More than 18000 Vermonters wrote in Bernie Sanders for president

Democrats beat Republicans on social media, just about every key battleground state, and they connected significantly better with women, young voters, and Hispanics, the latter of whom voted 71% Democrat.

Still, Democrats and pontificating pundits have spent the past week since the election unable to see the forest for the trees.

Attention: Democratic Leadership and Members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Pat Toomey, who narrowly won re-election, said Trump and Republicans still need to demonstrate they deserve to stay in power in Washington.”There’s no such thing as a permanent majority”, Harris said.The election highlighted longer-term trends in Pennsylvania.In the past decade, Democrats added 300,000 registered voters, while Republican registration was flat. “And I think Democrats will probably have a fair amount of ammo to use from Trump or Republicans in Congress”.

The Democratic Party will hit a new nadir in state legislative seats after suffering more losses in November’s elections, highlighting the devastation up and down the party across the nation.

“It is time for the Democratic party to reassess what it stands for and where it wants to go”, he said. Where did Democrats go wrong? Sanders called election night a depressing evening.

“He talked about raising the minimum wage to $10”, Sanders said. The DNC could become a political hubcap working in concert with the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for large-scale fundraising and aggressive candidate recruitment.

Hillary Clinton and her campaign showed a level of arrogance and over-confidence that must never be repeated by any future Democratic nominee.

“If anybody has any ideas, let me know”, Sanders laughed, replying to the question at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.

State legislatures matter not only because of the laws they can enact, but due to their influence over the redistricting process every ten years.

Clinton blames FBI director – Clinton said FBI chief James Comey’s letter to Congress, 11 days before the election, saying the agency’s was re-opening its investigation into Clinton’s emails, killed her campaign’s momentum. A third of rural whites – but only about a quarter of white city dwellers (23%) or suburbanites (28%) – believe their children will have a worse standard of living when they are their age. They can still have a robust anti-racism platform, just like they can support marriage equality while courting more conservative black and Latino voters, but if you write off the vote of everyone with personal biases, you’d end up with fewer votes than the Green Party. According to gallup polls from a year ago, Americans have not been this anxious about terrorism since 2001.

With the Democratic Party lost in the post-election wilderness, Vermont Sen.

Given the historic unpopularity of Donald Trump, one would expect Democrats to be gleefully critical of the new president-elect.

The GOP’s staggering advantage was accumulated over the span of the Obama administration, as it gained more than 700 seats in the 2010 mid term elections and almost 300 in the 2014 elections.

Republicans raised less than half of the money that was raised by Hillary Clinton, so money wasn’t as important as once thought. Most of these voters were not examining public policy and calculating their interests – except in the vague sense that they don’t like sending American jobs overseas and don’t want anyone messing with their Social Security.

The policy roadmap he proposes is much like the one he described during the campaign: a single-payer health-care system and tuition-free public college for all.

On March 1st the DNC will elect a new chairperson. He wants Democrats to pick sides.

They featured interviews with white male boomers who lost their jobs and had their pensions stolen to pay for Romney’s auto elevator. Someone who will stick up for unions, push for campaign finance reform and promote unity.

Sanders remains an independent, though he caucuses with Democrats and was just named to their leadership team as the new chairman of outreach, a position he described Thursday as working to transform America through the grassroots and get more people engaged in the political process.

I welcome any and all feedback.

Hence, I was not at all surprised that the day after the result, several of my friends contacted me to ask what this meant for the United States and also the rest of the world.