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(07-16-2018, 05:46 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Doesn't really affect Presidential elections.

It does though, in perception. 

Take my lovely Sen. McConnell. McConnell — in 2008-2016— uses every television appearance to tell you that it's all Obama's fault. No job? Obama. No healthcare? Obama. Wife left you? Obama. He pushed the narrative that everything that was wrong with the country was because of Obama... and if you didn't elect more Republicans, nothing would ever get better. He'd see to that, as he was going to be the obstructionist mastermind.

And people bought it. It was all Obama's fault. Not Congress that couldn't agree on anything, just Obama. And liberals. All liberals. They distorted the image of what was going on and manipulated huge chunks of the country so that if you're going to gain any ground there, you can't be ____. Whatever that _____ is, varies. Most sections it's a liberal; some it's a minority. But if you can't appease those blocks, you aren't going to win. And guys like McConnell use their offices to make sure those blocks that need appeasing fit in best with themselves.