2016 Postmortem

vi5

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30. Oh god, I can't possibly like this post enough...

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 02:41 PM

Dec 2016

This is and was our biggest mistake. Instead of focusing just on the presidency over everything else for 4 years, we need to worry about every race, in every single place. Dog Catcher in Kenosha, State Senator in North Carolina, Governer of Arizona, up through the house seat in District 3 of New Hampshire, up to the Senate Seat in Michigan.

I was one of the first to complain about how much power we gave the blue dogs and the DLC candidates, but the fact is that I know now that having them in our fold is the price we have to pay for controlling more elements and bodies of our government. I still think that we also need our progressive leaders to stand up to them and not cede too much control, but the 50 state strategy is the 50 state strategy and we need a DNC that understands this and puts every penny, every resource available into that strategy every single election, every single year.

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What a bad ground game looks like. [View all] hellofromreddit Dec 2016 OP

The gerrymandering probably went a long way to give us this result. shraby Dec 2016 #1

I don't think that is the case here MichMan Dec 2016 #4

How so? Yonnie3 Dec 2016 #5

it helps determine who counts the votes, who suppresses the votes, who gets to vote KittyWampus Dec 2016 #12

I see. Yonnie3 Dec 2016 #16

If Republican legislatures vote to require photo id and then close DMV's in minority neighborhoods- KittyWampus Dec 2016 #21

Please she got more votes then any other candidate in history except for Obama in 2008 Botany Dec 2016 #2

Bangs forehead against wall ... sighs. KPN Dec 2016 #6

Unless the Polls are hacked... pbmus Dec 2016 #9

Oh yeah, that's why WE didn't win this election over the least liked, least favorable KPN Dec 2016 #23

We can't have an honest post mortem here. EL34x4 Dec 2016 #10

I get so many jury requests on posts discussing why Clinton lost. Ace Rothstein Dec 2016 #20

Good for you! Right on! KPN Dec 2016 #24

Yup BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #28

I'll give it a try then Yupster Dec 2016 #11

She talked a ton about jobs, voters liked her better on jobs and economics according to post bettyellen Dec 2016 #19

Then we need to talk about why that message failed to reach voters. hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #27

The media key saying she didn't talk about jobs- they lied about her, made the bettyellen Dec 2016 #29

I certainly didn't hear her complaints about the media when they were ignoring Sanders. hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #31

Because they would have laughed them off- she often complained they would not give time to issues bettyellen Dec 2016 #32

I don't see what repeating debunked nonsense will accomplish. hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #35

Yup! KPN Dec 2016 #25

I suppose that matters if the plan is to excuse our way back into power. hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #17

This! KPN Dec 2016 #26

Has anyone undertaken to make similar maps of patterns from past elections? JHB Dec 2016 #3

I looked around a little, but I couldn't find any hellofromreddit Dec 2016 #13

The biggest thing we have going for us Turbineguy Dec 2016 #7

It must have been fun naming the place names on the map Yupster Dec 2016 #8

The big mistake... kentuck Dec 2016 #14

That is true. Willie Pep Dec 2016 #18

Definitely true. The president is the head of 1 of HeartachesNhangovers Dec 2016 #22

Oh god, I can't possibly like this post enough... vi5 Dec 2016 #30

Inaccurate Picture sagesnow Dec 2016 #15

I like this quote realmirage Dec 2016 #33

There is a difference between preaching to the choir HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #34