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46. Ya, we did real well

Jim Jordan is the chair of the Judiciary Committee.

We carried the popular vote in 2000 and 2016. As a result, we have 5 right wing Supreme Court Justices who will be there for a generation.

We could have won the house. How is it that we didn't know that Boebart was vulnerable until after the election? How is it that we did so well that the Chairman of the NDCC lost his own seat in New York? How could we have lost an incumbent's seat to Santos in New York.

how did we lose 4 winnable seats in California?

Elections have consequences and the only way those consequences work in our favor is to win elections, not just do "well".

Bashing Republicans on this site is preaching to the choir. Finding ways to win elections through constructive debate and making the changes necessary to win those elections is my priority.

this is what I did for 35 years in Massachusetts politics and the results of the efforts by a lot of people who think like me are obvious. I would like to share some of those ideas here. When we lost to Scott Brown in a Special, we assessed what went wrong and corrected it. One of the problems was that a lot of my Union Brothers switched sides and voted wrong. We spent two years correcting that mistake. Elizabeth Warren ran with substantial union backing and we spent time and money educating our members and turning them out. When we lose, we figure out the mistake and correct it. We don't bull shit each other with "oh well, we did good". We fix it and win.

That was the team I was on.

You can't find a Republican elected official in Massachusetts with a divining rod. That's the results we need nationwide.