Some races played out as referendums on the president s first two years in office, other races had nothing at all to do with trump. In some races, hard edged ideologues won, and others, moderates tape it was basically a patchwork, no obvious takeaways from what happened last night. But there are some useful lessons, and that is what we would like to spend some time talking about tonight. What exactly have we learned from 470 individual Congressional Elections . Some big governors races, and the full year of political debate . The biggest news is that democrats just won back the house of representatives after eight years. They are thrilled with that, obviously. And yet they dont appear to have any idea how they did it. As of tonight, there really is no Democratic Program or platform or message, there is no democratic plan for making the economy stronger or the country safer. There is only donald trump, who they despise. The entire democratic message is trump. The president s often accus
First two years in office, other races had nothing at all to do with trump. In some races, hard edged ideologues won, and others, moderates did. It was basically a patchwork, no obvious takeaways from what happened last night. But there are some useful lessons, and that is what we would like to spend some time talking about tonight. What exactly have we learned from 470 individual Congressional Elections . Some big governors races, and the full year of political debate . The biggest news is that democrats just won back the house of representatives after eight years. They are thrilled with that, obviously. And yet they dont appear to have any idea how they did it. As of tonight, there really is no Democratic Program or platform or message, there is no democratic plan for making the economy stronger or the country safer. There is only donald trump, who they despise. The entire democratic message is trump. The president is often accused of narcissism and making everything about himself, b