In the article they call them "legacy candidates" - that the Democratic Party believed (or it was all that they had) their connection to the past would bring out the necessary votes to push them to victory. Fail. Now the Left wants to try this "legacy" thing on the national stage with Hillary. They will close ranks and do everything and anything to get her elected.
David Horowitz (June 2000) wrote a great piece that still holds up today:
Understood....my contention is that ‘legacy’ group is essentially dead - literally.
Now I do realize that coordinated DNC activities (Ritual Voodoo, if you will) can resurrect some of these fine dead people and make them register and vote - even in alphabetical order, but that sort of activity grows harder to accomplish with a state government so controlled by Republicans now. :0)
One thing I didn’t see mentioned about the “legacy candidates” is how the demographic shift in this country doesn’t help them; too few voters recall the original candidates (in either a positive or negative light) to have an impact.
DeBlasio’s opponent for NYC mayor was a white RINO who tried to harken back to the days of the Dinkins administration (early 90s) to scare people into voting for him; in the postmortem analysis, it was determined that probably half the current voters weren’t living in the city in those dark days (pardon the pun). The whites he was trying to appeal to had already fled NYC, and the message went nowhere...