7th December 2016, 11:26 PM
Hillary's popular vote victory margin is now up to 2.7 million votes, a full 2% over Trump. It's insanely unacceptable that that's a losing margin just because of the electoral college... if Trump even won in the electoral college, that is, but I doubt we'll ever actually know that for sure.
But as for Pelosi, again, how would changing House leadership have much of an effect on those things? The House doesn't set policy for the states or state parties, after all. For the challenge of trying to compete nationwide down-ballot, probably the most important position right now is DNC chair, and that race is competitive. It was good to see that one of the two people running, Keith Ellison, will resign his seat in the House if he wins -- we need a DNC chair dedicated to the job, no question about that. I hope that whoever wins focuses on building the party nationwide, it's very important and should be their main job. But as for Pelosi, I just don't see how replacing her makes some major impact. She does a good job at leading the Democratic House delegation, what's the big issue?
But as for Pelosi, again, how would changing House leadership have much of an effect on those things? The House doesn't set policy for the states or state parties, after all. For the challenge of trying to compete nationwide down-ballot, probably the most important position right now is DNC chair, and that race is competitive. It was good to see that one of the two people running, Keith Ellison, will resign his seat in the House if he wins -- we need a DNC chair dedicated to the job, no question about that. I hope that whoever wins focuses on building the party nationwide, it's very important and should be their main job. But as for Pelosi, I just don't see how replacing her makes some major impact. She does a good job at leading the Democratic House delegation, what's the big issue?
Weltall Wrote:Current House (and party) leadership has had eight years to prove, repeatedly, that they are not up to the task of doing well in elections on any level that are either seriously contested or not currently in their control. Why not change House leadership now?Most of that is because of gerrymandering, not House leadership strategy. As we all know the Republicans have been VERY successful at gerrymandering themselves into a near-permanent majority at both the state (in many states) and federal level, despite losing popular votes on a regular basis.