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I'm asking, because I hear that they lost at the state level. That could be good, because the Republicans could use that to fix their electoral systems where possible.

Despite a record loss of offices for the Democratic Party during his eight-year presidency, Barack Obama believes that the problem is not the party’s values or policy prescriptions but the inability to “make the argument.” That’s what his top spokesman told Newsmax Friday in response to our question about the numerous news stories pointing out that Democrats lost 1,030 offices — U.S. Senate and House seats, governorships, and state legislative offices — during the Obama presidency. Noting that several reports conclude that this is the largest loss of offices for a party while it held the White House in modern...

If the Democrats want to know why they keep losing, all they have to do is run a replay of Martin Luther King Day. If they do, and if they are not brain dead, they'll immediately notice the difference between Republican President George W. Bush's MLK Day speech at Georgetown University and the rantings of the opposition party. In one speech, the president took pains to say how proud he was to be in the presence of the president of the NAACP even though that organization has never supported him, has frequently said disparaging things about him, and even ran...