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2020 Autopsies for Both Parties. One lesson is that hostility motivates voters as much as enthusiasm does.
Wall Street Journal ^ | December 23, 2020 | Karl Rove

Posted on 12/24/2020 6:13:04 AM PST by karpov

Parties often conduct autopsies after losing elections. Since Democrats and Republicans alike gained and lost so much this difficult and bizarre year, both need sober after-action reviews.

Democrats won the White House but not the Senate. They also suffered surprising and significant losses in the House. Republicans have the upper hand in keeping the Senate, gained impressively in the House, kept their redistricting edge by turning back a well-funded Democratic effort to flip state legislatures. But they forfeited the presidency.

So what lessons can each party take from 2020?

One is that money can’t buy victory. Democrats outspent Republicans in every seriously contested Senate race yet flipped only Arizona and Colorado. Democrats showered $132.7 million on South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison against Sen. Lindsey Graham, who raised $109.3 million. Mr. Graham won by 10 points. Kentucky’s Amy McGrath, a Marine veteran, received $96.3 million for her bid against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose bankroll was $69.9 million. He won by 19.6 points.

Money also can’t buy a compelling message. In many races, Democrats had little more to say than that their Republicans opponents didn’t care about people with pre-existing conditions and were lackeys for President Trump.

This fell especially flat when Republicans explained and defended some of Mr. Trump’s policies in ways the president never did, pointing to results from tax cuts, regulatory relief, strong defense and energy independence. Maintaining public safety, standing up to adversaries abroad and socialism at home, and conveying that America was abiding by trade rules while other countries weren’t—all were winning issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


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1 posted on 12/24/2020 6:13:04 AM PST by karpov
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To: All

He have become a country led by hate. We will not last long.


2 posted on 12/24/2020 6:16:17 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: karpov

I just emailed my rep and two senators from Florida. I urged them to stand fast with Trump on the election and to support his veto of the covid bill. I’d urge everyone to do the same, even if your representatives are Democrats.


3 posted on 12/24/2020 6:17:57 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: karpov

Why do these s0-called republicans editorials NEVER once address the issue of the stolen election? Because they are the cave-in, make no waves at any cost RINOs! This will NEVER work in republicans favor and if this election fraud is not dealt with at THIS time, there will soon be no other party but the democrats bc they’ll have their well-funded fraud machines at their disposal for every other election!


4 posted on 12/24/2020 6:18:46 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: karpov

Good article.


5 posted on 12/24/2020 6:20:23 AM PST by nwrep
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To: karpov

Tokyo Rove at it again...

If there was very little “ticket splitting” and all these Pubbies won big in the House with less money in the Senate...?

How did Biden win by 7 Million votes...?


6 posted on 12/24/2020 6:22:51 AM PST by MCEscherHammer
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To: newnhdad

He have become a country led by hate. We will not last long.

We’re already dead. We just don’t know it yet.


7 posted on 12/24/2020 6:25:07 AM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: karpov
"Men are bound together not so much by the sharing of bread as by the sharing of enemies" .... Cormac McCarthy in Blood Meridian.
8 posted on 12/24/2020 6:25:50 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: karpov
Campaign donations are simply a way to recycle money back to candidates and their campaign staffs, bribe media owners with useless electronic ads and use money to “buy” chairmanships in Congress.

An old fashion way to get elected is to actually campaign Both democRATs and RINOs are as lazy as they are dishonest!

9 posted on 12/24/2020 6:31:35 AM PST by texican01
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To: newnhdad

Someone needs to tell Bush’s brain that Biden did not win the election.

Communist China hacked our elections to install their puppet. Is Rove on the Chinese payroll?


10 posted on 12/24/2020 6:31:52 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: karpov

No autopsy can be done without first doing a very complete and thorough investigation as to the cause of death.

At this point we only have allegations of a crime being committed against the 74 million people who voted for Trump.

It has been seven weeks since the election and NO government official, REPUBLICAND OR DEMOCRAT, has investigated any of the allegations of voter fraud.

Karl ‘sweep it under the rug’ Rove can take his fancy ‘autopsy’ word and shove it.


11 posted on 12/24/2020 6:33:36 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: karpov

Karl Rove is useless, this whole article is a complete joke because Republicans DID NOT LOSE.

We won the election by a landslide, then the corrupt Democrats cheated.

FUKR


12 posted on 12/24/2020 6:41:18 AM PST by stockpirate (The DOJ and FBI are completely corrupt, do not expect them to arrest anyone that is on the left.)
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To: nwrep

How in hell can it be a good article when we didn’t lose the election, it was stolen from us.


13 posted on 12/24/2020 6:42:16 AM PST by stockpirate (The DOJ and FBI are completely corrupt, do not expect them to arrest anyone that is on the left.)
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To: karpov

Just sent all three an email. Of course, the US rep voted with the democrats!


14 posted on 12/24/2020 7:22:30 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: karpov

Karl Rove the retard.


15 posted on 12/24/2020 7:48:15 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

It these lies get any bigger the thieves will start believing them. This article says nothing about the election being stolen which shows me whoever wrote is a lying piece of toilet fodder.


16 posted on 12/24/2020 10:12:20 AM PST by Cowgirl
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To: Shery

We are witnessing the gop/republican party in self destruct mode. The end is near and they don’t have a clue about how to change course.


17 posted on 12/24/2020 10:30:34 AM PST by Colo9250
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To: karpov
One is that money can’t buy victory.

Well it just did, if you spend it on the right thing, like vote counters, ballot harvesters or programmers.

18 posted on 12/24/2020 1:23:09 PM PST by itsahoot (The ability to read auto correct is necessary to read my posts understanding them is another matter.)
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