But legislative special elections aren’t good only for predicting who will control the House of Representatives in two years. They’re also leading indicators of future gubernatorial and — get this — state legislative results. If nothing else, 2017’s legislative elections so far put Democrats on track to make big gains in statehouses across the country in 2018 — the sector of government where the party suffered the most during the Obama years.
Atrios: Democrats have been chasing affluent suburban voters for a long time, basically because of class affinity. They're educated! They're professional! They're people like "us!" (affluent DC election professionals). They can't possibly vote for those evil racist assholes!http://www.eschatonblog.com/2017/06/romney-voters…
They definitely have issues, but the Perez/Ellison team seem to be making progress on fixing some of them. The trouble is, too many libtards will snivel "the DNC sucks!", then use that as an excuse to pout and stay home in 2018, rather than doing anything productive about it
<img src="https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder222/21866222.jpg">
too gozinta too, wunc.
But how are supposed to whine and cry that the sky is falling and talk smack about how the DNC sucks if this is true?
Atrios: Democrats have been chasing affluent suburban voters for a long time, basically because of class affinity. They're educated! They're professional! They're people like "us!" (affluent DC election professionals). They can't possibly vote for those evil racist assholes! http://www.eschatonblog.com/2017/06/romney-voters…
They definitely have issues, but the Perez/Ellison team seem to be making progress on fixing some of them. The trouble is, too many libtards will snivel "the DNC sucks!", then use that as an excuse to pout and stay home in 2018, rather than doing anything productive about it