Harvard Institute of Politics says Millennials breaking for GOP.

[Savannahmann]

31. What has my message been all year?

What drum have I been beating all year long?

Hasn't it been that we should A) Campaign on issues and especially issues that the populace is worried/interested in? B) Govern according to those campaign issues.

So what happens when the election comes around, the outcome I've been warning was a real possibility back in April no less, here's proof.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024770894

All anyone on the Democratic side has been saying since the year began is GOTV. None of the issues that were sure to get the vote out have resonated with the public. None. Not Citizens United. Not the Republican Vote to oppose Universal Background checks. Not the Government shutdown. Not one of those things won the election for us. NONE OF THEM.

All year, all you've been saying is GOTV. I've been begging the Democrats to run on issues, and it turns out that 51% of the people are deciding their vote based upon issues over party or identity politics.. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025735745

So now you're posting that I'm doing harm to the party by posting the information that I warned was coming all year long. I said that keeping the senate was going to be a tough fight, and we had to run ON ISSUES and get people to vote for us.

So I've been beating this drum all year long. Oh, let me put this in now in case I forget to sign off with the de-rigueur GOTV man. We're team blue, and team red sucks.

We could have steamrolled the fuckers this year, but we did nothing. If we hold the Senate this year, we will be lucky as fuck to have done it. While I hope that is the outcome, it's rapidly approaching the point equal to hoping that the numbers 413 come up on the lottery.

We can win in 2016, but if we're going to have a real chance, we have to get serious, and campaign on issues that the people want, and that they will support. That is first and foremost addressing the economy. Next, populist issues (I know, I've been singing this song for months too) like demilitarization of police. But we won't do it. We'll blame weak GOTV movements, at least some here will, and we'll go into 2016 with the same attitude that we approached this year. We'll pretend that the Republicans will self destruct. While in reality, it's our politicians who are self destructing, and people here are cheering them for it. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025739866

So excuse me if I refuse to sit silent while my warnings are approaching fruition. Because I want to make sure that the lessons we learn from this are the right ones. It isn't the crap that the voters were racist/sexist/fearful. It's that the Republicans paid lip service to issues, and refused to co-operate in giving us a quote like Real Rape to bludgeon them with.