Now how do they intend to target older, white, blue-collar, high school educated
reactionaries?

Educated smart people have an open mind, they'll sway some percentage of them.

Rigid minds are a harder move.

But "winning back" the White Working Class is just delusional. Today, given the horror Republican voters have witnessed from Trump in the White House and R's in both houses of Congress - only 3% of Republicans have voters remorse! Three. Percent! Possible collusion with a hostile foreign government and only 3% of Republicans think, "Waitaminute...?" Loss of healthcare for millions, tax cuts for the super-rich, and only 3% of Republicans think, "Waitaminute...?" The un-Constitutaional packing of the Supreme Court and only 3% of Republicans think, "Waitaminute...?"

Why even bother going after voters who clearly, and strongly, and in spite of their knowing it is against their best interests, stupidly - prefer Republicans?

Those "older, white, blue-collar, high school educated reactionaries" are a shrinking demographic. So move on. BE DIFFERENT, DAMNIT! Go after voters who see the GOP as the nightmare they are; i.e., women. the young, gays and Lesbians, African-Americans, Hispanics, the highly educated, people in big cities, non-Evangelicals, and get them to turn out. They will if you appeal to them.

And get back the states! They are more important than the federal government.

We can't afford to throw away any votes.

Also, that 3% margin may increase as Trump and the GOPee continues to cut into programs that these people depend on.

I realized it wasn't the monolithic repug bloc it had been made out to be. The repugs I did meet seemed more of the main-street business-booster variety than the conservatroid religioso or alt-right variety. Happy hunting, Democratic staffers!

If Trump manages to destroy the decent economy, like the last R President, then we have a good chance with the Chamber of Commerce Repugs.

Rohrabacher…oh, the list is long!

campaigns to unseat him. I will celebrate this loss first .

If the DNC instead, per current indications, sweeps in and pushes a DNC guy from OC in SD County, they'll lose period. San Diego will not vote for any OC candidate period. The 49th belongs to San Diego, where Issa lost big to Applegate, not OC. Voters in SD will vote that issue over candidates; we have zero affection for OC. SD comprises way more than a majority of the 49th demographic. .

Instead I hope they study Applegate's effective ads, strong progressive positions, military/private accomplishments. Then learn from his extraordinary grass roots campaign, finally work with him not against him.

I'm thrilled that the DNC is going back to the fifty State strategy and coming to Ca to really fight for Congressional seats(esp in often overlooked SOLA) I've been a proud, active Democrat over 50 years but the tone deafness, the incompetence of the DNC(DSCC, DCCC) can be mind boggling to me. I hope it doesn't happen in the 49th.

but i suspect the dems will do nothing different.

which means they will continue to ignore it and continue to lose many no brainer elections and come close on many others merely because of that

money in politics? here's the simple math dems continue to ignore:

If the GOP paid $1000 for one hour of radio time, each station, at 15 hours/day x 5 days per week would be worth $75,000/week. 1200 stations are worth about $18MIL/day or $5BIL/year FREE to sell the Republican agenda.

88 universities help 257 limbaugh stations attract advertising by broadcasting sports on them.

there are dem students at every one of those unis that coudd make an issue of that and scare away a lot of advertisers

257 stations would be worth $19MIL/week, or more than $1BIL/year.

I think your estimate is conservative. The rise of the GOP to dominance can be correlated with the end of the fairness doctrine 1987. It was a key factor in the Republican tsunami that happened in 1994.

There are so many younger (than I) voters who don't even remember life without those blowhards on talk radio and Fox spewing untruths and hate.

Now, unless you have satellite, you are likely to get green bile spewing evil.

after that there were a lot of symptoms of it - money in politics, media deregulation, voter suppression, etc that are wrongly analyzed as causes.

destroying the talk radio monopoly would move the whole country 10- 20 pts left and should be a priority for the next elections.

progressive groups and the dem party let 88 major universities broadcast sports on 257 limbaugh stations without complaining - it's absurd for progressive student groups to keep putting up with this crap

complaining would start community discussions that would send advertisers to the hills

politicians about talk radio

maybe the new dems will be more receptive but i usually get the impression most of those people live in incommunicable safe zones protected by staff that make those decisions

interested.

One of the best talk radio shows on the Dem side that I've come across, is Randi Rhodes (thanks to whoever recommended her on here). She was only talking on her Friday show, how difficult it was for her to get on SiriusXM.

at least on internet

staffer's machine

that's generally par for the course methinks, but i'll try again.

Democrats are seriously handicapped by needing to deploy truth and policy arguments (just forget process altogether!) against dramatic right-wing lies; but otoh, the bad guys are running a race to achieve their ultimate victories before their supporters wise up. That's only one reason why Rump and the Dark Money extremist agenda are such dangers: they're the cold water in the face.

If we can find purple neighborhoods where it wouldn't take much to switch why not have a blue group that could move in? So many people work from home there's no reason not to give this a try. "Mobile Unit Seven, let's get you into sector twelve." Hells bells, put them in mobile homes and have blue caravans. "Circle your wagons Mobile Unit thirty-three there's incoming red hostiles."

Oh dear...the imagination is in need of restraint.

I just pray every morning when I get up that Trump, Pence, McConnell, et al, are in jail.

take back the House and Senate.

Please oh please rid us of the scourge of those forced birth demanding, climate change denying asswipes. Ed Royce and Dana Rohrabacher have had their grotesque butts in those seats for far too long.

She'd win by 15 or more right now. The Repubs in those seats are in for a brutal 2018 and rightfully so as they are some of the most repugnant House members not from Alabama, Tennessee or Texas.

50-state strategy

we need this in 100 conservative held seats/districts and flip 60 of them in 2018

Hillary actually beat 45 in OC and the recent elections are showing a clear closing of the repuke stronghold gap.

I argued with her about it; vote for the man, not the party, she'd always taught me.
She said Reagan was destroying so much of the good in her state, wanted to destroy public education, which I thought here claim was ludicrous and told her so.
She worked hard for the Dem party and she died on this day in 1988.
I feel her smiles today more than ever.
I didn't become a Dem until 28 days after her death and only did it to honor her, although I'd always voted Dem (except for one 'new' party)...
I ran for office this year in a RW Repub, fundamentalist county and I feel her influence and inspiration growing, even though it's been 29 years since her death
....and then there's the whole I love that Lujan is from my state, his cousin Michelle Lujan, who is an Emerge NM graduate, too, has been a 'safe' US Congresswoman but has announced she will be running for Governor. Good news.