Our last three successful Dem presidential candidates had one thing in common

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30. You Do Realize..........

............that the Republicans haven't LEGITIMATELY won a Presidential election in 30 years, right? This is the thought that keeps coming back to me every time I hear hand-wringing Democrats declare that we need to make wholesale changes to our political philosophy or do this or do that in order to "keep up" with the Republicans. If you have to cheat to win, your philosophy is no good to begin with. We need to stop blaming ourselves and get to work changing the rules that allow them to cheat these elections.

Case in point: Wisconsin. Immediately after the election was over, we went into self-blaming mode, talking about how we could have "better reached Wisconsin voters," or how Hillary should have spent more time campaigning there, or how we could have changed our message, or whatever. Now it comes out that even Republicans have admitted that it was the voter suppression that swung Wisconsin.

I realize that introspection and self-blaming is kind of what we do as a Party, but we need to stop all that and start figuring out how to prevent these treasonous A-holes from STEALING elections. And it needs to start the MINUTE we take back the Congress in November. When we were in control in 2008, we were content to sit on our hands and in-fight about the perfect way to do things while getting nothing done. That can't happen this time around. Screw the appearance of bipartisanship and ram through an agenda that will ACTUALLY improve things. They certainly have no problem doing it to us for laws that make things WORSE.