2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumObama loyalists plot Trump resistance
Alumni of the Obama White House spent days mourning Trump's win. Now they're ready to fight.Source: Politico, by Sarah Wheaton
Over the past 10 years, Obama alumni have spread throughout the government, the advocacy world, and influential parts of the private sector, including at Google and Facebook. That means theres a lot diverse talent to harness.
Obama is still a powerful force for the generation that grew up working for him.
Hes our Jesus Christ. Were crazy, said Jaff, not without self-awareness. Its 10 years later, and were still obsessed.
Read it at: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-loyalists-trump-resistance-231642
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)DCCC as well as the DSCC fully grasp what has happened,nothing will change.
Phone banked for six days straight,here is what I heard,your message is not reaching the affected persons. You are talking at the people and not to the people. Bingo!!!
Until we change the message delivery system,same crap results,just another day.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)and have 'yuge' rallies!
Somehow that works.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)contact with the disenfranchised period. Feed back tells the real story,that and we did a lousy job of feet on the ground campaign. Volunteerism only goes so far,needed more paid Canvassers. Been there and done my best.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I'm a Democrat in Alabama. Before that, Oklahoma. Before that, Texas.
I've been disenfranchised by the Electoral College my entire life!
Did the Trump have a ground game? It wasn't reported. Did the RNC? Nothing reported.
We could have and should have done more is always the lament of the losers.
Now - what are we going to do about it?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)you can kiss your ass good bye. Comcast and Fox dictated the daily news cycle. While that was happening,Bannon and Gang used their network of Wingers to promote false News Stories via Facebook and Twitter.
As a Volunteer at our local Dem office,I was hearing this message form the paid Staffers,where is our response to these false stories.
Said this from the get go when Hillary out did Bernie in the primaries,this is Hillary's to lose and Manhatten did not listen to the people in the field. Been doing this since 1958 and was taken back by the lack of fast response to the Republican garbage been thrown out to the press on a minute by minute basis. During Mr.Obama's runs,there was a response team in place to knock false or miss leading stories down.
When you lose the News Cycles,you are toast,Trump did something or said something to his pals at Breitbart or Fox and that controlled dominated the day.
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)keep this in mind. The fundamentals of what Obama contributed to the last 8 years hasn't changed, but turnout in those states was down, and that is what the DNC need to work on from now until 2018 and beyond.