What's getting lost is the unity that Democrats achieved this year

[bucolic_frolic]

1. For some reason

we underperform at the ballot box. Or at least at winning elections in the Senate. I don't follow all the races of course, but it seems to me that at time we have had token candidates. We do run a 50 state strategy for Senate races, but I wonder if our recruitment lags. There have been some forgettable candidates over the years. We should have strong recruitment and not settle for patronage just to say 'we can't win, but we had a good candidate'. These are sometimes business leaders or long-time state politicians. And I wonder if the party - the DNC - has ever studied, deeply studied, races we won and overperformed vs. races we sputtered. Surely there are strategies other than leaving it to the candidate to run the race. Jaime Harrison raised money for sure, but he's not Senator.

Carrying on about this because the damage is cumulative. Winning 2 more races over the last 4-6 years would give us what we need now.