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In reply to the discussion: This Donald thing is starting to blow up. [View all]40degreesflaps
(88 posts)...admire her all you want but from the perspective of those who fund these campaigns, she's a two time loser. Her stats folks knew in the summer she wasn't measuring up. If you are the standard bearer in the Democratic party and can't carry Michigan (birthplace of the United Auto Workers) in a walk, something is very wrong and this case it was the candidate. One concern almost no one is discussing right now is the early signs of Michigan going the way of Ohio in terms of demographics and voting patterns. Snyder signed Right To Work awhile back and that gutted what was left of organized labor which is how the party at least used to fund races and the day to day of operations. Without that cow to milk on a regular basis, the party rots from the inside out. That's what happened when Cuyahoga county lost its industry and now it's happening in Wayne and Macomb. I did a little work there for IBM several years ago and you could just see the suburbs having that nice, stable underpinning while everyone else sucked air. I did stay in a 1930s era hotel downtown that had been redone and looked a set from The Sting. They had some of the best room service I've ever eaten and it was affordable. I was shocked.
This isn't exactly breaking new ground. Every single Political Science undergrad knows this stuff or at least they should.
Even Howard Dean, when offered the DNC post, said no...it's time to pass the torch. Howie's no dummy.
I should have gotten that MA in American politics. School bored me, all I wanted was to play with computers. I had to make a living.