Democrats Need to Get Back to Work
Democrats who have had a really bad week can either sulk or get to work on winning back at least the winnable Second District House of Representatives seat.
Whether the “dark cloud” was the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 or the “theft” of the presidency in 1990 or loss of the impeachment vote this week, whining doesn’t win back the right to govern; hard work wins elections.
At a recent political strategy session where I live in Arizona, so-called junkies were asked to go door-to-door or make calls or raise funds. Those who said to the organizers, “Oh, I don’t do that kind of grunt work.” deserve to be in the ranks of losers.
Look across the river to Abbe Finkenauer and Cindy Axne, the first women ever elected from Iowa to the U.S. House. They each beat Republican incumbents.
And they became part of the new House majority which the Democrats carried by winning a total of 40 more seats. In the 2018 House races, the Democrats won a whopping 8.6 million more votes than the GOP, more than in any race since the cycle just after the resignation of Nixon.
I’m sure determined campaigners have raked over the data from the last House race and realize that Rep. Don Bacon won by only about 5,000 votes and by carrying Republican-rich Sarpy County areas of the district.
More significantly, they see that fewer than 65% of registered voters cast ballots in the off-year election. Surely a light went on over their heads when they saw that wards two and four in Omaha are Democrat-rich but voting poor. Only 44% of registered voters turned out in the second ward, for example.
Could it possibly be that volunteers, a clear message and a great candidate could move two dozen registered voters in each of 237 precincts in Douglas County to cast a ballot for a Democrat? Every true Democrat knows that the hard-working GOP team has already vowed to do just that for their side in 2020!
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