2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHarry Reid should step down as leader of Senate Dems.
I have no confidence that he has the political skills to give Dems a good chance at winning back the Senate in 2016. For one thing, he can't work with Obama and we need a Senate minority leader who can work closely with Obama to get as much as possible for Democratic priorities from McConnell. Maybe someone like Barbara Mikulski. She would be a good match for Mitch and she could work with Obama.
Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)-- Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin. What about Al Franken??
Definitely need a change; and in the house too.
John Larson from CT?? Just a thought.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)we should be looking at our next nominee to replace him. I will vote for Al Franken again, next time President!
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)Sherrod Brown would be better.. but honestly, I kind of like Reid, especially when he gets feisty
Of course he doesn't get feisty very often..and that's a problem...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)Jeff Merkley.
If Harry Reid hadn't squashed his efforts, there would have been real filibuster reform years ago.
IggyPops
(13 posts)...
Durbin, Schumer, Merkley, Brown, and Larson in the House. And the GOP is the party of white males, right?
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Dems need new leadership.
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Paladin
(28,264 posts)All three of them should be gone, for starters. I have no confidence whatsoever that they are capable of getting the party ready for 2016. Never in my wildest dreams did I think Reince Priebus would be considered a major-league political tactician, but that's where we're at after these midterms. Enough already.
budkin
(6,703 posts)He needs to go
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)to play this right or they will be hammering us as obstructionist (which didn't stick to them but they are better at it and unless we have a plan....)
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Reid never had my confidence to begin with, but I wouldn't hazard a guess who would be better.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)please be specific if you can.
Kansas (USSenate) the trick did not work
SDakota ditto
NorthCarolina.. hundreds of millions spent, still a loss