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In reply to the discussion: This may start a DU dispute," but [View all]BGBD
(3,282 posts)We lost one impossible senate seat and picked up two. We forced both GA races to a runoff that we have very good shots at. We lost some house seats, but this was after a midterm where we picked up many of these same seats in very red districts. We should hav anticipated losing some of these seats in a high turnout general election.
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I think we could do a much better job of messaging and attracting rural voters, but we have a roughly equal chance at having unified government under Democrats and we beat Trump by something along the lines of 6 or 7 million votes. That's hardly "minority". Our problem isn't being in the minority as a party, it's the geographic distribution of our support and a system that puts urban areas at a massive disadvantage relative to their populations. So, again, we need to do a better job of attracting rural voters.