2016 Postmortem

Willie Pep

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23. Liberal policies are popular but we still lose elections.

Wed Jan 4, 2017, 10:31 PM

Jan 2017

As others have mentioned, voter suppression and gerrymandering account for a good chunk of GOP success. But we do have a lot of work to do convincing people that we are going to fight and win victories for them, especially on kitchen table issues. We can fight and beat the Republicans here because their agenda is bad for most of the country.

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Guardian: Liberals risk becoming a permanent minority in America [View all] arenean Jan 2017 OP

Normalizing election fraud, just like the rest of them. ucrdem Jan 2017 #1

+1, most of the post this week stright up ignore election fraud and blame Clinton and everyone else uponit7771 Jan 2017 #8

Even with the voter suppression Wabbajack_ Jan 2017 #17

Not true... Demsrule86 Jan 2017 #18

This is false on its face... Straight up Clinton bashing... That's not how voter suppression works uponit7771 Jan 2017 #21

The two are not mutually exclusive. There was voter suppression and Clinton's team failed KittyWampus Jan 2017 #25

Thank you for this. We let them frame the fucking narrative and it drives me nuts. LaydeeBug Jan 2017 #10

This is what happens brutus smith Jan 2017 #26

Good post, ucr! Thank you! Cha Jan 2017 #13

Thanks Cha! ucrdem Jan 2017 #15

Oh this greenwald that said there was no Russian hacking.. and we all Cha Jan 2017 #16

I guess when we lose the presidency by three million votes, and lose Congressional seats... Orsino Jan 2017 #2

The electoral college win was based on roughly 100,000 votes. Hardly the death of liberalism- delisen Jan 2017 #3

So liberalism is dead (or on its way) SFnomad Jan 2017 #4

I'm not buying it. Joe941 Jan 2017 #5

Democrats and liberals have a LOT of work to do NewJeffCT Jan 2017 #6

I suspect that a lot of angry white red-state voters won't be here next time Vogon_Glory Jan 2017 #28

Actually New York and Pennsylvania will most likely lose at least one electoral vote yeoman6987 Jan 2017 #32

Beg pardon, but I didn't say Mississippi Vogon_Glory Jan 2017 #37

Yes, 4 months ago we were sure the GOP was dead for good, now the Democratic Party is. Warren DeMontague Jan 2017 #7

Heard this bullshit before when the dems lost three Presidential elections in a row bigdarryl Jan 2017 #9

The nightmare is Trump peels off the private sector unions AngryAmish Jan 2017 #11

Can you blame them? Demsrule86 Jan 2017 #19

Only if we roll over for them...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #12

In all respect, the Guardian here is full of SHIT. BigDemVoter Jan 2017 #14

I wish I could believe that. Demsrule86 Jan 2017 #20

Our chances might be slightly better than that Vogon_Glory Jan 2017 #29

2018 scares me to death. The senate looks dreadful for us. yeoman6987 Jan 2017 #33

How many times will you post this yeoman6987? Kingofalldems Jan 2017 #36

Um, we won. We got more votes. We have more people voting for Dem Senators and Representatives. adigal Jan 2017 #22

We won 20 states. They won 30. We need to increase that state number. yeoman6987 Jan 2017 #34

Liberal policies are popular but we still lose elections. Willie Pep Jan 2017 #23

We need national campaigns, not some quant's computer models. Sen. Walter Sobchak Jan 2017 #24

More people voted for liberal policy Renew Deal Jan 2017 #27

After reading some of these posts, brutus smith Jan 2017 #30

They are as bad as daily mail MFM008 Jan 2017 #31

Bullshit. Trump's excesses will end up being the salvation of liberalism. Paladin Jan 2017 #35

Except we are not the minority since MORE PEOPLE voted Democrat. TrekLuver Jan 2017 #38