No. We are not a "50/50" nation or a "center-right" nation. We are 60/40 progressive.

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7. The issues at the state and local levels are somewhat diffferent

When I say we are a 60/40 country, what I am saying is that when you look at all the issues that people consider important at the national level, just about every poll on just about every issues shows the progressive ideas getting 60% support or greater. If it weren't for the shenanigans, dirty tricks, and huge money advantage, Republicans shouldn't ever win big on the national level.

On the local level, issues are closer to home, but in a year that has national offices on the ballot, it really does help with the top of the ticket shows up and asks for your vote down ballot. For all practical purposes, that didn't happen at all this time. In fact, Obama ran essentially as an independent. He had his own "party", his own money, his own offices, his own staff and volunteers. He didn't integrate with the Democratic Party at all.

We need to take a serious look at that organizational model. It worked for Obama but really sucked everywhere else but the Senate.