What Matters?

[angrychair]

Everyone beats the WH drum while the teapublicans have kicked our ass everywhere else.

While the rest of the country is so deep in a hole we may not see daylight for decades, the rest of you are caught staring at the sun. To date:

We have lost 11 governorships, 13 U.S. Senate seats, 69 House seats, and 913 state legislative seats and 30 state legislative chambers

So keep staring at the Sun while the rest of the country continues to be covered in the great darkness that is teapublican public policy.




FYI:
I don't care what your candidate may or may not do. This is on the DNC and feckless Democratic and Democratic-leaning Independent voters doing. Given the number of seats we have lost, who is president doesn't mean shit if we don't start caring about state legislatures and Congress. While you may care, the disengaged, feckless, occasional and straight ticket voter, very obviously, does not.
Noticed I said "straight-ticket" voters? Just because someone has a &quot D)" after their name doesn't mean they support liberal progressive and Democratic ideals. Sometimes the best person for the job has an (I) after their name (Just ask Maine and Vermont).

[Fresh_Start]

1. The most important factor was the low voting participation rate

Blame the non-voters.
The non-voters are the reason for the losses....
The non-voters are to blame for the squishy candidates..

The independent voters that actually voted are FAR less to blame than the non-voters.

[angrychair]

3. I meant to modify my OP and got sidetracked

I've edited for clarity toward the point you are making. I think "non-voters" is to generic. It over-simplifies the issues.

[Blue Meany]

2. Politics are a bit different in northern New England. Politicians are expected

to be independent of their party (if they have one) or no one will trust them and they will not stay in office. One reason we still have a Republican senator in Maine is that she is constantly catching flack from her party; that increases respect for her here. If they were to "primary" her with a teaparty candidate, the Dems would gain another Senator.

[angrychair]

4. I don't disagree

I also know, as has happened here in Washington, that in blue states we have teapublicans that change party to get a &quot D)" after their name to get elected (by groups like disengaged or straight-ticket voters) but then either outright caucus with teapublicans or side with them the majority of the time.

[zalinda]

5. No, this is on the Democratic Party

If they can't give the voters someone to vote for, then why vote? Just about every person in this country knows that the system is rigged. Just like EVERYONE in this country will tell you that politicians lie.

Those who voted for Obama didn't turn out in the midterms because he turned right and said he got this. He didn't ask anything of voters and he certainly didn't bring his comfortable walking shoes.

Put the blame where it belongs, on the Democratic Party. There are stories all over the place, even here on DU, where a progressive wanted to run but the party decided on a repub light. The party has even gone so far as supporting an Independent or Republican over a Democratic progressive, ask Ned Lamont.