06-21-2017, 12:10 PM
(06-20-2017, 11:57 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Scott Brown flat out won in insanely Democratic Massachusetts in a similar situation. This is a bad loss for the Dems, especially given the outside funding, and there is no spinning it otherwise. My hope is that they pull their heads out of their asses and start calling out the insane rhetoric on their side right now. We need to pull back towards the middle.
Eh. As one of my more poli sci oriented friends put it:
Quote:In political nerd terms, when you lose an R+9 by 5, you go looking for R+4 districts for next year. The Pubs didn't shift 14 percent of the House in 2010 by shifting 14 percent of the votes. They won by shifting 3 or 4 percent in a lot of districts. Someone once said to avoid the person who claims 20 years of experience but really has just one repeated 20 times. So it's sort of like that in reverse. Or as Commander Data once said, "It is a matter of perspective, Doctor. In the strictest sense, I did not win. I busted him up."
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
