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Originally Posted by Axeman
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.
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I agree 100%. I have said a few times I thought Hillary's main problem during the election was while Trump was talking about jobs and helping make middle-class blue collar worker's lives better, Hillary was talking about Black Lives Matters and who pees in what bathroom. She and many of the Democrats just seemed out of touch with the average middle-class family which has been their bread and butter for a long time. Add in the fact that young voters who tend to skew Democrat were angry wth her and the party (not angry enough to vote Trump, but angry enough to either vote 3rd party or not vote at all) and it made for a perfect storm of ugliness for her.
My prediction is that the Republicans will hold on to the Senate in 2018 as the map makes it nearly impossible for the Dems to take it back. In the House I think the Dems will gain seats, but I'm not sure if they can retake it. If, as you say, they can come up with a unified message focusing on jobs, healthcare, and things that are important to middle-class voters they could take back the House.