Top state parties with the worst track records

[dmmidmi]

Next year it'll be 20 years since the Minnesota GOP got over 50% in a statewide election. That has to be a record amongst all states for either party failing to get over 50%. (Yes, even with Utah and Idaho, a Democrat got 56% for State Controller in Idaho in 1998 and 52% for Attorney General in Utah in 1996.)

When I saw the title for this thread, the Minnesota GOP was what immediately came to mind. Even in 2010, their biggest win was picking up a House seat--a seat they lost two years later. For a state that so many people insist is "moving to the right," the state party is incredibly incompetent.

For what it's worth, the Michigan Democratic Party blew MI-01 last year, along with all of the court nominees they were backing, Proposition 2, completely failed to recruit a candidate for MI-11, and made marginal gains in the state legislature in a Presidential election year. Their leadership needs to do some serious reflection before 2014.

[dmmidmi]

What has the Indiana Democratic Party done of late? Its almost the same results as the New York Republican Party in recent memory. They haven't won a Governor's Race in 12 years. The Republicans have both chambers of the state legislature. The US House Seats they have are in the most urban areas of the state and that's only 2 US House Seats. They only have a US Senate Seat because of a bad gaffe that Murdock made. I'll give them that Obama took the state in 2008 and Gregg won 45% of the vote against Pence in the 2012 Governor's Race but he didn't win.

They did hold the governor's mansion from 1989-2005, and routinely send Democrats to the Senate (their longest stretch without sending a Democrat to the Senate looks like the time between Birch Bayh being defeated and Evan Bayh winning his father's old seat). Considering that this is Indiana, their state Democratic party has been fairly successful.