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The Democrats' Political Suicide

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Dark_Falcon11/10/2014 7:06:45 pm PST

re: #14 jamesfirecat

Well said 2014 was a shellacking but it is a learning experience not some sign that the Democratic Party has some kind of bone deep flaw that needs to be rectified right the fuck now or else it will go extinct the way this piece suggests it does,

Here in Illinois it means the Dems have some serious fundamental flaws. Despite Obama coming home to campaign for him, Pat Quinn lost by about 10%. Moreover, GOP governor-elect Bruce Rauner won 53% of the women’s vote in the Land of Lincoln, about 38% of the Latino vote, and 20% of the black vote.

After years of Republicans having African-American vote shares in the single digits here, for a statewide Republican candidate to get 1 in 5 black voters to vote for him is a big deal. It is a sign that Pat Quinn abjectly failed as governor, and the Rauner campaign’s minority outreach was reasonably effective.