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In reply to the discussion: 47% of BASE see Hillary as UNFAVORABLE! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)to do so in the mid terms.
The base won everything for them in 2008.
Since then they have destroyed all that work and lost us the Senate and the House by stubbornly refusing to listen to what the voters have been telling them.
Polls don't tell us anything much at this point, but ELECTIONS do.
Eg in the last mid terms, progressives mobilized to support Progressive candidates, incumbents and a few new candidates. They WON those seats.
Had it not been for those Dems working so hard to hold on to those seats, the losses would have been even greater.
What they did not do was to work for Third Way candidates, the ones the Leadership were supporting.
Either the party stops moving to the right each time they lose an election, or it's going to keep happening.
Blaming the voters doesn't win elections. LISTENING to them does.