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Ninga

(8,272 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:06 PM Nov 2020

I slept in a bit, only to be woken by my Mr anxiously quoting morning joe about the Democrats

losing House of Representatives seats blah blah blah...

My eyes flew open wide, I jumped up and said BASTA! ENOUGH!

NOT ONE DEMOCRATIC candidate was able to run a ground game so necessary to inform voters!
The Democrats honored the COVID social restrictions needed to help protect all people.
No door knocking.
No house parties
No rally’s held in halls
No booths at fairs, and other public gatherings
No ward meetings
No conventions
No hand shaking

I will NOT allow the other side to define perceived “faults” to diminish our hard fought win.
And, I am waiting for the media to start writing about how the trumpets need to understand the Biden voters.

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I slept in a bit, only to be woken by my Mr anxiously quoting morning joe about the Democrats (Original Post) Ninga Nov 2020 OP
They totally pissed me off too! crud Nov 2020 #1
Well said! IMO we did AWESOME considering we followed the RULES... WePurrsevere Nov 2020 #2
Same here Nictuku Nov 2020 #3
The last sentence is crucial BSdetect Nov 2020 #4
Fighting among my network is starting. I am pasting in my analysis to shut it down. Ninga Nov 2020 #5
Sorry about your rant, but no. brooklynite Nov 2020 #6
So name recognition was not in play? were the House candidates crappy? I really don't know. Ninga Nov 2020 #7

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
2. Well said! IMO we did AWESOME considering we followed the RULES...
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:18 PM
Nov 2020

and, once again, the GOP didn't. They put politics over the health of the American people during a friggin pandemic.

Nictuku

(3,587 posts)
3. Same here
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:18 PM
Nov 2020

.... pissed me off that he was attacking democrats so harshly, when the counting is not even done yet.

I may have to reconsider my (early) morning routine.

I still feel that it would have been the blue wave expressed in the polls were it not for all the voter suppression, post office sabotage, crazy redistricting, limiting polling places, machines that don't work, no paper trail and vote flipping, social media propaganda, fraudulent robo calls.... and all the rest. It is amazing that democrats are even close to winning.

So shut up Joe. The democrats were right to put as much money as they could into the Senate. (sigh), without a majority in the senate I feel my ulcer coming back.

Ninga

(8,272 posts)
5. Fighting among my network is starting. I am pasting in my analysis to shut it down.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 12:57 PM
Nov 2020

Some are just jonesing for a progressive v others fight, saying House losses were because the candidates were corporate Democrats.

brooklynite

(94,331 posts)
6. Sorry about your rant, but no.
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 01:01 PM
Nov 2020

We won the Pennsylvania Presidential race without knocking on doors. We lost 3 House races.

We won the New York Presidential race without knocking on doors. We lost 6 House races.

We won the North Carolina Governors race without knocking on doors. We lost the Presidential and Senate races.

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