Column: Stop pulling out your hair, Democrats. You CAN beat Trump (via latimesopinion)
And while it’s popular today to talk about how, even if Democrats win the popular vote, the electoral college favors Republicans, let’s remember that while Obama garnered 52.9% of the popular vote to McCain’s 45.7%, he also earned 365 votes in the electoral college while McCain got 173.
In 2012, when then-incumbent Obama ran against Mitt Romney, he had a very bad first debate. He was rusty, he seemed listless.One prophet of doom, the erstwhile conservative Andrew Sullivan, wrote perhaps: “A sitting president does not recover from being obliterated on substance, style and likability in the first debate and get much of a chance to come back. He has, at a critical moment, deeply depressed his base and his supporters and independents are flocking to Romney in droves.
Less than a month later, Obama soundly beat Romney, 51.1% to 47.2%, earning 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.in recent American political history, until he wasn’t. Trump made all kinds of preposterous promises: He would build a wall on the Southern border and make Mexico pay for it. He would revive the moribund coal industry. He would “take the oil” from Iraq to pay for the U.S. invasion. He would release his tax returns.Outraged Democrats could not believe their ears. His supporters just laughed off the criticism: We take himIt would help Democrats to think about their candidates in exactly this way.
When Democrats promise Medicare for all , when they vow to tax the super-rich to raise money for universal preschool, or to abolish college debt, just relax. These are aspirations, all of them excellent.I would, above all, urge Democrats not to automatically recoil at the phrase “democratic socialism.
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