The Democratic Party is in a bad place, and they have one man to thank: Barack Obama.
Between the serially unpopular, cost-raising, care stealing Affordable Care Act that bears his name, a stagnant economy, and a deteriorating Middle East, there’s not much for the Democratic leader to hang his hat on. And nationwide, it’s been devastating for Democrats:
As Tuesday’s elections revealed, Republicans are not going to fade away easily. In Kentucky, Matt Bevin — who makes Trump look moderate — was elected governor in a major upset, while in Virginia, Democrats failed to capture the state Senate. (They needed a net gain of one Senate seat.) Overall, it was another good election year for Republicans, and as Matthew Yglesias pointed out in a Vox piece last month, the Democratic Party is in a much worse position at the state and local levels than it is nationally. “The presidency is extremely important, of course,” writes Yglesias, “but there are also thousands of critically important offices all the way down the ballot. And the vast majority — 70 percent of state legislatures, more than 60 percent of governors, 55 percent of attorneys general and secretaries of state — are in Republicans hands. And, of course, Republicans control both chambers of Congress.”
Democrats aren’t going to do themselves any favors- specifically if they follow Hillary Clinton’s lead and run on radical gun control and open borders, but Obama has hamstrung their ability to promise that they can execute their plans with any level of competence.
AAN Staff
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