Posted on 11/08/2014 2:39:09 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are planning an extensive review of what went wrong in the 2014 and 2010 elections, hoping to find ways to translate success in presidential campaigns into future midterm contests.
A party committee will conduct a "top-to-bottom assessment" of the Democrats' performance in recent midterm elections and try to determine why they have struggled to turn out its core voters in nonpresidential elections.
"It's apparent that there are increasingly two separate electorates: a midterm electorate and a presidential electorate. We win one and we don't seem to be able to win the other,"
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We did a poor job of getting our message out.
OR,
Republicans did a better job of getting their message out.
LOL!
This will be known as the “how can we fool ‘em next” meeting.
I think all politicians ought to examine the DC mental illness called “we’ve outgrown the constitution.”
There aren't really two separate electorates. However, the election of a President may be accomplished by ignoring much of the one that there is and concentrating efforts on heavily populated urban areas. This will be exacerbated by the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, wherein a candidate that wins, say, Delaware, will find his state's electoral votes given to the winner of the popular vote in states in which he or she does not reside. It is an idea particularly popular with Democrats.
This was not a "mistake" on the part of the Founders, they knew they wouldn't have a country if New York's popular vote made law in Georgia and to hell with the Georgians. The Georgians had to agree to ratify the Constitution, and so their rights and sovereignty had to be respected.
When that becomes no longer the case, the very same issue will crop up just as it did in 1787. Only an idiot intent on totalitarian rule would fail to recognize this.
With the Republicans now in charge of so many state legislatures, I would expect a lot of states that had voted to enter that compact to vote to leave it.
Any member state may withdraw from this agreement, except that a withdrawal occurring six months or less before the end of a President’s term shall not become effective until a President or Vice President shall have been qualified to serve the next term.
The difficulty is that this compact has no force of law, and so it's just hot air, at least at the moment.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the enthusiasm for this thing tends to be among those people who support a heavily executive Presidency. In short, they want to elect a king.
Congress has to approve all interstate compacts, and Congress hasn’t approved this. Nor will it, at least as of January 3, 2015.
Have Reince Priebus write an autopsy for them.
Precisely. As I said, no force of law. And I suspect voluntary obedience is likely to founder when someone like Delaware does go Republican and finds its electoral votes placed elsewhere because New York had decided differently. It will not be pleasant at that point but the President will have been elected in the meantime.
Dear Dems,
Here is your Review Sheet for our big “Election 2014 Review”. Study it at length and try to remember all the pertinent points:
DEM REVIEW SHEET:
“Our Marxist, Racist, morally-bankrupt Policies SUCK and the American people aren’t buying into them anymore”.
Respectfully submitted,
Democratic National Committee
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