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Originally Posted by kane
I would say, Hillary. The reason is because of how the Democratic primary went down. Hillary and the DNC fucked Bernie Sanders and in doing so they alienated a lot of young voters. When you look at the demographic breakdown of the election Trump did well where you would expect him to and he did a little better than expected with Latino voters and middle class working voters. Hillary did much of what was expected, but she tanked with young voters. When Obama left office he was (and still is) very popular with Democrats, but Hillary is not. With the things that have happened in the last few weeks, it looks like Hillary is hellbent on still being involved with the party and with politics. She is toxic for the party, at least right now, whereas Obama is still seen as the leader of the party.
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I think Obama might have. Reason being he allowed the Democrats to get complacent and think they could totally get away from having an actual message and plan to present to the voters. Obama was such a rare, skilled Politician, but he is the exception. Now I am not sure I blame Obama for that himself. If you can get by on your skills vs the message and platform, so be it.
Hillary obviously didn't help things and had no platform at all. And her recent its everyone but me to blame is quite troubling.
The democrats are now entering the one year mark until 2018 elections are in full swing, and they better pivot hard and come up with a party platform that will speak to the voters. Russia and we hate Trump, will get you back your current seats, and a handful of others maybe, but it will not get you back the House. They get a solid blue collar message that is unified by next spring? Then they could quite easily roll in 2018.
Ditch the identity politics. Dial the environment rhetoric down by half. Talk about real jobs. About real school reform. About real solutions to inner city issues. About real solutions on how to start to get people off the public dole and into the workforce again. Get back to what the Democratic party was.