Reply #216: In Mr. Grayson's district the economy was in the toilet before

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he got elected and is worse shape now. Even though he had little or nothing to do with the economy as one vote in 435 and with shit for a senate, it was probably easy to convince his constituents to vote for change.

On the other hand in a district in central Virginia where the economy is bad but hasn't fallen off a cliff, change may be a little harder sell, so Perillo loses by 3% in a conservative district.

Conditions vary across the country and from district to district within a state. This is not a one size fits all type of enterprise.

But if you want one general condition that hampered all Dems this cycle it was the timidness not necessarily in proposed legislation but timidness in letting the American people what was going down. We were hammered with half truths and bald faced lies everyday from RW radio and RW TV and the response from Dems was tepid at most.

For what it's worth that's my opinion.