What the DCCC is doing to win more seats in Congress etc...

[Historic NY]

DCCC Chair Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.) has launched a new data effort called “Revere” that he hopes will lead House Democrats back from the political wilderness.

House Democrats, facing a potentially lengthy period in the political wilderness, are embarking on a long-term strategy to overhaul their data analysis with a dual goal of winning some seats in the short-term while also asserting control of the next redistricting process.

After three straight elections left them in the House minority, Democrats are building a sweeping database to cull past and present polling, voter files, media advertising history and population trends for every competitive House district in the country. Democrats will then convert the data into one comprehensive archive housed in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill.

The ultimate goal is to capture as many House seats as possible and also to gain control of state legislatures to assure Democrats have a stronger hand in the decennial redistricting before the 2022 midterms.

“Between now and 2020, we also need to win as many Democratic seats in local state houses to put Democrats in the best possible place for redistricting,” Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (N.M.), chairman of the DCCC, said in an interview previewing the DCCC’s “Revere” database to The Washington Post.

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[randys1]

1. Good

[BlueCaliDem]

2. Good. Better than anything Steve Israel's ever tried to do.

Rep. Israel was an abysmal failure.

[Hortensis]

3. We have already spent an extended period in the wilderness,

and what a shame it hadn't been up and running before this election. Obama's Organizing for Action of course used technology well to elect him, but is almost not mentioned regarding 2016. What are they up to? Aside from a new push. for his SCOTUS nominee?

As for the House, our strategy after disastrous 2010 and redistricting was apparently to shrink the GOP's House majority incrementally each election until the next census, and then try for the majority in 2022.

Now, if Trump is the nominee, that could happen this November. We could get control of the House, as well as the Senate. Even Cruz should be a losing candidate with no slipstream for downtickets to ride, so that we should at least increase our House caucus substantially.

Apparently one of the problems could be readiness of local districts that never expected to find themselves in play this election. And of course getting funding to our best chances.