Been through this stuff a million times. No surprises.
The thing that people miss (and clearly, the white house insiders miss it, too), is that love for a President doesn't translate into good Congressional candidate options, well-executed local district campaigns, adequate campaign financing, or defensible incumbent records.
Regarding records, the current "leadership" situation in congress is abysmal. "Dem leaders" (I'm convinced that this term is now an oxymoron) refuse to bring important legislation to the floor for votes.
The problem with that is that it fails to give voters a record on which to assess incumbents of either party. "Dem leaders" feel that avoiding controversy makes it easier to campaign because incumbents don't have to defend their votes. The flipside of that cow@rdly practice is that they 1.) have no ACCOMPLISHMENTS to crow about and 2.) Dem candidates looking to unseat Repugs have little to attack.
R candidates will cheerfully make stuff up about Dem candidates (easy to do when the candidate or party has nothing to brag about accomplishing) and their core, energized base will slarp it down, paint some signs, and charge the polls. Unless Dems can match that assured turnout, [more] local races are going to be lost.
People are fed up with Congressional intransigence more than anything. And that pat.hetic strategy only exacerbates the condition, turning people off. We need accomplishments - and fast, otherwise the losses due to apathetic voters will be significant.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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