Reply #12: That timeline is excellent, but it completely omits an even bigger contributor to the 1994 loss...

[benEzra]

and that was the IDIOTIC gun ban that the DLC rammed through in 1994, that became law in September, just a month before the election. Unlike the health care debate, which was abstract and esoteric, the gun ban was concrete, and was accompanied by lots of finger-wagging and insults directed at gun-owning nonhunters.

Alienated Rural Democrat (with thanks to DU's virginiamountainman)

There are those who would like to repeat that debacle in 2010.


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Dems and the Gun Issue - Now What? (written in '04, largely vindicated in '06, IMO)

The Conservative Roots of U.S. Gun Control