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ArcticStones's avatar

Yes! Invest and build up the state-level party organizations, each of them attuned to that state’s electorate and needs. Obviously North Dakota is going to be very different from New Mexico, and Colorado different from California. In other words, a modern 50-State Strategy.

From now on, we must put forward a candidate in every race. This election, Democrats failed to challenge more than a thousand state legislative seat! (Never mind that Republicans left even more unchallenged.) That’s political malpractice and its intolerable!

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Lance Schulz's avatar

Yeah, people forget how quickly things can change. It’s not all that long ago that all four Dakota senators were Democrats!

I was talking to a younger friend recently and pointed out that in summer of ‘96 several highly respected national columnists were predicting that Clinton would finish 3rd and combined with three straight 400+ EV wins by Republicans that the Democratic Party would soon cease to exist. Of course, after Clinton got 370 EV that fall, that talk quickly disappeared.

I know that now it seems like the sharply divided country will continue forever, but every “forever” in the past has failed to endure. None of us know what event(s) will makes things change, but they will.

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sacman701's avatar

That must have been 1992. Clinton was always the heavy favorite in 1996.

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Lance Schulz's avatar

Right, I meant 1992.

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