Did we lose?

[newdayneeded]

I'm seeing story after story about how this last election was bad news because of some house losses. We won the Whitehouse, maintained the house, and tightened the Senate! (May even be majority)

On my ballot were 3 down ticket races that were unopposed by Dems. We just need to find some able bodies, and those races will be fought and won by us.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. This

[JI7]

2. Some people think white votes matter more

[AleksS]

3. Exactly!

People forget that of the 435 House races--WE WON MORE OF THEM!

DO you know who LOST more House races? The republicans.

We didn't win as many as we won last time, but we WON MORE THAN THE REPUBLICANS.

I am sick and tired of this getting called a loss.

A win that's less than you hoped/expected to win by.......IS STILL A FRICKING WIN!


If a team wins the superbowl, but not by as much as they thought they would, are they called the losers?

OF COURSE NOT.

So why are Dems called the losers, just because we didn't win by as much as we hoped we would?

We won more house seats than we lost.

EVERY. SINGLE. HOUSE. SEAT. WAS. UP. FOR. ELECTION.

And we won the majority of them.

We won.

We were the winners.

The republicans LOST the majority of them.

They lost.

THEY were the losers.

[ancianita]

7. +1 Right on!

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[OhZone]

4. Ha! Well we kept Andy Kim in my little reddish part of NJ!

So I took that as a big win. Until 2018, it was a red house member for ages.

[greenjar_01]

6. Malinowski held NJ 7 against Tom Kean Jr.

That's tremendous. You'd think we lost the House the way these people are talking. It's going to be a lot harder for Mitch to hold House bills up if the President is getting on teevee everyday saying he'll sign them.

[Cha]

14. I was so happy about that.. & Sharice

Davids District 3 Kansas that she Flipped from red to Blue in 2018!

[CentralMass]

5. Well all the talk here that it was going to be blowout didn't help that perception.

[ancianita]

8. I've said it before and will say it again. Don't believe the hype.

No matter how well Democrats do, most media and some Democrats can't help but try to find something Democrats weren't perfect about.

That said...

Tom Perez should answer your last question about Republicans running unopposed.
It's seriously important that the whole party know why Republicans ever run unopposed.

[Thekaspervote]

9. 4 of the seats we lost were freshman from very red districts in CA, they were bound to go back

We did really great! Especially considering all the cheating and voter suppression

[LeftInTX]

11. We were hoping to take the senate.

We were really hoping to flip the the Texas House. We did not flip a seat.
We did not even flip a swing district in South Texas that we lost by 900 votes in 2018. We lost by many more votes this round.

Redistricting is coming up and that is where the trouble starts. Republicans will be in charge of redistricting and in charge of the political futures of many Democratic candidates. From state reps they become state senators. From both of these, congress and governors and US senators and US presidents.

[KPN]

12. No, we won. But it would have been nice to do better.

Maybe next time.

Hard to understand why we’d not have a Democratic Party candidate on the ticket for any Congressional District.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. No. We won

It would've been nice if it had been the blowout that many were predicting but I'll take it.

[BarbD]

15. We won big! Consider the popular vote in spite of suppression and pandemic.

Dems will always have to work harder because of the money issue and difficulty in finding candidates for the down ticket races.

State legislature candidates by definition have to have a job that supports them and/or allows for considerable time off for the time the legislature is in session. This translates into why so many lawyers run for office and eliminates those who who have 9-5 jobs.

It takes time, organizing and boots on the ground. Stacey Abrams is a great example of what it takes to get it done.

[progressoid]

16. The Blue Wave didn't happen.

We beat trump, but barely. Yes we had record turnouts and so did they. If covid hadn't hit, we'd likely be looking at another 4 years of Trumpism.

It's not just the house losses to consider. They also won down ballot on the state and local level.

And we continue to lose blue collar voters and even non-white voters.

We need to step up our game.