To sum all of this up, Democrats are suffering from two problems: 1) midterm election turnout (I honestly think we need to start shaming presidential only Democratic voters by mail and direct contact) and 2) messaging. The good news is that we arent losing on policy stances, but were simply doing a terrible job at communicating those positions to voters, who lean Republican (while also failing to turn out our harder to turn out base during midterms). The most important piece of good news: conservative ideology is aging and dying, and, unless the GOP comes back to the middle (they are further to the right than theyve ever been...not really much of a difference between Republicans and tea partiers now), they will lose in the long run. Because of demographic changes, GA, AZ, and even TX will eventually turn blue. Once the House redistricting gives us more favorable maps (they couldnt get much worse than they are now), well be able to take it as well. As older, more conservative, voters die, they will be replaced by a more diverse and more tolerant population, which wont tolerate the GOP, unless they adapt and move to the middle on a whole host of issues. Currently, it looks like they wont be moving to the middle any time soon. So keep your heads up, Democrats! We have another wave cycle in our favor coming in 2 years. We have 4 years to figure out how to turn out these folks, who dont vote in midterms, and we have time to figure out how to communicate our issues better with more moderate/reasonable Republicans, who we need with us in midterms (the tea party folks arent budging because logic doesnt matter to them). westtennessee.blogspot/2014/11/heres-why-im-not-that-upset-about-2014.html
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:34:07 +0000
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