Can you Democrats please stop panicking?

[DS0816]

…It's times like these that I wish I could be a Republican…

This explains why "Democrats" nominated Hillary.


Don't worry yourself, Fmr. Griffin!

(Catch some sleep. Have lovely, sweet dreams. It will all work out.)

[DS0816]

Dims blew that when they nominated Clinton over Bernie.

If Bernie were the nominee, he'd get crushed like Mondale did. There's a reason Republicans didn't attack him in the primary: they wanted to run against a crazy old socialist. They would have flooded the airwaves with ads like this and this and this and he'd lose probably the same map that George McGovern did in 1972.

Translation: Even though Millenials are much more left wing than previous generations, and this was well-noted by Frank Lutz, you are wanting to believe that a nominee Bernie Sanders would lose so badly that the likes of California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Maryland, Wisconsin, and many states which have not carried Republican since the 1990s would vote for the same candidate as you: Donald Trump.

[DS0816]

If you seriously thought this was a possibility, you were being quite delusional. There was never a realistic scenario where the dems would get all the power: House Majority, 60 Senate Seats, Presidency

Huh? I never said any of that. You just defined 'destroyed' the way you wanted then called me delusional based on your own incorrect assumption. Good job?

By 'destroy' I meant a large win in the presidential popular vote that would reverberate downticket and help us take back competitive state legislature chambers that we've lost, which is entirely possible even without a landslide. For the Senate, my perfect (and realistic), best-win scenario for Democrats is probably a max of +8 seats, which is still very unlikely right now. For the House, a majority is a huge long shot and we'll be lucky to pick up 20+ seats based on current polling.

So no, 'destroy' meant almost none of what you said.

You can thank, in advance, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, ex-majority leader Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer for endorsing/pushing for corporatist Democrats Patrick Murphy (Florida), Ted Strickland (Ohio), and Katie McGinty (Pennsylvania). None of them will win. And this may be the case for Reid’s would-be successor in Nevada.