Hey guys, remember how the Republicans were "dead"?

[BlindTiresias]

NEVER underestimate your enemy, a timeless lesson. If the Dems do not shape up and seriously stimulate turnout and actually offer meaningful and dramatic policy choices the party is going to have a bad time.

[kelly1mm]

1. My earliest political memeory is of the 1980 election where my father told me that I was lucky

because the Republicans were on their way out and would die off soon and by the time I would be voting, I would not have to worry about them. In 1988, the first time I could vote, my father had turned into a yuppie and voted straight R.

The point of this is that I believe we will always have two opposing parties here in the US.

[Fumesucker]

3. Great story

[JI7]

8. why did your dad turn into a yuppie ? did he get some wall street type job or something ?

[kelly1mm]

9. No, he got divorced from my mom, then married a 'holy roller' and turned into a greed is good type.

He worked in The SF Bay Area in high end stereo components. In the period between the 70's and the 90's that niche went from burned out hippies (like my dad) to silicon valley/big business types.

That is how he turned yuppie.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Exactly correct

The two major parties have setbacks, but are never permanently dead.

[Skittles]

4. never underestimate how many stupid people vote

propaganda WORKS

[BlindTiresias]

5. Swaying enough points on the frequency distribution

is pretty much how democracy works, so if you can't deal with or stir stupid your own failure is to be expected.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. Citizens United

As was the case in 2010, Dems were pulling even around Labor Day - then came the flood of outside money, with a healthy boost from the "lib'ul media" trying to turn everything from Ebola to ISIS into a referendum on the president.

Dems refusing to fight back didn't help things.

[AverageJoe90]

7. By all rights, they shoulda been.

But by some truly perverse reverse of divine providence, they managed to stick it to us. Indeed, I am honestly beginning to wonder if we aren't living in some less funny version of the Onion, you know?

[Martin Eden]

10. Republicans ARE dead

The Zombie Apocalypse has begun.