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In reply to the discussion: So it's my imagination that people are PAID to disrupt us and convince us NOT to vote? [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Despite being the most expensive midterm in history, the turnout was lower than it has been in seventy years? Polling indicated that people were interested in issues, they wanted the candidates to talk about the economy. They wanted the candidates to discuss what is going on and what plans for the future the candidates held. They did not want propaganda, and they did not want assurances that the water running down their back was rain.
What was the core of the Democratic campaign plan? We suck, but we suck less than the Republicans. We had polling that showed the Republicans were were barely more popular than Herpes. But we didn't read the next line in the poll. We were only a couple points more popular than the Republicans. To most of the voters it came down to the ones who wanted to discuss the issues.
Republicans addressed the economy by opposing the job killing insert things here. Job Killing Minimum wage. Job killing Obamacare. They would have opposed the Job Killing Daylight Savings time if they could have gotten away with it.
We ran on the War on Women. Senator Udall was known as Senator Uterus. We didn't inspire people to vote for us, we ran a half assed campaign waiting, at first patiently, and then desperately for the Republicans to obligingly give us a Real Rape quote to campaign against. They learned from their defeats in 2012. We didn't learn.