When is the Democratic establishment going to wake the hell up!!!

[virtualobserver]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-thompson-kansas-dccc_us_58ebd572e4b0ca64d918315c

National Democrats have held off committing their resources to Thompson’s campaign, citing the difficulty of flipping an ultra-conservative district that Trump carried by nearly 30 percentage points in November. Thompson criticized their reluctance as “establishment thinking” in an interview on Sunday, maintaining that “a lot of people don’t want to be proven wrong.”

[JI7]

1. you can contribute money directly to him if you want

[virtualobserver]

2. This must be why we have lost more than a thousand state and federal seats

It all depended on me personally.

[JI7]

5. no, we lose because race has a lot to do with how people vote

[virtualobserver]

7. that isn't why we lose.... they voted for President Obama.

Democrats just have to fight. Not funding elections won't cut it.

[JI7]

9. no, most white people did not vote for obama

he won because he got huge turnout among non white people.

[virtualobserver]

13. but he won

and yet we lost the 1000 plus seats all over the country

[JI7]

14. because he got a huge turnout among non white people

same reason hillary won popular vote by 3 million

many of those districts and states don't have enough minorities .

[virtualobserver]

18. Obama got 43% of white voters in 2008 - Hillary got 37% in 2016

Obama got 66% of young voters....Hillary got 55%.


That is the difference.

[JI7]

20. because a lot of white people who didn't vote before voted for trump

white voters who did not vote for obama, mccain, or romney.

[virtualobserver]

21. those 1000 plus seats were lost over the last 8 years

going forward, The veil is lifting from the eyes of voters concerning Trump

[JI7]

22. we had a black president over the last 8 years

if a person voted for trump it says a lot about where they stand on certain issues .

[elleng]

8. We can blame race all we want, and lose,

but more important, imo, is to pay attention to people's actual lives and needs. People need government that will really DO for us, and recognize there's a need for a new economic reality.

[JI7]

10. Obama did and kentucky still voted against him

[elleng]

11. and hrc didn't.

[JI7]

12. she did, she supported Obamacare . Trump was the one who didn't

but he gave them what they wanted which was deportations and bans on muslims, hispanics etc.

that's what they voted on.

[elleng]

15. superficially, but we really should pay attention to people's actual lives and needs.

Repugs don't do it, trump pretended he would and hasn't, but got votes.

[JI7]

16. Trump did pay attention to their needs which was to ban refugees and deport people

and he is giving them what they wanted. which is why they support him.

[elleng]

17. He appeared to pay attention to their needs, like coal miners' jobs,

so was elected. Many didn't realize that banning refugees and deporting people would actually harm them and those in their families, and that promising many jobs would NOT occur. Con artists do that, and leave many with continuing feelings of need.

[JI7]

19. the fact is they cheered him when he said he would look a syrian child in the face and say they

can't come here.

[elleng]

3. Tom Perez writes 'Bernie Sanders and I are hitting the road.'

'As Democrats, we believe that every hardworking American should have an opportunity to get ahead. We believe in standing up for working people, that you should get a fair wage for a hard day's work, and that access to health care is a right, not a privilege.

Those are our party's values, and they're America's values -- they're what most people voted for last November.

We need to turn our party around and get back on track to take on Donald Trump and win elections. But that doesn't mean changing what it means to be a Democrat.

We have to rebuild the Democratic Party from the grassroots up to make sure we're talking about our values and fighting for our candidates in every state and every level of government, from town councils all the way up to the President of the United States.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028914480

[virtualobserver]

4. that is an encouraging sign

but I think that he'd better let Bernie do the talking.

[elleng]

6. Yes.

Yes.