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2016 Postmortem

guillaumeb

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2. Not to minimize an excellent article, but

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Tue Jun 14, 2016, 12:31 PM

Jun 2016

a large number of those losses came in non-Presidential elections. Part of the problem is that likely Democratic voters are less likely to vote in every election. 2010 and 2014 were both noteworthy in that the turnout was extremely low.

Here in Illinois, Bruce Rauner was elected with 52% of votes cast out of a turnout of 34% of the registered voters. SO he won with 16% of the total voters support.

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For 40 Years, Liberals Have Accepted Defeat and Called It "Incremental Progress" [View all] Scuba Jun 2016 OP

Boiled frogs AgingAmerican Jun 2016 #1

Not to minimize an excellent article, but guillaumeb Jun 2016 #2

Some of us cynics suspect the DNC is just fine with low voter turnout. Scuba Jun 2016 #3

Funny how the one Democrat (Democratic Socialist) found quite a number libdem4life Jun 2016 #4

Agreed. They responded to an alternative. guillaumeb Jun 2016 #6

Lewis Powell and that wonderful Chamber of Commerce. Octafish Jun 2016 #5

Hillary: The Queen of Incremental Progress! n/t Herman4747 Jun 2016 #7

Good article, but wish it had a byline Armstead Jun 2016 #8

A couple of decent points, but Blue_Tires Jun 2016 #9

I've said this here several times myself Ferd Berfel Jun 2016 #10

"Offshoring" is now "Globalization", and "Incremental Process" is now "Pragmatic Incrementalism" TheBlackAdder Jun 2016 #11