Post mortem thread. Why did we lose?

[Warren DeMontague]

282. Several reasons, combined:

1) The DNC has been on autopilot. We need new leadership.

2) Too many candidates ran away from Obama's signature issue, they should have embraced and articulated a defense of the ACA.

3) Standard, predictable 2nd term midterm anti-WH incumbency, a disadvantageous senate map going in, AND the GOP reaped the benefits of the 2010 redistricting in a big way.

4) Obama is not blameless. Whether or not Americans are stupid panic ninnies around something like Ebola, lecturing them and calling them ill-informed morons for expressing fear over a lethal, communicable disease was not the way to go. And the image projected for two solid months was a combination of patronizing happy-talk combined with blatant ineptness. Every time Tom Freiden opened his mouth in September, our poll numbers dropped.

5) Calling groups of people idiots, marginalizing them, insulting them, wagging your finger at them, telling them to "check your privilege", etc. is NOT the way to win elections.

6) Speaking of winning elections, Gun Control is simply and purely a loser issue at the federal level. All other considerations aside, our party should drop it.

7) There is a strong socially libertarian streak afoot in the electorate, and our party ignores it at its own electoral peril. 4 STATES now, have legalized -fully- marijuana. Where the fuck is our national leadership on this issue? Debbie Wasserman Schultz thinks the problem is, we're not arresting enough brownie-eating cancer grannies.

Maybe if someone finds a Biblical Passage about it, Hillary Clinton will decide to talk about pot. She sure has no problem staking out positions on the issues that really matter to the American people, like whether or not the Bible is the bestest book ever!




Solutions? Honestly, I think we need to find new leaders, preferably from West of the Mississippi. That quote that Einstein didn't actually say about insanity and doing the same shit over and over, applies. Maybe our "inevitable" leaders need to be swapped out for some new ones. Or bring back Howard Dean.



The Beltway conventional wisdom goobers don't seem to have a fucking clue how to do anything, except send 20 hyperbolic emails a day.