though it seems like, depending on where you are, you're either blessed or cursed. Me. I live in Indiana (a more progressive bastion of it but still) and the Democratic Party is in tatters. I believe that we currently have a single statewide elected official (US Senator Joe Donnelly) and maybe one or two Democratic US House members(?) and Republicans have held the Governor's Mansion since 2005 and the Republicans have a supermajority in both the House and Senate, so the Democrats are completely ignored. Our Democratic Party infrastructure in the state is seemingly nonexistent. In fact, even when we win, we lose. The last Democratic State Superintendent basically got most of her power taken away and given to Mike Pence and Republicans in the Legislature also removed some of the Democratic City-Council control in Indianapolis. Indiana went Blue in 2008 for Barack Obama, which is about the only thing that anything remotely positive that has happened in recent years, though it was obvious a "fluke" since we went right back to voting Republican in 2012. We are about as Red of state as most of the South and I have no idea how we crawl out of this red morass. We had a pretty good run of control back in the 1990's with a string of Democratic governors (Evan Bayh, Frank O'Bannon) and partial control of the Legislature (I don't think we have ever controlled the Senate but we've had the House a few times). When O'Bannon died, it seems like the Indiana Democratic Party died with him. We have Voter ID here too, which I'm sure doesn't help matters. For the moment, it seems that things are pretty hopeless here for the foreseeable future.
How are things like where you are?
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