Democrats And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (For Republicans)

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Posted by Mark NC on November 5, 2014 at 11:31 am. 14 Comments :

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: Election day 2014 sucked elephant balls. It is saddling America with a Republican senate that is notable for being unproductive and adversarial. It’s new leader is a hyper-partisan, Washington fossil whose only agenda is obstructionism. One of its new members is an Agenda 21 conspiracy nut who carries a gun to defend herself from the government she now represents. Florida and Kansas returned to office the two least popular governors in the country. And the right-wing noise machine is going to be gloating feverishly for weeks.

But the real story underlying this election is one that the media will almost certainly fail to address. Despite the election returns, America hates the Republican Party and its policies. The turnout is estimated to be about 38%. That means that the GOP victory was achieved with a majority of a little more than one-third of the electorate, or about 20%. That is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the Republican agenda.

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[RobertEarl]

1. It may not be a ringing endorsement

But it sure as hell rung a bell.

The party leaders failed to GOTV. On DU last week were thread after thread of DUers calling for GOTV. So why aren't those DUers now calling for the leaders to resign for their failure to GOTV?

The bell that was rung, is a bell that rings Mutiny!

We need to take over the captain of each little ship in each of our losing districts. I know how it goes, and the Mutiny bell has been rung!!.

[bhikkhu]

2. I wonder if the DLC would do better to just advocate and inform for voting

and drop all the political ads.

As long as turnout is low, it hardly matters that we can set the hair on fire of 20% or so, if the rest are too disillusioned to participate.

[msongs]

3. the real damage is the repubs takeover of so many state legislatures nt

[7wo7rees]

4. Amen. Hardly anyone wanted to bother to vote! There in lies the problem. n/t

[joshdawg]

6. Exactly right!

Don't vote: republicans win.
Vote third party: republicans win.
Vote republican:.......................
Dems did not vote. They lost.

[world wide wally]

5. The sad reality is that even fewer of them voted for us