Politics Jon Ossoff's $23 Million Loss Shows Dems Have No Idea How to Win in the Age of Trump

Not voting is a vote of sorts.

Is "compulsory" one of your favorite words? I have problems compelling people to do something they don't want to do.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/21/nancy-pelosi-fallout-georgia-special-election-239804

Pelosi faces growing doubts among Dems after Georgia loss
There's a lot of grumbling by rank-and-file members, but no leadership change is imminent.


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats put a brave face on Wednesday morning after a disappointing loss in the Georgia special election, yet there is no disguising the unhappiness in the party ranks.

There is no challenge to Pelosi’s leadership, and none is going to happen at this point, said numerous Democrats. But it’s clear frustration is growing with the longtime Democratic leader following the extensive losses Democrats have suffered over the past half-decade.

 

The "great" Molly Ball.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...ia-ends-a-losing-season-for-democrats/531072/

ATLANTA—Around midnight, hours after their candidate conceded he had lost the Most Important Special Election in History, the last remaining supporters of Jon Ossoff took over the stage where he had recently stood. One of them waved a bottle of vodka in the air. Together, they took up the time-honored leftist chant: “This is what democracy looks like!”

Sometimes, this is indeed what democracy looks like: you get outvoted.

 

It was a gut punch to Democrats’ confidence, a reality check to the idea that vast swaths of the country were ready to deliver a backlash. And it was the capstone to a losing season in which Democrats failed to capture any of the four Republican-held seats vacated by Trump’s cabinet appointees.

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But it was in Georgia, in this well-off, well-educated suburban district, where Democrats had focused their attention, in a much-hyped battle that attracted the hopes and donations of activists across the country. Though both Ossoff and Handel tried to avoid it, they were cast as proxies in the national partisan fight, with enough hype and money—more than $50 million, or nearly $100 for every potential voter—poured in to make it by far the most expensive House race in history.

 

NYTimes humor section.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/us/pelosi-georgia-ossoff-democrats.html

Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump’

 

When I see it on people who deserve to be butthurt, you betcha.

 

#notlosing