Posted on 11/22/2016 6:24:07 AM PST by mandaladon
(Reuters) - Still sifting through the wreckage of the Nov. 8 election, Democratic leaders nationwide are struggling to find a new message to claw back support and avoid years in the political wilderness.
Not only do Republicans control the White House and both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, they now hold 33 governors offices.
New England, long considered reliably Democratic, is a prime example of the party's demise.
Republican Phil Scott won in Vermont over Democrat Sue Minter who was criticized, like presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, for failing to develop an economic message that resonated with voters worried about good-paying jobs.
Considered a liberal bastion, Vermont has a tradition of sometimes choosing a Republican governor to keep one party from having too much control.
Elsewhere, Republican Chris Sununu will replace a Democratic governor in New Hampshire while Maine and Massachusetts already have Republican governors.
We lost the governorship of freaking Vermont, lamented Washington-based Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. We didnt just lose an election. This was a national rebuke. This was biblical.
Republicans also command 32 state legislatures and have full control -- meaning they hold the governors office and both legislative chambers -- in 24 states, including swing states such as Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. When President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, they controlled just nine.
There are more Republicans at the state legislative level than there have ever been, said Tim Storey, an analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Republicans scored a major coup when they seized the Senate in traditionally liberal Minnesota, giving it full control of the legislature, and they gained full control of next-door Iowa.
The partys message, structure and apparatus are broken, said Kofinis, who was chief of staff to moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
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They could stop worshiping satan...
Dear Dems...you might want to put some ice on that. Sore losers.
The answer is to go even harder Left. At least that’s what the idiots think....
Anyone want to add anything to help the Democrats appear more mainstream? They wont listen anyway.
Stop listening to the globalists. We are a republic of states but I guess you saw that in the election. We are governed by a constitution and our own laws. Quit trying to make America into a hateful 3rd world nation. Quit pampering yourselves and start earning your keep.
And knowing most Dems like I do - that answer will involve even stronger cries of racism, more LGBTQ stuff and smashing up inner cities.
I really hope they elect Keith Ellison as DNC chair—that’s the ticket!
Dear Democrats,
Thank you so much for incessantly lecturing the Republicans on how to conduct their affairs.
Now that you’ve turned your party to shambles, might I make a few suggestions?
Stop the race baiting.
Stop the race baiting.
Stop the name calling.
Stop demonizing your opponents.
Stop the race baiting.
Learn how to make rational arguments.
Honestly, people are just getting tired of your bullshit.
Roll Tide!!!
We lost the governorship of freaking Vermont, lamented Washington-based Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. We didnt just lose an election. This was a national rebuke. This was biblical.
Best election ever.
And every one of those states have huge illegal alien populations. Wonder if there is correlation?
The cards are all played out.
race card
gender card
class card
etc...
I agree with that. I know NV and NM and CA for sure have this problem.
IMHO, our government, controlled by progressives, have bought the votes of millions of voters. It goes well beyond the 47% simply receiving a Fed.gov check, that Romney spoke about - rather, our elites are organized around access to (and distribution of) government debt and fiat money issued by the Federal Reserve. This includes people as diverse as Bill Ayers and Lloyd Blankfein all part of this system of progressive distribution of government debt.
... of Obama and his pathetic anti-American marxist ideology.
I don’t think a lot of people realize that Republicans have been winning for a while Trump is just the cherry on top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktx8YfHkWU0
At about 1:16:00 in this video, it was early on election night, November 8. Commentator Ben Domenech observed, “The biggest problem Republicans face is that nobody trusts them to lead anymore.”
The House, the Senate, the White House, most of the governorships. LOL.
This is why it is so important to drain the swamp, at the local and national level. We can just warm their seats until they come back. While we have the chance, we need to cut off their money spigots they have set up to route taxpayer money to themselves. Then they won't have the money to fight back. Go Scott Walker on them.
The Democrat-Media-Soros “all in” effort to destroy America was the Pickett’s Charge of modern American politics, and with similar results.
We lost the governorship of freaking Vermont, lamented Washington-based Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. We didnt just lose an election. This was a national rebuke. This was biblical.
Three words...Get A Job.
Yes there is a connection; some illegal aliens vote and almost all who do no doubt vote democrat.
But the population of democrat-voting legal immigrants (and their first generation children) is much larger. Unending mass legal immigration is the much bigger demographic threat to conservatism. Drastically reducing legal immigration and ending this era of mass immigration is just as important to achieve as are the actions against illegal immigration like border security, deportations, and cracking down on sanctuary cities, maybe more so.
Of course the two are very much connected thanks in large part to the disaster of birthright citizenship and anchor babies. That needs to be abolished too.
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