With the exception of a brief period after the Republican victory in the 2014 midterms, Democrats have led in the Gallup poll for years. “I think they did the Senate a disservice”.
The sound of last week’s Krakatoan explosion is still reverberating. This, of course, is not to say, that the right and its policies did not fail in the eyes of conservative voters as well, but the shift of their representing parties, particularly the Republicans, moving further towards the right, has only enabled Trump to win based on his campaign promises.
“TPP was stopped because of you and Donald Trump had nothing to do with it”, Tefere Gebre, the executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, told the crowd. While other Democrats such as Senator Sanders held rallies in Wisconsin to both promote Clinton and Democratic Senate hopeful Russ Feingold, Clinton was nowhere to be seen.
It’s not just Clinton.
And We the People are going to get to watch him try. Jeanne Shaheen’s 2014 midterm campaign. But if he wants to just divide people in our country or keep the system rigged for the wealthy and the well-connected, count us out. Braley went on to lose to Joni Ernst. To do this, they did what every good citizen does on Election Day: vote. After her defeat last week, Sanders said he did not talk to her directly, only on a conference call.”She ended up getting more votes that Mr. Trump and it goes without saying that she has a very important role to play about the future of the Democratic party”, he said. Why would the same not be true of a Trump presidency?
The other enormous – and closely intertwined – factor in Clinton’s loss was the enthusiasm gap.
Democrats should begin – today – the largest early stage recruitment and fundraising operation in modern political history to find first-rate candidates to run for governor and seats in Congress.
It offered a rare occasion for middle-class and working-class folks who lost homes, jobs or both during the Great Recession – while bankers and CEOs got bailouts and buyouts – to lodge their discontent and effect change. The rather unusual campaign this time attracted more attention as well as a lot of emotion. “You treat us as if we were intelligent human beings'”. There would be many reverberations for our politics.
“Donald Trump is nobody’s fool – he is a smart guy”, Mr. Sanders said. He’s the most successful political manipulator I’ve ever seen.
“This disenfranchisement and disillusionment is also the reason why Trump is the frustrated voters” answer to the “establishment” a la Hillary Clinton, and her decades of experience in politics has only hampered her chances as well, as both sides of the political spectrum have been fuming at the “establishment”.
“I was elected as an Independent and I will finish this term as an Independent”, Sanders, who has long caucused with the Democrats, said at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, The Hill reported.
Sanders’s book shows a path – one that moves briskly to the left – for connecting with the white working class.
Mark Harris, a campaign consultant to Republican U.S. Sen.
He writes that he did poorly with seniors because they “remember the Clinton years fondly”, have “negative impressions of the word ‘socialism, ‘” and don’t use social media, a key part of how the campaign connected with supporters. Seventy percent of white voters also described Clinton as dishonest or untrustworthy.
We’re creating a positive news network. American workers who once earned solid wages now walk past closed and decaying factories on their way to minimum wage jobs, while the Clintons raked in millions giving speeches on Wall Street. “And I would hope very much that he recognizes that that point of view that he has is way out of touch with what the scientific community believes”.
Winning back those voters after ignoring them in the presidential election won’t be easy, said Jim Burn, a former state Democratic Party chairman. Now the landscape looks very different. Perhaps, the Democratic Party’s problem is geographic.
So when it comes to fighting for the “forgotten” working class, Sanders is ready to work with Trump. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut. “But my feeling generally is that the president should have the opportunity to select his team, and if he makes mistakes, he will be held accountable and so will they”.