2016 Postmortem
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What is our objective? Where is the money going?
Metrics matter:
In the last four years, what have we gained?
In the last four years, how have we improved?
Simple questions. The answer is not the kind of news we want to hear: the DNC, under DWS's leadership has been a train wreck.
We have lost 11 governorships, 13 U.S. Senate seats, 69 House seats, and 913 state legislative seats and 30 state legislative chambers.
What are we doing to correct the situation?
Demanding more closed primaries? Creating more barriers to entry for voters? Claiming to be against Citizens United and dark money while arranging for dozens of SuperPACs and dark money PACs and pushing the definition of what is legal and what is ethnical in fund raising and spending?
This report, commissioned by the DNC after we had our asses handed to us in the 2014 midterm, despite being soft and squishy on its recommendations, is largely being ignored.
So we have a president. So, we may get to hold the presidency again. We are losing our asses everywhere else. More of the same is NOT going to fix it. More SuperPAC fundraising is not going to fix it.
Wake up.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)SuperPAC fundraising IS the objective. As long as they can trot out the tired old "look at the scary Republicans" canard, the faithful will line up to throw money at them.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... very good. (Well, except for Bernie, that is.)
angrychair
(8,760 posts)To what end? Especially considering I have been better than most, on either side, at being fair-ish(not saying I have been perfect, I could have been better-I get my buttons pushed like anyone else).
That being said, I would love your statement to be true but on the other side of that coin, over the last several election cycles, voters have not handed the whole thing to one or the other party. Actually, we have clearly been on the losing end for far to long, the point of my OP.
I would also prefer control over a majority of state legislatures before 2020.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Yes ... definitely state control before the next census. (Or national laws to control gerrymandering ... if such a thing is legally possible.)