The senate seats we lost were from states that were red until Obama got elected, and now they’re just flipping back. I just don’t believe this was a massive repudiation of Democratic ideals. Maybe Obama, but not our polices — we passed gun control and minimum wage raises wherever they were on the ballot. They even voted to ban fracking in Denton, Texas!
If anything, just the opposite. I think some voters are very, very angry over the economy and took out their frustrations in the voting booth. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s a bad thing to lose all those seats. But it doesn’t mean Democrats will never win again.
And then we have the older voters, who voted because of Benghazi Ebola Terrorist Immigrants! We were never going to get those.
If it was repudiation. It was by Dems who are sick of the kabuki. Why vote when your choice is between two Republicans. And don’t get me started on 1%’s media.
I live in a solidly blue state, but even I feel like sitting out elections when the only choices are Republican and Republican-lite. But come voting day, I just have to vote. The same impulse that makes me throw in my two cents worth in the comments section of obscure liberal blogs. I guess it’s just venting. But until the Dems do some sort of major shake up this see-saw of Rs&Ds dancing the center ever rightward will go on indefinitely. I can’t understand why the progressive wing of the Dems are not calling for the heads of Reid, Pelosi, WassermanShultz and Steve Israel. Definitely, nothing will change in the next 2 years. And if the Dems are moderately successfull in ’16, which seems likely, they will not change their ways then either.
What does failed leadership look like? Come January more Republicans will be in the House of Representatives than at any time since 1928. So either John Boner is a political genius or Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid, Steve Israel and Wassermen-Schultz are failed Democratic leaders. If these failed leaders cared more about the people that they are suppose to be representing and less about their own political careers then they would resign en mass for the good of the party. But they don’t so they won’t. If falls to the Progressives then to see to it that the Democratic Party cleans house.