2016 Postmortem

Obama is a Saint in my view so I'm less critical (and objective) of him with regard to downballot problems. For the most part that was a function of an increasingly motivated white electorate who saw white patriarchy beginning to be challenged and in the case of the presidency, crushed in 2008. Your point about propoganda comes into play in the following year, particularly i with the messaging on ObamaCare.

But I lay most of the blame at the feet of the DNC whose job it is to plot long term strategy with regard to party policies and messaging. In my view it wasn't so much of a case of Obama's team not knowing how to manage that, but rather a case of them not being able to manage that war front and the other, larger and vastly more critical governing front, at the same time. This would be a tall task in good times, and even more difficult in the age of obstruction Obama expeeienced.


It's fair to say the Wasserman-Schultz era was an epic dumpster fire.

As to Grayson's messaging on our healthcare system I couldn't agree more. This is not a country that does nuance very well and often I think the party as a whole, and yes even Obama himself, can be too nuanced in how they convey ideas and their objections to GOP policies.