She was a bad candidate that no matter how hard people worked for her, it didn’t matter. She just didn’t appeal to the voters.

all I see is Cat Marnell

People like Pelosi are part of the status quo. She was just confirmed by her peers...again. How will someone who hast lost four straight elections be able to deliver the House in 2018? That would have been a long shot even with new blood. She’s 76 and doesn’t even think about handing the batton to someone younger with…

The funny thing is that it’s not even a “minority issues” focus that is the problem. The dems made a conscious choice to shift their base away from blue collar workers towards college educated office types. They essentially abandoned unions, taking them for granted and letting them be demonized and destroyed. They…

Including, crucially, many of the people Democrats assume are their natural constituency, with black turnout (to pick an example) lower enough that it could have swung the election. The Detroit metro area, for example, had 16% lower turnout than in 2012. That’s enough to have potentially given her Michigan. Which I…

All I can hope is that this spells the quickened doom of neoliberal policymaking in the Democratic party. You want to know what spelled the end of the Dems this election cycle? Being unable to differentiate themselves very well against “traditional” Republicans on economic matters.

Yes. If voters were like how I wish they were then the GOP wouldn’t exist and we’d live in a paradise on earth. Here on earth we have to deal with the fact that “policy” is only one of several things voters pay attention to in a campaign and it’s arguably not even one of the most important factors in their decision…

I agree. Clinton wasn’t a bad candidate, but she certainly wasn’t populist and her campaign team was comprised entirely of idiots.

Which person said “focus exclusively on white men next time”? No one.

Would you mind defining “alt-left”?

Lots of people are suffering. You can appeal to everyone at the same time. Its not mutually exclusive to talk about issues that face minorities and issues that face the white working class. Obama did this for two election and was able to win.

Each day I’m more and more convinced that the commenters on Jezebel have never met anyone that isn’t like them (except their uncle or in-laws that they hate). The inability to grasp we lost is astonishing. The majority of people don’t find identity politics appealing. Most people vote for what they perceive to be the…

The flavor of Jezebel lately has been “circle the wagons” and “we ran a perfect campaign”. As goes our comments’ section, so goes the nation, I always say.

President Obama has it right with his post-presidency priorities. The most important thing Democrats can do in the next 4 years is concentrate on winning state legislatures because in 2020, state legislatures will get to redraw the district lines for the House of Representatives. If you haven’t heard of REDMAP, here’s…

More soon-to-be-septuagenarian candidates, preferably white, to really capitalize on the marginal improvements made by a popular two-term President. In other words: play prevent defense, it always works in sports and it definitely works for triangulating technocrats.

Kurt Eichenwald is a titanic Hillary shill that had a hand in pushing HRC over Sanders. He also lied about Wikileaks to HRC’s advantage. He’s a fucking hack.

meanwhile:

But half of your party is only a small fraction of the population, so you lose. That is reality, your ‘win’ was a phyrric victory.

Hmm, you guys are trying really hard to not understand very basic, obvious truths.