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[Midwestern Democrat]

73. I would trade for where we were in 1988 from where we are today in a second (and I was there).

Here is where the Democratic party stood in the rest of the races on election day 1988:

Senate: 55 D 45 R
House: 260 D 175 R
Governors: 28 D 22 R
State Legislatures: Democratic control of both Houses: 29 states
Republican control of both Houses: 9 states (including officially non-partisan Nebraska)
Split control of the two Houses: 12 states


The party today is in its weakest state since the 1920s - and that was a party that was virtually destroyed by the Civil War 60 years earlier and (with the exception of two brief upswings - Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson) was put in the penalty box until the Great Depression. Something has really gone wrong and we'd better start fixing it.