Democrats In Trouble?

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7. A few years ago the Repubs realized that all that power was there for the taking, sometime

in offices that no one was even running for.

So they made a concerted effort to get anything they could and they picked up thousands.It was Koch money, but it wasn't that much, and could have been responded to, if the leadership of the party had cared. They didn't respond, perhaps because their own candidates wren't that different. (Bill.)

They went after control of people's lives. Not the few hundred national offices that get the press, but things like county clerk, school board - the things that make a lot more difference in people's day-to-day lives than a national office in many ways. They found people in these locations, sent them training materials, showed them how to gather their neighbors for coffee and influence them.

People even talked about it on here, laughing and poking fun. Today many of those people are in office, and it will be years, if ever, before they can be replaced. In the meantime, they will hurt a lot of people.

The Democrats were asleep at the wheel - while they talk about a strategy to win the WH, their opponents were planning and training people, teaching them how to run and win, and quietly scooping up local power in thousands of other offices across the 50 states.

And now there are decades of catch-up work to do, if it is ever possible. It will be interesting.