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Originally Posted by opendoor
That's complete hyperbole. They won the Presidential vote by 3 million votes despite having a seriously flawed candidate. They reduced the vote spread in the House election from nearly 6 points in 2014 to just over 1 point which is their 4th best result in the last 10 elections. And they won the Senate vote by over 11 points, compared to losing it by 5 points when this same group of seats was last contested.
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The reason if feels like Dems got destroyed was because shortly before the Comey email bomb there was talk of flipping the Senate and even an outside chance of the house. And the opponent was Trump so unless one was a Trump supporter it felt like he was self evidently disqualifying. Every election though most people fall back to their party and vote along party lines and the margin of victory or defeat is very small. So when things came back from unlikely landslide to a traditional level of victory/defeat, it felt worse than it was.
In the end Dems made gains, won the popular vote, lost the electoral college by one of the lowest margins ever due to a full football stadium's worth of votes, I really think the "destroyed" narrative is overstated.
Where they continued to be hemmed in was at the local levels.
So the plus side of that destroyed narrative is progressives seem to be taking local politics much more seriously, which hopefully will result in more competition at the state and lower level.