Post mortem thread. Why did we lose?

[sabrina 1]

304. If you look closely at what happened in this election, when ISSUES were on the ballot

Liberal/Democratic issues WON. It was the Dem Representatives, supposedly of those issues, who lost. What does that say? To me it confirms that voters across the board support the Democratic Party platform. But certainly Democratic voters WANT their Reps to FIGHT for those issues. That they lost is a simple statement of fact, people voted, when they could, for the issues we support as Democrats, they did not vote for those claiming to represent those issues.

My main point was that this is NOT a Conservative country mostly as was stated above. It isn't just polls that prove that, it is voters as we saw in this election.

But clearly the voters do not believe that Dems are standing up for those issues.

Will the Dem Party FINALLY get it and STOP trying to be more Republican than Republicans, or will they continue to 'compromise' on major issues, like SS, like the Keystone Pipeline, like the Environment (another area where voters, when it was on the ballot, voted FOR the Environment), like Wall St corruption as they have been doing for years now?

My guess is that we are going to see the Keystone Pipeline supported by both parties. That SS will be 'back on the table' and the Chained CPI will pass, with Dems NOW claiming, 'we couldn't help it, Repubs are in charge'.

I think we do mostly agree. Now, how do we get Democrats willing to FIGHT for the people's best interests, into power, and start removing those who either are too out of touch with the people to care what they want, care more about their jobs, or those who are actually working for Corporate America?

It would help if the party was not split as it is now. United we CAN win, we lost because we have not been united.