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[WillyT]

GOP Strategist: Democrats Blundered by Hiding Barack Obama
Zeke J Miller - Time
Updated: Nov. 6, 2014 2:56 PM

Republican operatives still relishing their Senate election victory offered some unlikely criticism of their Democratic opponents’ campaigns Thursday.

“They sidelined the president,” Rob Collins, the Executive Director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) told reporters at a backslapping post-election briefing. Instead, Collins argued, Democrats shouldn’t have been scared off by Republican attempts to tie Obama to their candidates.

Collins said NRSC polling had long identified the economy as the issues voters cared about most, and one where Democrats stood to gain. “We felt that that was their best message and they sidelined their best messenger,” he said. Collins added that in many states, Democratic candidates had positive stories to tell. “In Colorado, unemployment is 5.1 percent and they never talked about it,” he added.

“They were so focused on independents that they forgot they had a base,” Collins said of Democratic Senate candidates. “They left their base behind. They became Republican-lite.”

More: http://time.com/3565624/republican-senate-obama-election/#3565624/republican-senate-obama-election/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Indeed, my dear WillyT....I discuss that here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025769753

[RobertEarl]

2. Look

Citizens United allowed the fascists to blame everything thing on Obama 24/7 with billions of dollars of ads on TV. They cornered Obama.

They won. We didn't lose so much as we were bombarded. All we can do now is make sure that the fascists see they wasted all that money because we will filibuster all their new laws the congress tries to pass for the next two years.

[zeemike]

11. "we will filibuster all their new laws"

You mean like we did under Bush?...right.

If you are a Dem congressman and GE wants a law and you filibuster it, guess who does not get campaign money, but gets money spent against them...they know how to deal with trouble makers.

[Man from Pickens]

3. Before you buy into it too much

This is the same guy who was Cantor's chief of staff and helped lead him to an unprecedented, historic defeat.

You would never take his opinion seriously unless it confirmed your biases.

[FSogol]

4. Game, set, thread.

[bemildred]

9. As a certified loser, he would know. nt

[Fred Sanders]

21. He is also right, despite his horrible credentials. Asking black and minorites to vote for a party

whose many candidates rejected the black man leading their party....did not see the apathy for the Democratic Party coming?

But the corporate media had a ton to do with it also, never had a chance to discuss the issues, no chance to deflect the BIG lie of a failing economy and " plunging" job approval, lies covered by by Fearbola eating up all the airtime.....America got royally fucked by both the media and these fucking "candidates" too fucking stupid to run on the economy and give full throttle credit to Obama and get out the huge pool of voters waiting for some fucking passion from the other side.

Fucking glad they lost, the ones that mostly won embraced Obama, notice that? The ones that lost were not so great anyway, just a number needed to keep the score close.

Embrace socialism fully or bend over for the fascists.

Long overdue Democratic Party war, the Republican one did them no fucking damage I can see.

[WillyT]

22. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

[bananas]

5. "They left their base behind. They became Republican-lite."

Bazinga!

[MineralMan]

6. People ran from Bill Clinton, too.

The result of that is well known to all of us. It's a mistake to shrug off a Democratic President when running as a Democrat. It is always a mistake.

[Raine1967]

16. In particular: Al Gore.

I never understood that. I remember liking Gore, but he ran from Clinton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/us/once-close-to-clinton-gore-keeps-a-distance.html <--- NYT times archive in case people choose to dispute this sad fact.

It's a very interesting read all around some 14 years out.

[MineralMan]

17. Yes, in particular.

That was a serious mistake, in my opinion. We've all paid dearly for it.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

7. It just goes to prove..

United we Stand! Divided we fall.

[bemildred]

8. DNC needs to be cleaned out. nt

[Old Nick]

10. Rec

Kick inherent.

[ReRe]

12. K&R

I bet there was allot of knee-slapping and high-fiving going on on election night. The anti-Obama scheme and propaganda cooked up 6 years ago finally hit pay dirt. And evidently people swallowed it whole. That's why the Polling group$ & M$M started prepping the public two weeks ahead of time that the Democrats were going down. I never once fell for it. But surprise, surprise, surprise. Isn't that funny, how they can read the tea leaves so well?
No coincidence there!

[Doctor_J]

13. They ARE Republican light

The dc dems are in favor of school privatization, fracking, drilling, private prisons, heritage care, "entitlement reform, and so on. THIS WAS NOT A PROBLEM WITH THE CAMPAIGN. It IS A PROBLEM WITH THE PARTY's IDENTITY

[frylock]

14. ell ohh ell

brilliant strategy, idiots.

[Zorra]

15. Rec nt

[rurallib]

18. We may need advice, but not from Republicans

I think the best advice we can get comes from folks like FDR, HST, JFK and even LBJ.

No, Repugs do not have our best interests at heart.

[Rex]

19. But but but...I've been assured by Third Way advocates that

we lost because lazy liberals decided to stay home.

[Whiskeytide]

20. Jon Stewart's take was spot on ...

... spending a lot of time and money courting people who already don't like you and are not going to vote for you anyway - damn dumb if you ask me.