[dp0622]

I KNOW dems can’t just appeal to their base and win.

I think that’s a hard way to win for anybody today.

You need to appeal to the base and then give that other 4 or 5 percent a reason to come out for you, like Trump did.

Or maybe i’m wrong :)

[Dilbert San Diego]

The Dems have a tough Senate map in 2018.

They have to defend about 25 Senate seats in 2018, but the Republicans have only about 10 up for re-election.

A number of Democrats up for re-election are in states won by Trump.

And, for unknown reasons, historically, voter turnout is lower in the mid term elections among Democrat inclined voters.

Add it up, and the Democrats seem likely to lose a few Senate seats. They may, just maybe, pick up a few House seats, but unlikely enough to tip the balance there.

[Fedora]

Instead, the firms urged Democrats to emphasize making college more affordable and reducing debt, as well as job skills training, according to an internal DCCC memo.

Trump could easily co-opt this plank of their platform by pursuing the same goals through private means, such as encouraging employers to provide tuition reimbursement and job skills training, which many are doing already anyway. If the Democrats tone down Bernie's free college tuition snake oil to something more realistic, they won't be able to differentiate themselves.

[Dilbert San Diego]

The Democrats are sinking into the quicksand of transgender bathrooms and pushing global warming and other issues, which make their liberal base happy, but fall flat in “middle America”. That’s their basic problem.

[Billthedrill]

...the white working class bloc that has drifted to the Republicans.

Not "drifted" but "been ejected". It shouldn't take a professional political consultant to conclude that "we hate you, you irredeemable racist privileged White Supremacist creeps, now vote for us" is not going to be greeted happily. And apparently it's a surprise as well that the working class is focused on jobs, not whether the men in them get to dress up like fairy princesses. This is not difficult, and one can only wonder if, in the great Lurch To The Left that the Democrats have indulged themselves in, they've left whatever remained of their brains behind.

[Grampa Dave]

The party’s own operatives and data crunchers have run through the numbers based on focus groups, and Democrats are still heading for the electoral ditch. They still have yet to mount an effective attack against the Trump White House. The ones they’ve fired off aren’t working. The Democratic agenda is falling flat with voters outside of their base.

Meanwhile Trump's 62+ million voters and the independent voters with a brain and a work ethic are saying no to the 24/7 anti Trump bs. They are agreeing with James Woods cited below!:

James Woods said it best on Twitter (@realjameswoods) recently: "I've never witnessed such hatred for a man, who is willing to work for free to make his beloved country a better place. It is pathological!"