Norman Solomon — Drinking the Russia-gate Kool-Aid

The Democratic Establishment chooses to shoot itself in the head rather than accept blame for losing the presidency, Congress, the majority of governorships and state legislatures by blaming their defeats at the polls on Vladimir Putin personally.

The good news is that the Democratic Establishment is on the way to the trash heap, making way for new blood. Hopefully, MSNBC will be in the garbage truck with them for promoting this farce.

Consortium News
Drinking the Russia-gate Kool-Aid

Norman Solomon | coordinator of RootsAction.org and the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy

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A select group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last year’s presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost. Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party they’re right.

Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clinton’s defeat: Her base didn’t turn out, Donald Trump’s did and the difference was too much to overcome.
But new information shows that Clinton had a much bigger problem with voters who had supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but backed Trump four years later.

Those Obama-Trump voters, in fact, effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his group’s analysis, about 70 percent of Clinton’s failure to reach Obama’s vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters....

Without understanding how the party lost, it’s hard to figure out how it can win again.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article147475484.html#storylink=cpy

McClatchy
Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost

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