What happened? The Democrats ran a great candidate and again the Republicans ran a crappy one. It was like John Kennedy against Nixon. We surely could have come up with a better candidate. I’m getting sick of running half-assed candidates. They had someone young, good-looking, who speaks well and was former military. We should have won, easy.
Nope, what happened is the GOP ran a pre Trump campaign in a post Trump world.
This thing should have never been closer than 8 points...
But Saccone, the RNCC, and all the other GOPe pacs decided that instead of following Trumps lead on how to win in the Rust Belt they just ran the same old tired campaigns that they have been for 15+ years.
Literally every ad could have been for any generic R candidate with the same message they had used for at least 15 years.
Not ONCE did they put forth a message to appeal to the I and D Trump voters who gave him this area... not one damned time...
Just same old tired red meat for the base...
The thing they had to do from day one to win was make sure those I and D voters who went Trump were voted and showed up... and they DIDN’T EVEN BOTHER TO TRY TO GET THEM OR TARGET THEIR MESSAGE TO THEM, NOT ONCE!!!!
The incompetence in this campaign up and down the GOPe/PACS etc is just along the level of Hillary not campaigning in Michigan and WI etc... It was that big of a level of incompetence!
And if the messaging for the fall is what they tried here, expect the GOP to handily lose the house..
The only messaging they offered was red meat to the already reliable R voter, nothing else.... it was STUPID & INCOMPETENT on every level.
Yes saccone wasn’t great, but he still should have easily won this district with the proper message... and they never EVER even tried to deliver it.