Claire lost

[xmas74]

52-44

What was a tight race all night suddenly wasn't. There will be questions about this race for some time to come.

[Polybius]

1. Terrible

n/t

[wisteria]

2. Russians were tampering with her race before.

But, she angered me with her sometimes I am not like that Dem campaigning.

[SMC22307]

3. That was a trouncing. I don't keep up with MO politics...

what the hell drove that big of a loss?

[xmas74]

4. Our electronic voting went down today, at least in my county.

And the exit polls do not match the returns.

[SMC22307]

10. Ugh. So what did they do?

Make people wait until they came back up? Hand out paper ballots?

[xmas74]

11. Paper ballots all day long.

That's fine but it didn't help the wait since they weren't planning for it.

[Progressive Jones]

5. Trump party election fraud, that's what.

[SMC22307]

9. Please elaborate. Did they fuck with early voting hours like in NC?

Are there voter ID requirements? Move a polling place away from public transportation like in Kansas? Try "exact match" bullshit like in Georgia? I hope like hell there are groups forming to combat GOP suppression efforts in that - and all - states.

[xmas74]

12. Exit polls the day of didn't match what was finally reported

nowhere near it.

Also, the Secretary of State refused to release any results whatsoever until the very last vote was cast
, which is fine. The problem with it was that all the exit polls had McCaskill ahead until Ashcroft suddenly announced she had only 39% of the vote. No one seems to quite know where any of it came from.

[KCDebbie]

6. I watched her chase after Republican voters for

12 years...

I held my nose and voted for her but I couldn't talk one of my daughters into doing the same. She didn't vote for Hawley but she wouldn't vote for Claire!

[JI7]

7. I have no respect for that

[EffieBlack]

8. You're right. And she consistently ignored and took for granted the black vote

Black folk warned her to pay more attention to her base, but she was too focused on chasing after Republican voters to listen to them.

This is the result.

[Garrett78]

13. Far too many Democrats think trying to win over Republicans is a winning strategy in red states.

They aren't going to vote for you when a genuine Republican is on the ballot. Stop trying to win them over.

[EffieBlack]

17. Exactly!

As Harry Truman said, "If people have to choose between a real Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, they'll vote for the real Republican every time."

[Jersey Devil]

14. You're probably right and we can say the same thing for Donnelly

They were too busy pretending to be Republicans to look after their real supporters.

[Garrett78]

15. And Bredesen. And so on. It's a moronic strategy.

[Jersey Devil]

16. well, next time in those states hopefully we'll have candidates

who know that they are Democrats and try to expand their electorate by bringing in new voters and getting the ones we already have to turn out to vote rather than wear Halloween masks that make them look like Republicans.

True story: I lived in a red congressional district and one year we had a Dem nominee for congress who showed up at our Dem Club meeting to talk about his campaign. He proceeded to tell us that he was going to tell everyone that he was pro NRA and a big gun rights supporter. He was going to out Republican the Republican candidate. I walked out.

[Garrett78]

18. Like Democrats who bash 'identity politics' and think Trump got votes due to economic anxiety.

Or who help contribute to the media/right wing-driven narrative that calling for something like single-payer is "far left" or extremist (equivalent to or worse than, say, being a white supremacist).

It's maddening. And not a winning strategy by any means.

[Jersey Devil]

20. What makes me hopeful

that we are going to choose the right kind of candidates is the number of new, very good and very bright candidates that were elected as candidates (and some like Beto and Gillum and Abrams who weren't elected) that are now very involved in the party. Their continued activity will help make sure that our next group of candidates are high quality and much smarter about how to present themselves as candidates.

[alarimer]

19. Democrats need to stop trying to appease Trumpists

It rarely works. Sad for her, but hopefully we’ve seen the last of it.