Good day all. In the two weeks since the Democrats were basically destroyed at the polls, they have been wondering who was behind the wheel of the the bus that just ran them over, stopped, backed up and hit them again.
It wasn’t just Felonia von Pantsuit that was crushed in the election, the down ticket races were, mostly, a complete and utter repudiation of all things Progressive. Now the Democrats are trying to figure out what went wrong, and as usual, they are missing the target. Here are a few details on this from Yahoo News:
Still sifting through the wreckage of the Nov. 8 election, Democratic leaders nationwide are struggling to find a new message to claw back support and avoid years in the political wilderness. Not only do Republicans control the White House and both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, they now hold 33 governor’s offices.
New England, long considered reliably Democratic, is a prime example of the party’s demise.
Republican Phil Scott won in Vermont over Democrat Sue Minter who was criticized, like presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, for failing to develop an economic message that resonated with voters worried about good-paying jobs. Considered a liberal bastion, Vermont has a tradition of sometimes choosing a Republican governor to keep one party from having too much control.
Vermont is rather odd. However, the new governor probably won’t be able to do much, but we’ll see. The last one was all set to go full communist, trying to institute a single payer medical insurance system. The Legislature, in a fit of rationality, ran the numbers and quickly saw total economic collapse and killed the plan.
Elsewhere, Republican Chris Sununu will replace a Democratic governor in New Hampshire while Maine and Massachusetts already have Republican governors.
Massachusetts is still a Democrat state and the governor makes Mittens Romney look like Pat Buchanan. New Hampshire is a different case. We’ve had a Republican legislature for a while, but a moonbat for a governor who thwarted the will of the people on a regular basis. The GOP picked up the governorship and increased their numbers in the legislature. However, on the federal level, we have four moonbats in Congress. Two in the house and two in the senate.
“We lost the governorship of freaking Vermont,” lamented Washington-based Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. “We didn’t just lose an election. This was a national rebuke. This was biblical.”
Yes, it was. I doubt you understand what happened. In fact, I doubt you will ever understand what happened. I think it will be amusing as you try and assign blame though.
Republicans also command 32 state legislatures and have full control — meaning they hold the governor’s office and both legislative chambers — in 24 states, including swing states such as Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. When President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, they controlled just nine.
And who was in office at the federal level back then? Why it was Barack Obama! And who had absolute majorities in the house and senate back then? Why it was the Democrats! And what happened to change all that? Why it would be Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Obamacare, just to name a few things.
“There are more Republicans at the state legislative level than there have ever been,” said Tim Storey, an analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Republicans scored a major coup when they seized the Senate in traditionally liberal Minnesota, giving it full control of the legislature, and they gained full control of next-door Iowa.
That was surprising. I suspect one reason was their current governor, Mark “The Moonbat” Dayton.
“The party’s message, structure and apparatus are broken,” said Kofinis, who was chief of staff to moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. “We haven’t acknowledged it for years because we had the White House.”
The subtle hints that the Democrats might, just possibly, have a problem were ignored. Those hints? How about the crushing defeat in the 2010 midterm election that decisively flipped the house of Representatives? Oh, you missed that one didn’t you? After all, you had Barack Obama and he was wonderful! Why he crushed Romney in 2012, showing how good the Democrats are.
During Obama’s tenure, Democrats lost over 800 state legislative seats, at least 13 governorships and both houses of Congress. Party insiders are reluctant to blame the popular Obama but cite plenty of reasons for the decline.
Yes, it’s never good to criticize someone who has been known to abuse his authority and have people arrested, audited and sued for displeasing him. Now what do they think the actual problem might be?
These include a muddled economic message; an overemphasis on emerging demographic groups such as minorities and millennial at the expense of white voters; a perception the party is elitist and aligned with Wall Street; a reluctance to embrace the progressive populism of Senator Bernie Sanders, the former presidential hopeful; and failure to field strong candidates in key states.
There is an emerging consensus, they add, that the party has been too focused on winning national races and has not invested enough in local campaigns, along with a grudging admission that Republicans have done a better job of competing on the ground.
Still not understanding what the reasons were I see. So what do the Democrats plan on doing?
Democrats are working to recover and looking ahead to governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia next year to make up lost ground. Governor’s offices have become crucial for another reason: Republican governors signed voter suppression measures in states such as North Carolina that Democrats believe damaged turnout.
Ahh yes, the old Democrat bugaboo, “Voter Suppression”. What they mean is removing ineligible people from the voting rolls. You know, the usual Democrat voters: Illegal Aliens, Resident Legal Aliens and their largest pool of voters, the deceased.
Sununu has said that as one of his first acts as governor in New Hampshire, he would like to end the state’s practice of allowing same-day voter registration.
I have personally seen “Questionable” people heading to the registration table on election day. I can’t say definitively that these people were illegally registering, but I am…suspicious.
As with redistricting, it is another lever of power that Republicans can wield to make sure they remain in the majority for a long time.
What? You mean making sure that someone who shows up to vote is actually a citizen, a resident and alive? Why those dirty Republicans!!
Obama has said he will actively support a new party initiative, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, that seeks to restore state-level Democratic power.
And I’m sure he will be ever so helpful. The Democrats seem to be confusing Obama’s “Personal popularity” with his being politically popular. He’s not. His policies, which are about to be blown out of the water, set on fire, the ashes bulldozed and salt poured on them, were never popular. Thinking he’s going to be an asset is going to backfire big time.
When Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, ran the Democratic National Committee, he adopted a “50-state strategy,” investing funds in every state, even ones perceived to be hostile to Democrats, in an effort to identify viable candidates for local office.
While Dean’s plan was not the sole reason, Democrats had election successes in 2006 and 2008. When Dean left the DNC, his strategy faded and the party’s fortunes at the state level began to decline.
And once again, the Democrats missed the mark. Why did they do so well in 2006 and 2008? One very big reason. George W. Bush. His political incompetence, foreign policy stupidity and domestic ineptitude turned off a large number of voters. The only reason he won a second term was terrorism and an even more inept idiot as an opponent, John “Ketchup Boy” Kerry. Donald Trump is not G.W. Bush.
Dean is a candidate to run the DNC again and has said he will revive the strategy if elected to the post.
“What is happening is a result of decades of smart organizing by conservatives who have very simply poured resources, talent and energy into creating an infrastructure at the state, local, and now national level,” said Bill Lofy, a long-time Democratic strategist in Vermont.
As usual, he missed the “Elephant in the room”, and that is the policies the Democrats have been pushing for the last 20+ years. Those policies have wrecked the economy, trashed our reputation overseas, and brought the nation to the verge of collapse and civil war. The recent election showed just how corrupt and out of touch the Democrats are.
They rigged the primary to keep Comrade Bernie Sanders off the ticket in favor of an outright criminal, Felonia von Pantsuit, aka Hillary Clinton. By rights, Comrade Bernie should have won the Democrat Primary and then be completely blown out November 8th. Instead, the Democrats put Felonia on the ticket and ran their usual campaign of socialism, communism, totalitarianism and blaming everything on Republicans.
It’s obvious that they aren’t going to learn the lessons of the last few elections, which is just fine with me. If President Trump manages to turn things around and people perceive things as getting better? Stick the fork in, the Democrats are done for at least a generation.
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