Well liberal members of this board - I hope you're happy

[adieu]

120. So while we're inspecting our navels...

There are two competing tactics.

One is: we didn't go hard left enough and had pablum for candidates, and there were nothing for liberals or independents to latch onto, so they either stayed away or voted for the more headstrong GOP candidate. So, we should go hard and get some real progressive liberals out there to provide a fresh voice and a fresh choice.

The second is: we must work towards a consensus and support candidates that all members of the Democratic Party can decently rally being. No one is going to be the perfect candidate, so everyone knows that there is something lacking from the chosen candidate, but let's try to unite behind the chosen one regardless.

Either tactic can work, depending on where, who the opponent is, how the local electorate (local at the district to the state level) are with regards to partisanship and fervor.

But for today, we must sift through the destruction and see why some candidates lost and why some candidates won. It's a bit too early to tell, but it will be worthwhile to do some forensics on the election results, do some polling, do some boots on the ground hard questions to determine what were the causes. I doubt there is one or even many countrywide cause(s). I think there are different reasons in different regions. Some just may not be ready for a female leader, no matter what. Some didn't like the milquetoast nature of the candidate, some didn't like the overly partisan liberalness of the candidate. You can't apply the solutions in one state to another. But you can apply the methodology of analysis and reasoning to all cases.