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In reply to the discussion: If we do not pull together on DU, we will fly apart. [View all]bigtree
(86,145 posts). . .you're misrepresenting the last election and conflating the results with criticisms of the President's policies and actions which you call 'attacking' him.
Off-season elections favor the discontented. Not many voters who are contented show up in those contests to vote, and this election and the last midterm were dominated by republicans and conservatives who froth with their hatred of Obama. That's not the case with people who post here, and it's a wonder that you can't see the difference.
Where your biggest mistake of understanding comes is in your assumption that DUers and other Democrats operate in some sort of pack, when Democratic voters, and DUers especially, come to politics with individual concerns; sincere and well-considered. It's a fallacy to assume that DUers failed to vote or support Democrats in this last election or any other to an extent that they should be held responsible for transferring their antipathy with some policy or the other with Democrats at the polls. In survey after survey conducted here, it has been made clear that we vote Democratic and vote regularly.
That said, it is the responsibility of Democratic candidates and office-holders to attract enough voters to the polls to vote for party or individuals; not the voter's responsibility to adjust or modify their interests or concerns to fit the political needs of candidates or office-holders. The sooner politicians get that through their narrow minds, the sooner we'll see a revolution of support for our party.