Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
I've been reading/listening to a good bit of discussion about this election and one thing that jumped out at me was the case the Obama completely gutted the Democratic party.

He was a personally likable/popular president that kept shoving unpopular policies. He didn't feel much pain from it due to his personal popularity, but his party suffered significant damage. I forget the exact numbers, but over 1000 local, state and federal Democrat office-holders have lost their seats since Obama came into office. He had a majority in both houses of Congress and lost both. The majority of state legislatures and overwhelming majority of state governors are GOP controlled. It was an interesting angle I hadn't really thought much about.

The tragedy for Republicans was that the worst candidate won. The tragedy for Democrats was that they had no one better to run.
Yes, I remember reading that the party basically purged the Blue Dog Democrats from the party, largely under the leadership of DWS. Maybe if they rethink that they could make headway in places like Nebraska or whatever, since you arent going to get a moderate Dem to win in those states. The whole party has to be rethought, last night was a rude awakening. Everyone thought, including me, that the GOP was in deep trouble. We were so wrong.