Part Sechs of You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

I notice that most of the sites I bet on have Trump winning in 2020 at around the -110 to +100 range but have the democrats winning the overall presidency at around -130.  That holding pattern is likely due to how early it is and the fact they don't know who he's going to face.

I'm not sure what a landslide line would look like line wise, but to me he's going to have to be more vigilante to save the state's he won in 2016.  He was mostly a wildcard in the last election but now people have seen him for a couple years and will have to determine what they will do.  I'm interested to see his strategy going forward because firing up his base won't win him another election, he's going to have to convince his non base to vote for him too which he seems to not care about at this point.

I would argue that it's the biggest flaw in the democratic party as well. And that is why they are losing ground in some of their traditional bases. African-Americans, for example. I think the last presidential election spoke volumes. I believe Clinton and the democratic party thought she would carry a much larger AA and woman vote than she did. I think the party thought they could campaign to these groups in the same old way. "Trumps a racist! He's a sexist, a womanizer!" Meanwhile the party lacked an actual platform. Trump, agree with it or not, had a platform. Bernie, as fantasy island as some of his platform was, he had a platform. What did Hillary/the democratic party campaign on again? It's funny, as we enter a new election cycle, I remember what Trump campaigned on, I remember what Bernie campaigned on, but what did the Hillary e g. the democratic party campaign on? They are fighting a war with piss poor battle plans, inept generals, and outdated weapons systems yet they are audacious enough to still always just assume they will win. That smugness is a turn off to a lot of people. The whole "Either you agree with us or you're a racist...or just plain stupid. A deplorable." party line is a turn off to many, specifically a large portion of today's youth. The democrats are too out of touch to see this.

Let's consider Obama dor a minute. We all know the party preferred Clinton to him as well, because they are out of touch, but let's consider him as a man. What's a huge reason he was elected? It's because he was as cool as the otherside of the pillow. People like his personality as much, if not more, than his politics. Then you look at the Clintons, the Pelosis, ect. It's as if the democratic party said, "Hey, you know what's even cooler than a hip, slick black guy?! Your Grandmother!!!" Bernie is a cooky old jewish guy but some how he connected with the youth. The DNC was like, "Nope. Nope. It must be Clinton!" Out of touch. The powers that be in the republican party didn't want Trump but they realized what their constituents wanted the rolled with it. The democrats are like, "We'll tell you what you want because we know better." It turns of a lot of voters. It turned off a lot of voters in the last presidential election.

@StumpTownStu

I like your posts a lot.  You described the old guard of democrats to a "T", they are entitled and think they are just owed victories.  Let's see if they learn from their mistakes otherwise hello another 4 years of Trump lol.