How many on the progressive wing of the Democratic party were duped by Putin?.

[Ken Burch]

239. Bernie's campaign was not a help to Trump and Putin.

If Putin wanted to meddle, he could have meddled just as effectively if Bernie hadn't run.

I'm fine with people being alert to any threats to democracy...but we can't win in '18 and '20 by focusing on calling out Putin.

As to our policies...a big part of the problem was that the campaign ads largely didn't MENTION our policies and platform-in a year when everything in our platform was popular-largely didn't tell voters about what we were offering. When they mentioned issues, the ads largely focused on reproductive choice-an important issue, but far from the only issue on which voters were progressive-and on attacking Trump and we knew from the GOP primaries that Trump could never be beaten by attack ads.

If none of the attack ads in the fall worked, starting the attack ads earlier wouldn't have worked.

I WANTED Hillary to end up in the White House as much as you did. Everything I posted about how the fall campaign was going was because I was worried-rightly-that it was slipping away and that she wasn't being well-served by what was being done.
It doesn't help her OR us to pretend that the campaign run on her behalf was flawless and should be repeated in exactly the same way next time. And from what I've read Hillary doesn't call on us to take that view.

We're going to have a different candidate in 2020...probably someone from a younger generation...and that candidate will be most likely to win if they run a policy-based campaign.

Issues matter and how you communicate with voters matter.