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In reply to the discussion: Please understand that this is why we lost. [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)109. Anyone who said Grimes ran a good campaign lost any credibility with that argument after the outcome
Everything she did didn't change the trajectory of the race - McConnell kicked her butt. It wasn't close - certainly not as close as the polls suggested. If Grimes had come within a few points, as the polls indicated, I think the point of her running the right campaign would hold water.
It doesn't now, though. McConnell won by 16 points. His win in this election was by a wider margin than over Bruce Lunsford - and his second largest victory ever in running for senate (only bested by a 30-point margin over Lois Combs Weinberg in 2002). Grimes ran a poor campaign and it showed in the final results.
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Yeah run in KY a coal state with folks who love their guns on a platform against guns and coal. That
still_one
Nov 2014
#1
Some of these people know coal is the past. Dems need to offer them a future....
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2014
#94
How about strengthening unions and making a safer and cleaner working and living environment?
adirondacker
Nov 2014
#52
Well gee it is so easy for people like us in a blue state to expect our values to resonate in a red
still_one
Nov 2014
#16
When I saw the video and did not know who it was I thought she was a GOP idiot......
Logical
Nov 2014
#21
I know she had her reasons, and it might have seemed like a good idea if she'd won, but . . .
ucrdem
Nov 2014
#31
Really? Then maybe you can explain how in the states where Obama actually campaigned
SomethingFishy
Nov 2014
#38
The President loves frickin-fracking. That whick enriches the 1% and poisons the water for
rhett o rick
Nov 2014
#47
Dukakis was widely mocked by his opponents for what they characterized as martial posturing
whereisjustice
Nov 2014
#53
“Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for
jillan
Nov 2014
#59
That's why transition to clean energy needs to include new jobs for coal states
Martin Eden
Nov 2014
#66
"And if you are in it for the money, take a hike." DC would be a ghost town. nt
NorthCarolina
Nov 2014
#80
I thought we lost because we didn't praise bank fraud and NSA spying enough on DU eom
whereisjustice
Nov 2014
#85
Grimes came off as the fall guy for McConnell. Somebody had to be the LOSER.
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2014
#99
Anyone who said Grimes ran a good campaign lost any credibility with that argument after the outcome
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2014
#109