They were reliable gerrymandered GOP districts that democrats lost by 16- 31 points less than a year ago.
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They were reliable gerrymandered GOP districts that democrats lost by 16- 31 points less than a year ago.
A GOP district that has gone red since 1979 being lost by 40 points 10 years ago,to being lost by 21 points last year to being lost by 4 points this week
A district that Democrats said they would have to win by 6 points in the recent special election if their strategy involving large money and anti-Trump messaging would be considered successful -- and could be used as a "winning" template in 2018.
The objective truth is that the Democratic strategy failed totally so they reverted to talking points that the margin of defeat is so much less than the previous election and therefore "we" are successful -- which any reasonable person recognizes as pure bullshiat.
The bottom line is that the Democrats need to find a consistent nationwide message that addresses concerns about immigration, jobs, crime, etc. rather than identity politics and anti-Trump moaning.
There is no winning template for flipping a gerrymandered congressional seat race 21 points in less than a year.I've said before democrats were stupid for making a big deal out of these races they had little to no chance to win.
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You obviously are happy with the results, so keep playing "chess".
Democrats won by 3 million more votes last year and the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections.More Americans agree with the democrat message than the republican message.The EC ,gerrymandering,low democrat voter turnout etc are bigger problems than the message.
Look up incumbency, the same reason Republicans lost all those seats in 2006 and 2008.
And these 'special' elections are to replace Republicans in very safe districts where they won by 20-30 points in 2016
I will agree that gerrymandering is an issue and that all states should have independent commissions that draw election district boundaries every 10 years.
However I will strongly disagree with you that the Democrats have a cohesive, meaningful nationwide message that addresses the concerns of voters. Only drawing votes via identity politics is not a strategy that will work for the Democratic party in upcoming cycles to improve their national level election results.
Three cheers!