BIDEN: I knew a month before Election Day that Hillary would lose key battleground states

[Ms. Toad]

166. That's a start on the kind of intrspection I'm talking about.

Look at what went wrong:

* Polls aren't accurate - don't let up on the GOTV efforts, no matter how far ahead we appear to be.
* A second, related one, is that we need to stop fooling ourselves that voter ID laws don't hit hardest on a selected class of voters who tend to vote for Democrats. We're making progress on that front from a few years ago, but even this election season I still had numerous arguments with folks on DU who insisted that everyone could get the proper ID if they just worked hard enough, so it wasn't a battle worth fighting. Wisconsin proves that wrong (https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/) We should have been fighting harder (both to identify and assist in getting voter IDs to people who are strugging, documenting the actual cost (time, $, travel) and who it impacts, both to build a legal case against those laws - and to explain to congress critters why it really is discriminatory so they don't pass them in the first place)

I'm sure there is a lot more to be learned if we're willing to dig deeper - what I'm reacting to is that we are so justifiably angry at the dirty tricks that instead of stopping to ask what we could have done to avoid being in the position where dirty tricks could succeed we're just yelling that it wasn't our fault. That's a recipe for repeating the same disaster again every election cycle.