The DNC Doubles Down

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Via Meadia:

Nov. 18 2015

 

The Democratic National Committee has just released its final “Victory Task Force” report—the party’s post-mortem on its 2014 midterm drubbing—and the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is not impressed:

 

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Cillizza is right. The document reveals a party with full confidence in its platform, convinced that it can start to win if only Americans were hearing its message. “The 2014 midterms made it abundantly clear that…Americans overwhelmingly support the issues and values that the Democratic Party fights for”, the Victory Task Force declares, rather remarkably. However, it continues, “our down-ballot candidates were not connecting with voters and lacked some fundamental infrastructure and support to convey their message.” According to DNC higher-ups, in other words, the principal reason that the party is now weaker (by some measures) than it has been at any time since the New Deal is that it lacks an effective infrastructure to field candidates and broadcast its arguments more loudly. Nothing that can’t be fixed by more fundraising.

The only concrete policy change the document addresses is redistricting. This is appropriate, as the 2010 Republican-drawn Congressional districts certainly have contributed to Republican state-level and Congressional dominance. The problem is that the report doesn’t give any remotely plausible proposals for how Democrats might actually recover state legislatures in 2020 and gerrymander them in their own favor.

 

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