Democrats are losing members because of the entitlement mentality!

[Doc Savage Fan]

You're projecting a view based on a personal agenda that, to me, does not fit with what really happened. Again, this past election's turnout featured a few key things that you are dismissing to make your point: lowest turnout in history, a set of circumstances where Dem seats up for election far outnumbered Repub ones and the election being midterms where Dems never do well to begin with, all of which favored the Repubs.

With that in mind, I really think it a bit of a stretch to consider the election a "clear rebuke of Obama and Democrats".

There were many factors involved; however, a predominant one was dissatisfaction with Obama. If you recall, Democrats ran away from Obama en masse when their seats were in jeopardy.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

So then the 2008 and 2012 were a clear rebuke of Republicans then? You ever notice when a larger percentage of the population votes it tends to be significantly more for Democrats?

http://www.wpr.org/tuesdays-election-breaks-voter-turnout-records

Not in wisconsin. Seems higher turnouts haven't been helping you liberals here... or maybe it's just that your candidates and ideas just aren't fooling people any more. :shrug;

 

[hal2kilo]

Democrats are losing members because they abandoned the middle class which kept them in power for over 40 years after WW2, so they can be republican-lite corporate whores.

Pretty much. This is what happens to the party of FDR walking away from policies of FDR which created the biggest middle class in the history of civilizations.

 

[HomerJS]

Even when Republicans had big House gains in 2010 1M more voted Democrat nationwide.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Even when Republicans had big House gains in 2010 1M more voted Democrat nationwide.

Your point? That the Democratic base largely consists of the highly populated urban vote?

 

[HomerJS]

Your point? That the Democratic base largely consists of the highly populated urban vote?

Your point? GOP base rural sparsely populated states. I thought the OP was total members?

 

[trenchfoot]

There were many factors involved; however, a predominant one was dissatisfaction with Obama. If you recall, Democrats ran away from Obama en masse when their seats were in jeopardy.

Agreed, but en masse? Don't think so. More to the point, what they mostly ran away from was Obamacare, a popular program with an "unpopular" name that's being (ab)used and mis-characterized into a convenient rallying point and battle cry for the Repubs.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Agreed, but en masse? Don't think so. More to the point, what they mostly ran away from was Obamacare, a popular program with an "unpopular" name that's being (ab)used and mis-characterized into a convenient rallying point and battle cry for the Repubs.

You want to argue semantics? No thanks.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/politics/obama-strategy-democrats-questioning-acosta/

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Your point? GOP base rural sparsely populated states. I thought the OP was total members?

My point was to ask you what your point was and I apparently guessed poorly. Please clarify your point.

 

[trenchfoot]

You want to argue semantics? No thanks.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/politics/obama-strategy-democrats-questioning-acosta/

Good article. Thanks.