The Democrats' macro problem
'In 2004 after a humiliating collective loss of the majorities in the House, Senate and the presidency, the professional class of Democratic Party was stunned by its fractured state with voters.
Twelve years later, after winning back the presidency and historic majorities in the House and the Senate, they have collapsed again, and again that same professional class of the Democrats is back to being stunned.
The Election Day losses evaporated everything that former chairman of the national Democratic Party Howard Dean had put in place for the comeback midterms of 2006; gone was his 50-state strategy program, along with values messaging and the simple mechanics of good candidates running down-ballot. . .
'Since Dean left, the Democrats have lost more than 900 state legislative seats in both the upper and lower chambers and 69 House congressional seats. After Nov. 8 they only control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature in six states.
"We need to do a better job of talking to a larger swath of the country," said Washo, a Philadelphia transplant who grew up in Scranton, Pa., where a lot of his fellow Democrats voted for Trump on Election Day.
"We also need a full-time chairperson," said David Axelrod, the former campaign manager for Obama.
In short, a true majority party for the Democrats is one that sees no flyover country at all and gives equal value to all voters, said Axelrod, adding that while there were a lot of smart people running both the Clinton campaign and the DNC, "There was too much tactical thinking."
"The Democratic Party cannot send a signal there is a new coalition and tens of millions of white working Americans are not part of it," he said.
"Our strategy to communicate to those voters, as well as having a presence in every state is where we have fallen short," Washo said.''>>>
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