be able to win the other," said Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish...
, who leads the Democratic National Committee, in an interview Saturday. "That is a fundamental dynamic that we have to change."
Right. Good observation, Debbie Wasserman. If there're two separate electorates then you don't have to change anything you're doing, just wait for the next election to roll around and power will be yours.
Democrats suffered heavy losses in last week's elections, ceding Senate control to the Republicans and surrendering more seats in the already GOP-majority House as Republicans ran against an unpopular President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
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Posted by:Fred

#19  I am waiting for Reid, Pelosi and Maria Shriver to call me.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664   2014-11-09 20:23  

#18  The dems are greedy and evil.

the pubs are greedy and stupid.

The pubs have one chance to stop the free fall of the national govt, then it will be over for the world as we know it.

I would recommend that we individuals keep stockpiling and making contingency plans for a bankrupt govt. I would not depend on the pubs to pull a rabbit out of their collective a$$es, based on history.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-11-09 19:40  

#17  No, I hope they keep her, John.

And I hope she doubles down on stupid. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-09 18:48  

#16  We win one and we don't seem to be able to win the other," said Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

The DNC might consider dumping Little Miss Debbie as a first step. But on the other hand, I don't really give a flip about the Democratic Party--they are the party of evil.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-11-09 17:52  

#15  The problem with the dems is that they can not simply tell the truth that they are for higher taxes, bigger GIVERnment, more regulation and more sacrifice on every worker.... They need a liar who can evoke emotion. Their rising stars are politicians who lied, raised taxes and still got re-elected.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-11-09 15:38  

#14  They're not going to change a damn thing; this is just ass covering.

Take part of Obama's interview w/ that old fossil Bob Scheiffer:

“I think there are times, there’s no doubt about it where i think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction. So there is a failure of politics that we have to improve on.”

Schieffer asked Obama which criticisms of his administration were “valid.”

“I just mentioned one,” Obama said.

In other words, the voters recent rejection of his politics is the real failure here. Color me surprised...
Posted by: Raj   2014-11-09 14:33  

#13  use your thieves, you take government money, but do nothing to earn it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-11-09 13:05  

#12  A 2 minute analysis: First mid term elections have voters voting that are paying attention to the candidates and issues. The presidential elections are a spectacle type event and draws people to vote for no other reason than being part of it, sort of like two free concerts where they could care less who is playing as long as they are at the concert with the biggest crowd and its a popular event, mob mentality defined. This also explains why so much money was spent on this election. Trying to hype up the election to get the "follower" vote. It did not work, there was no mob to define cool. The folks that voted in this election are the voters our politicians should be paying attention to, these are the voters that pay attention to what's going on and not necessarily to the hype. If a party, either side, were to listen to this base voter, they would have them working for them and solid during the presidential cycle. They, both parties need to pay attention here, is will save money, drive votes, and build a more solid platform.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2014-11-09 11:56  

#11  I'm usually dissuaded from using the word greed, however, in this partys case, they have an insatiable appetite for power.
Posted by: newc   2014-11-09 11:52  

#10  Good points, newc.

I'd add you're flat-out evil greedy bastards.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-09 11:40  

#9  1. You did not present enough voter fraud in the election. You never were a majority party in the US. You probably never will be.
2. You are Godless Pagans that worship nothing but government. Most people are skeptical of government.
3. You hold absolutely no expert power in government. you fill all positions with incompetent staffers and marxist Utopian idiots that never held a job before.
4. Everything you know is the opposite of the truth and reality.
5. All your issues are fake issues. You attack cardboard targets while the world burns around you. You drive like Mr magoo.
6. You are dirty, nasty, liars about everything.
7. You put the nastiest people in the highest offices in the land.
8. Your whole party is flat out EVIL.
Posted by: newc   2014-11-09 11:32  

#8  DWS should be kept on at the DNC. The GOP should even offer to pay her salary
Posted by: Frank G   2014-11-09 10:05  

#7  Well Democrats, West Virginia should be easy. In 2009 I was at a conference at one of their "U"s. At lunch I asked the professors what businesses were profitable in the state as it still looked pretty poor. They replied coal, government and crystal meth. Obama removed coal from the mix and replaced it with nothing.

Posted by: 3dc   2014-11-09 08:56  

#6  Their real problems started in 1968 in Chicago and came to a head in the nomination of McGovern.

It took a while for all the old FDR types to die off so there was still a viable base. Now they have reached the point where the only thing that keeps Democrats relevant are the takers at the top and bottom, crony capitalists (aka fascists) and the welfare hoard.

Oh yeah, with the support of the Stupid Party and their coterie of beak-dippers.

Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-09 08:54  

#5  As #2 posted, how about paying attention to largely unemployed and under employed blue collar white males that used to make up one of your most significant voting blocks fifty years ago. Their issues are not of those of the urban privileged white female upper-middle class (see-Wendy Davis). Just a thought.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-11-09 08:41  

#4  "top-to-bottom assessment"


The problem was that your TOP was in your BOTTOM.

Now, that was easy wasn't it?
Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-09 07:39  

#3  Here's a point to ponder for them. How come every time I see Obama, Reid, Pelosi, or Wasserman-Schulz on my television, I wanna put my foot through it?
Feel free to bring that up at the Big Meeting...
Posted by: tu3031   2014-11-09 02:10  

#2  You could start by listening to your constituents, and not just the fringe.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2014-11-09 01:21  

#1  Democrats are planning an extensive review of what went wrong in the 2014 and 2010 elections

Please permit to assist your review. You are foking Dems! That's what went wrong, and what has been going wrong for about the last 80 years.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-09 01:21  

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