Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. In 2014 voters deliberately fired Democrats with cause from control of the United States Senate. Americans were fed up with years of inactivity and dysfunction and said enough is enough. But losing the U.S. Senate majority was just the latest in a long line of electoral defeats for Democrats and now they are offering voters more of the same in 2016.
Despite years of rejection they are running the same old tired campaigns. They are not recruiting unique different candidates. To the contrary all of their top recruits look an awful lot like the crop that voters threw out in 2014.
Voters have grown tired of their malicious dishonest campaigns. But Democrats clearly learned nothing because they are running the exact same campaigns in 2016 they did in 2014.
In almost every democracy in the world political parties who lose landslide elections respond by deposing their leaders and conducting autopsies on their strategies. But Senate Democrats routed in 2014 have instead doubled down on failure and thats why they will fail and Republicans will win again in 2016.
Since President Obama took office Democrats have been decimated at every level from the Senate to state legislatures. Since 2008 they have lost 13 Senate seats 69 congressional seats and over 900 state legislative seats.
The American people are not buying what Democrats are selling. Some four months out from Election Day 2016 its clear that Democrats have learned nothing from the last eight years.
Take the battleground states of Wisconsin and Ohio. Democrats so-called prize recruits are both retreads who voters have already rejected. Furthermore Democrats have bruising costly primaries in at least four key states. They failed to recruit a top tier candidate in North Carolina and dont have a credible candidate in Iowa a state Barack Obama won twice. If the DSCC manages to pull all of their endorsed candidates into the general they will arrive badly damaged. If they dont they will be stuck with candidates like Joe Sestak (in Pennsylvania) and Alan Grayson (in Florida) who they have already deemed unelectable.
The few policy ideas they are promoting are stale and outdated. Their signature policy item from 2015 has been the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal that Americans do not support and fear will make us less safe. This tone-deafness strikes a similar chord to another recent experience: Every Democratic senator who crafted Obamacare lost re-election or chose to resign instead of facing their fate at the ballot box.
Republicans will maintain control of the Senate because they have better-prepared candidates running better more coherent and more thoughtful campaigns. They have studied both parties successes and failures over the last several cycles have learned from their own mistakes improved their strengths and developed new innovative ways to reach voters.
The same cannot be said for the Democrats across the aisle.
Democrats lost in North Carolina Colorado Alaska and Louisiana last cycle because they ran the same campaigns they have run for years.
Republicans will not make the same mistake in 2016.
Despite Senate Republicans electoral successes in 2014 the have thrown everything out and started over from scratch. Every Republican campaign this cycle will be at the very forefront of technology and innovation in critical areas such as digital outreach and voter contact.
They have recruited the superior candidates who should do an excellent job representing their constituents and are taking nothing for granted. They appear to be making sure their candidates have every tool they need to be successful building sophisticated campaigns and raising the resources needed to win.
Make no mistake about it; Republicans have their work cut out for them. But they appear to understand nothing will be handed to them in this interesting and unpredictable 2016 election.
