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2014 Paradox: Progressive Ideas Win, Democrats Lose (w/ Celinda Lake)
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Papantonio: Get Ready For the Clinton Purge of Liberal Democrats
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Did Republicans erase Democrats #39; traditional advantage with early voting?
Democratic strategist Jeff Link says it #39;s clear that a lot of Democrats stayed home in 2014 and didn #39;t vote. Part of the reason was a failure in messaging. Republican strategist Dave Kochel...
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As Democrats take stock of their grievous losses in the 2014 elections, party leaders are confronting a challenge perhaps even more daunting than their defeats in the House and Senate: the virtual wipeout of the Democratic talent pool across the country.
After the Republican waves of 2010 and 2014, the party is depleted not just in its major-league talent, but also in its triple-A recruitment prospects. It amounts to a setback, Democrats say, that will almost certainly require more than one election cycle to repair.
At the start of the 2014 campaign, Democrats envisioned an election that would produce new national stars for the party in at least a few tough states Georgia Sen. Michelle Nunn or Kentucky Sen. Alison Lundergan Grimes, for instance, or maybe even Texas Gov. Wendy Davis. Even if the party fell short in those reach states, Democrats hoped to produce new heavyweight blue-state Democrats Maryland Gov. Anthony Brown, the countrys only black state executive; or Maine Gov. Mike Michaud, who would have been the first openly gay candidate elected governor.
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Any of them could have landed on a vice presidential short list in 2016.
Instead, all of them lost.
Joining them were numerous down-ballot Democrats widely viewed as future contenders for high office: attorney general candidates in Nevada and Arizona who looked like future governors; aspiring state treasurers in Ohio and Colorado who could have gone on to bigger things; prized secretary of state candidates in Iowa and Kansas as well as countless congressional hopefuls around the country.
Arizona Rep.-elect Ruben Gallego, a state lawmaker who will be one of the few Democratic freshmen in the next Congress, said the party will need to redouble its efforts at recruitment and voter registration in order to bounce back. Along with other state and local Democratic leaders, Gallego predicted that city- and county-level officials would be the best place to look for ground-level Democratic recruits in the years ahead, thanks to the partys strength in urban America and these officials relative insulation from national trends.
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The way we rebuild is really by having a deep investment in our local city council races and state races, by really starting to recruit and pipeline strong local candidates, said Gallego, a 34-year-old Marine Corps veteran. Thats where your good congressional candidates in the future are going to come from.
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After their defeat at the polls, a crucial question confronts Democrats: Deep dish or thin crust? (AP/Caryn Rousseau)
If you and your friends order a medium pizza and there aren't enough slices to make everybody happy, someone will probably state the obvious:it would have been a good idea to order a large. Among Democrats looking back at Tuesday's results, though, there isn't much talk about a bigger pie.
Analysts hadbeen pointing out for several months that economic growth has not led to wage growth, and that the working classhasn't really experienced the recovery for themselves yet.As a result, the reasoning goes, they're frustrated with President Obama. Since the election, liberal Democrats have reprised this theme. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's supporters are arguing that her styleof egalitarianpopulism would have helped Democrats reach white, working-class voters. Harold Meyerson excoriatesDemocrats for failing ordinary Americans. "What, besides raising the minimum wage, do the Democrats propose to do about the shift in income from wages to profits, from labor to capital, from the 99 percent to the 1 percent?" he asked.
Anote of despair is audible in questions like these, a sense that while a rising tide might once havefloated all the boats, America's tide is going out. Maybe that despair is justified, but Christina and David Romer don't think so. Their recent paper argues that some developed economies recovery quickly, even from relatively serious financial crises. Ours did not, but thingsdidn't have to turn out the way they did. "Maybe the policy response was just bad," Christina Romersays. In other words, policymakers considereda menu of options, and they ordered amedium recovery with no toppings.
Her argument amounts to a serious critique of the Obama administration's economic policyfrom someone who was crucial in planning the response to the financial crisis. There was more the White House shouldhave done, even though Republicans in Congress insisted on austerity rather than fiscal stimulus.
To be sure, the policies considered in the paper, such as providing financial relief to underwater homeowners, would have both reduced inequality and contributed to growth. Sometimes,the size of the pie changes depending onhow it's sliced. The point is making sure there's plentyto go around.
Correction:Thursday's newsletter misspelled the name of a scholar at theUrban Institute. It is "Brian Elderbroom," not "Brian Elderbloom."Our sincere apologies, but don't misswhat he has to say about sentencing reform.
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