The reason why Dems win the Presidency and why we struggle in the mid-terms....

[jillan]

Presidential Election -
Raise the minimum wage!
Equal Pay for equal work!
Rights for LGBT!
Path to Citizenship!
Close tax loopholes for Corporations!
Healthcare!
etc
etc
etc

vs

Midterm Election -

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Obama who?

[AleksS]

1. Worse than that.

Worse than that.

In midterms it's more like:

*Pointing to the republican candidate.* "What he said!"

[lancdem]

2. we do well in midterms when there's a repub prez

and vice versa. that's just the way it is. opponents of an administration are more riled up to vote than supporters, those who are indifferent, etc.

[jimlup]

3. Strongly agree!

Yeah, it's playing the game on their terms.

You would think we would have learned that by now, but apparently not. And I don't think we will learn it tonight either, unfortunately.

[Recursion]

4. Huh? The party has pushed for all of those recently.

What makes you say they are silent?

[jillan]

5. The Dem candidates that were too afraid to be seen with Obama instead of shouting about his

accomplishments.

[yodermon]

6. cynical, realpolitik corporo-dems want to lose

so that 2 years of repuke rule prior to the presidential election will serve as a foil to the presidential candidate.
They'd rather the public be sick of 2 years of repuke control than be sick of 2 years of dem control.
Hillary (et. al) wants another do-nothing repuke congress to run AGAINST in 16.
4 years ago it was a "shellacking", oh guffaw guffaw look how sad i am to have to run against these obstructionist repuke assholes in 2 years.
its fucking bullshit and i'm sick of it, over

[KatyB2U]

8. The Repub owned media will still blame it on the DEMS

You know how it goes....In the meantime, a whole bunch of damage gets done.

[uponit7771]

7. Yeap, run away from first black president but expect black votes... stupid DNC... no outreach to

... people who they need