Here’s why that’s happening.
1. GOP running bad candidates to replace retiring officials.
2. GOP not supporting *good* candidates because they’re not part of the ‘old boys’ club’ or ‘aren’t civil’ or ‘too combative’ or ‘making too many waves.’ See Cuccinelli in Virginia; they wanted milquetoasts instead. Thanks to the VA GOP running off what they viewed as ‘undesirable’ candidates, the GOP there lost the state.
3. GOP incumbent stupid/corrupt/ineffective and is therefore disliked in local area, yet the GOP doesn’t replace him in the primaries with another candidate, instead blindly supporting an incumbent who everyone hates and will lose. And they know they will lose.
4. GOP taking voters for granted. See Ted Cruz - he almost lost because he initially didn’t campaign, then ran a crap low energy campaign doing things like charging for yard signs. Only reason he won was because Trump came and bailed him out. THERE ARE NO SAFE VOTES ANY MORE, and the GOP still doesn’t realize that in many places. Take your voters for granted and they don’t show up. Or they vote for the candidate that doesn’t, even if they have a D after their name, just to teach the idiot a lesson.
5. Being out of touch, leading to bad messaging and imagery. Unfortunately a lot of local and state GOP organizations (and no few units at the national level) are run by old (whether physically or mentally) idiots who think that everything is the same as it was in the 60s-80s and they just need to run a few ads in the newspaper and it’ll be fine. No knowledge of new media, no interest in recent pop culture, don’t want to have either - and they end up producing incredibly tone-deaf marketing/campaign materials that not only don’t work but are soundly mocked. Campaigning has seriously changed since 1980 but a lot of people in the GOP organization *still* don’t realize it.
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Again though- even our worst candidates are leagues better than democrats ever were- and the proof is decades of democrats running cities into the ground- We’re talking about red states- I can’t understand how a republican or independent for that matter, could think that a democrat would make sense as gov or senator or whatever-
Lesser of 2 evils- if that is the only choice- in order to preserve everything we’ve fought for-