Monday, May 5, 2014

GOP sweep in 2014 won't stop rout of JEB! 2016

The latest USAT/Pew midterm poll claims the GOP has the best midterm edge since the 1994 Newt "revolution." Even if Republicans sweep to victory in Congress, the Senate, and at state levels, what would this mean for Jeb in 2016?  Probably nothing.  Jeb will still be another Bush, and Republicans, even with control of both the Senate and the House, won't be able to govern effectively at the national level between 2014 and 2016.  The real problem for Democrats long term is their lack of effective state level operations.  The Democratic Party, as an elite urban-based Progressivist party, has for over a generation ignored grass roots politics at the local level outside of major urban centers, and has paid the price for it in the USA's "first past the post" representative republic.  It is not enough for their smug partisans to say "we win where the people are" when places where the people "aren't" still get to have a say in how things are done.

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