2016 Postmortem

Each state gets a fixed number of EC votes. The vast majority of them are decided by popular vote in each state. You can't gerrymander your way out of that.

I'm afraid that we keep losing frequently because we refuse to listen to the voters and pay more attention to donors. I've been worried since he first Clinton administration that the union/blue class voter was ripe for the picking by the GOP. They finally found a candidate that saw that. The Rockefeller republicans joined the Democrats decades ago and have shifted us away from the lower middle classes. It's finally caught up with us.

The most disturbing fact out of this election was that the GOP had upwards of 17 people that thought they had a chance in the primary, and the democrats had 3, maybe 4 if you include Biden. Our bench is thin. We can argue why, but none the less our two most dominate candidates both qualified for Medicare. We haven't been developing the talent we need. Furthermore, fuller primary fields with more debate produce better GE candidates. It forces them to hone their message and prepare better, not to mention gets them more exposure.

We need to develop a deeper bench. We need to encourage, not discourage, more competition and challengers. Oh, and we need to stop running the same losing candidates over and over, regardless of how much we like them.