I’ve got few takeaways
1) Dems focused on Hispanics and peeling off moderates, and it didn’t work. Turning out the black vote and winning the suburbs worked in 2018 and they probably saved the day this year. It’s hard to fight when the redneck enclaves are increasing their vote totals by 10-15% and you can’t get a highly targeted group to show up or vote for you.
2) Tom Perez has to go. I’m not saying Keith Ellison was the answer, but Keith Ellison was the answer. Getting Howard Dean out the paint before the 2010 midterms has been crippling to the DNC as a whole. Losing seats in the House and not completely taking the Senate speaks to not having a coordinated message regardless of location. Instead it speaks to the party supporting moderates who can’t close the deal while allowing them to come up with wildly different messaging that feeds right into the “no matter what they say, socialism/Soros/far left run them” to America’s uninformed electorate looking for a reason to not vote for Dems.
3) Mail-in and early voting was a referendum on Coronavirus and the economy. But by the time Election Day rolled around, media focus shifted to “pick your team” and Dems were roundly rejected. And that’s because the Dems made the focus their efforts to get Trump out instead to show how the House, Senate, and downballot races would help even if Trump won.
4) I’ve really enjoyed this thread. I’ve really enjoyed getting to banter, exchange ideas and ignore Nap with y’all. Yeah, cacs gonna cac. I think it’s great that no matter where we are from, what we do, and how much we disagree about this or that, we can teach, learn and expose agents together. Thank y’all.