Dems spent $90 Million to lose to Mitch McConnell.

[magicguido]

We lost to a Diseased Ghoul with cigarette blood money running through his veins.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. How much did Lindsey Graham cost?

Oh, well.

Can't win without trying, I guess.

[Freethinker65]

9. They had to spend lots to defend Graham.

It I very hard to unseat someone with as much power as McConnell. Even if he is a soulless vindictive self dealing asshole, he is able to bring money and investment to his state in his position. A Junior Senator does not have the clout. That being said, McConnell did have to work a bit for for his seat this time and it'll not be as much fun for him going back to a solely obstructionist leader position.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. With Mitch and Linsey

there is no public accounting of how much Putin & his oligarchs spent.
Also, in addition, it could be that Putin hacked into and also changed the votes when they were reported or compiled.....

PS.....Mitch's black hands are caused by crawling thru the DC sewers every day doing his work........

[Proud liberal 80]

2. We spent A LOT of money

to lose to a lot of republican incumbents

[DENVERPOPS]

20. They had to go for it..........

The Senate was/is the true prize, even more important than Biden becoming president.
A RepubliCON controlled Senate has already shown us how ineffective they can make a president, like Obama.
If we had control of the Senate, Trump got elected, we could not only impeach him in the House, but vote to throw him out in the Senate.......

At best, right now, with the RepubliCONs keeping control of the Senate is the potential of the RepubliCON Senate stone walling, ignoring, and obstructing Biden if he is elected.......

[blm]

3. Should've gone to NC, Georgia, Maine, Montana, and Iowa.

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And Michigan.

[wcmagumba]

4. The expenditure did not win the election for Democrats but possibly...

brought new people into the party and set up new organizational structure that will help Democrats win in future elections. My take...

[TheRealNorth]

5. By and large

I was disappointed with a lot of Democratic ads I saw. They need to seriously examine the ad agencies they work with.

[exboyfil]

8. YES

I thought Greenfield's were awful. Of course apparently Trump is popular in this state so nothing may have worked. Greenfield was a lightweight going up against a lightweight incumbent.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. +1

[exboyfil]

6. It can also be viewed as a battle in a war

McConnell had to spend money as well that might have been spent to defeat one of our candidates (for example if Cunningham had he won). I do wonder, if we had given the Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates $10M each, if Cunningham would have won that race.

[kimbutgar]

7. Maybe he'll die from what is going on in his black hands

That said I wonder what kind of voting methods they use. Hackable machines? Or undercounting votes in democratic areas of Kentucky. They have a Democratic governor so Democrats have won there so this might be super fishy if it’s those non paper voting machines.

But I really thought we’d beat Lady G. That is even worst.

[LisaM]

10. That money could have been better spent in Michigan

People tried to point that out.

[Bev54]

11. Iwas important to try to flip the senate in every race there was a chance.

[Aviation91]

12. Actually, it's the people in Kentucky that lost...

because they may still have Mitch but they'll still rely on funding from the blue states!!

[ffr]

14. +1

Red welfare states.

[ffr]

13. How tRump's team spent most of the $1.6 billion it raised over 2 years and lost the GE.

[happy feet]

16. This!

Sick of the Monday morning quarterbacking

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Until you crack faux news - church stranglehold on voters' minds, it will continue this way

[George II]

18. Not quite as simple as your conclusion. I remember when people said we needed a 50-state strategy...

Should we now reduce that to 49?

Those in the know did what they thought was needed to win, in every campaign in which we won or lost.

Had there been less of a campaign in Kentucky and McConnell won there would have been complaints that we didn't do enough to defeat him.

[demtenjeep]

21. and we need this right now why?

what an asshole thread