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In reply to the discussion: REPUBLICANS: "My God, what (an effing) mess---A loss is what the GOP's political class NOW expects." [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)Seriously, look at the data.
Yes the right wing noise machine caused a lot of trouble for us, but the conservadems constantly undercut anything
I have volunteered for many campaigns as well and the ones that seem to do well do a good job at messaging progressive ideals and values. The ones that play soft on the language, run to the right, or remain aloof and milquetoast on the issues are the ones that either fail horribly or elect the kind of Democrats that you later end up regretting.
But that is, again, anecdotal. But really it isn't much more anecdotal than the suggestions you made. Yes, financing elections is a problem but to me that means that it is that systemt that MUST be corrected to improve our system of elections.
All you seem to have is conventional wisdom borrowed from the very pundit class that usually is all too busy running candidates to the illusory center and ignoring the progressive left of this country.
Look at who lost. Look at the data.