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In reply to the discussion: How to Save the Democratic Party [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)66. the fact that Repukes win landslides in TX does not "make me happy"
In fact, I think you have it backward. For reasons that are confusing to me, these slaughters are found "encouraging" to some, such as yourself. I am not "Texas=bashing". I simply pointed out that the state is deep red. Whoever runs for Governor for the Repukes next year will again get more than 55% of the vote, and the (D) will get in the low 40%. This is not bashing. This is a statement of the facts.
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Agreed. STOP trying to win over the completely delusional whackjobs who are destroying this
Nay
Jan 2013
#30
If the party went back to the New Deal and pushed economic populism, it may revive itself.
Selatius
Jan 2013
#11
Pass legislation proposed by Republicans five or ten years ago and declare victory!
Demo_Chris
Jan 2013
#14
Well, they want the optics of one and the cushy benefits of the other,
woo me with science
Jan 2013
#25
CU won’t be fixed anything soon but in the mean time we have to elect those who are
Lesmoderesstupides
Jan 2013
#28
There aren't any "Lefties". That's the problem. Nothing coherent, because what might pass for that
patrice
Jan 2013
#52
I don't dispute any of that, I know it intimately & first hand. The problem is HOW to develope
patrice
Jan 2013
#63
Anything "fundamentally different" has to be more than incremental. Centrists cannot
ancianita
Jan 2013
#57
I think the point of the OP is that if Democrats want to win more, they have
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#70