2016 Postmortem

In the past 20 years we have won the presidency but have lost the House, Senate, Supreme Court, numerous state houses and governships.

After every midterm, we hear memes blaming the voters and not the selection of candidates. This always bothers me when I hear it. People vote for candidates that inspire them and whom they like and whom they think are on their side. When the democratic establishment puts up candidates that are more compromised, conservative and triangulated its on a political theory that seems to be proven wrong since we keep losing government positions. I want our candidates to win, but I think the fault is more in the candidates that we select than in the voters. If we keep thinking its the voters we will keep losing if we keep putting up bad candidates.

It is this about Hillary. Hillary is a risky candidate. We are putting up a candidate that has high unfavorables and is thought to be dishonest. These are facts. There are plenty of posts throughout the internet trying already to blame voters if they do not vote for Hillary without any thought of whether the blame is on the candidate herself. So I hope that if she is not elected, we can actually learn something and not keep selecting bad candidates who can not by themselves cause devotion in the general election from a majority of the electorate.