2016 Postmortem

I wrote an essay saying much the same thing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512621513

I don't know why some have difficulty accepting that at least 20-25% of eligible voters simply can't be reached by the Democratic Party without the Democratic Party abandoning its base. That doesn't mean Dems can't win. It just means trying to persuade the unpersuadable is a poor use of time and energy.

The Dem candidate has won the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 elections, and it'd probably be 7 of 7 had Gore not been robbed in 2000 (as there never would have been a Bush vs. Kerry election).

Like Obama in 2012, Clinton lost the white vote by 20 points. No Dem candidate has won the white vote since LBJ. That's not because the Republican Party is the party of sound economic policy.