The electoral vote today showed why Democrats lose

[zipplewrath]

82. Your analysis isn't consistent with the larger trends

Your analysis rests entirely upon the outcome of one race. But it doesn't explain all the races lost in the last 8 years or more. It doesn't explain the lost House or Senate.

We've been losing, and continue to lose, because the message that has been crafted by candidates such as Clinton, and the larger Third Way, conservative wing of the party isn't playing anymore. Really, it hasn't played in 16 years. Gore was moving away from it for goodness sakes. Obama won running to the left of that message. Some of us have been warning for years that we were losing the lower middle class. "Losing" doesn't mean the majority, it means that minority/plurality that wins elections in specific states. Obama just lectured that you have to go into the "red" counties and work to get a minority of those voters, to help you win the whole state. You can try to blame this on Bernie or whomever, but the bottom line is that the larger message loses in too many places.

And Obama said recently that part of the democratic weakness is the tendency to focus on national/international issues and not work nearly as much at the state level. There is a lot of truth in that. Unfortunately, I think Obama has had a hand in that problem that he won't admit.