Embittered election postmortem (please let's just have this one thread to vent)

[useful idiot]

It was a mid-term with unusually low turnout and an unfavorable map; there's nothing for Democrats to be upset about apart from the loss of the elections themselves. This cycle said little about America as a whole or its direction. Your voters are out there for you to be able to win every cycle, you just need to figure out how to get them to the polls without a cult of personality driving them there. The Republican's problems are far more existential than that...