Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

The Left started that fight. If they had not blocked W's nominees out of sheer pettiness, the Republicans would not have retaliated by blocking this Garland character.

JFK would be ashamed of the modern day DNC.

Say what you want, a majority of the violence in the last year has been from Left-wing groups and their disruption of people's lives has only gotten worse.

This might amaze you, but the history of the university started out as all liberal arts. Time was, every graduate had to learn either Latin or Greek, the classical languages. A university graduate is supposed to be able to function in a variety of fields, at least to an extent. They should be able to represent themselves as an educated, thoughtful person, not as a person who is simply helpless outside of his field of specialization.

An uneducated America is an America that is going to be at a disadvantage when competing against more educated nations. Sorry that you don't see the value of Plato or Dickens for the group of people who will be running the country in 30 years, but previous generations did. Fortunately.

Why did Trump win? New research by Democrats offers a worrisome answer

As the Democratic Party rebuilds itself for the 2018 and 2020 elections, Democratic strategists have been preoccupied with a pressing question: Why did so many voters who backed Barack Obama in 2012 switch to Donald Trump four years later, and what can be done to win them back?

Top Democratic pollsters have conducted private focus groups and polling in an effort to answer that question, and they shared the results with me.
One finding from the polling stands out: A shockingly large percentage of these Obama-Trump voters said Democrats’ economic policies will favor the wealthy — twice the percentage that said the same about Trump. I was also permitted to view video of some focus group activity, which showed Obama-Trump voters offering sharp criticism of Democrats on the economy.

Priorities USA, the super PAC that is working to restore Democrats to power, conducted focus groups of Obama-Trump voters in Wisconsin and Michigan — two states that Trump snatched from Democrats — in late January and polled some 800 Obama-Trump voters nationally at around the same time. The pollsters also conducted focus groups with so-called drop-off voters — people who voted for Obama in 2012 but didn’t vote in 2016 — in the same states and polled 800 drop-off voters nationally.

“[Hillary] Clinton and Democrats’ economic message did not break through to drop-off or Obama-Trump voters, even though drop-off voters are decidedly anti-Trump,” Priorities USA concluded in a presentation of its polling data and focus group findings, which has been shown to party officials in recent days.

The poll found that Obama-Trump voters, many of whom are working-class whites and were pivotal to Trump’s victory, are economically losing ground and are skeptical of Democratic solutions to their problems. Among the findings.

50 percent of Obama-Trump voters said their incomes are falling behind the cost of living, and another 31 percent said their incomes are merely keeping pace with the cost of living.

A sizable chunk of Obama-Trump voters — 30 percent — said their vote for Trump was more a vote against Clinton than a vote for Trump. Remember, these voters backed Obama four years earlier.

42 percent of Obama-Trump voters said congressional Democrats’ economic policies will favor the wealthy, vs. only 21 percent of them who said the same about Trump. (Forty percent say that about congressional Republicans.) A total of 77 percent of Obama-Trump voters said Trump’s policies will favor some mix of all other classes (middle class, poor, all equally), while a total of 58 percent said that about congressional Democrats.

“If you felt like your life wasn’t getting better over eight years, then you might draw a conclusion that Democrats don’t care about you,” Guy Cecil, chairman of Priorities USA, told me in an interview. “Certainly a subset of these voters were responsive to what Trump was selling them on immigration. But you had a lot of consistency with the Obama-Trump voters … in terms of the severe economic anxiety they face.”

A similar dynamic was in place with the drop-off voters. Priorities USA’s polling found that 43 percent of them said their income is falling behind the cost of living, and another 49 percent said incomes were merely keeping pace. “There’s a lot of commonality between these drop-off voters and the Obama-Trump voters,” Cecil said.

I don't think the democratic party needs to regroup and make changes.

The biggest problem is that qualified democrats aren't running for national office. Hillary lost too much trust with too many people.

Keep telling yourself that. If you are only looking at the last election, then you ignore every election since 2010, sure Obama won the Presidency in 2014, but that was the only election the DNC won. If they don't step away from the far left, then they are not going to win very many elections, their slow slide to socialism isn't winning elections, it might energize the extreme left and the Bernie Bros/Bras but it isn't going to win you the seats you need to control Congress. It is all going to play out in 2018 and we will see what happens then but if you double down on the current trend it won't go very far.

For the next 20 years the Democrats are going to turn to the extreme Left, and the voters are going to keep putting Republicans in charge of the country.

One day in the distant future the Democrats will finally get their act together and purge their party of liberalism, and upon doing so they will start to win elections again. But it will many years before that day comes.