Progressives Have a Solution for the Mid-Term Disaster

[Kevin]

All the money and resources should have been directed toward Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Alaska, states where the margins ended up being the narrowest. That's where the mistake was made, because if those states had been the main focus, we would have maintained them. Lots of resources were put into Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky, when it would have been better to spend that money elsewhere.

The map to a majority isn't in red states, it's in purple to blue states. Democrats did not go nuclear on people like Gardner and Ernst early enough, they need to totally tank their favorables early on, but they failed to do so.

Progressives spent over somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million+ against Thom Tillis and attacked him hard early but it still wasn't enough.

What makes you think it would have been any different if the Dems had just concentrated on the states you mentioned? Esp. without hindsight AR, KY, and LA looked holdable.
 

[Kevin]

Daily Kos suggested moving Florida and other states that went Republican this year to presidential election years.  I thought that interesting, that the Left viewed the defeat through tactical and strategic lenses, rather than the more simple analysis that they were simply suffering from an unpopular presidency.

Obama at 44% (with 54% disapproving) probably would have replicated a similar result. Democrats stayed home because they were among the ones disillusioned. Moving left would not work if the fundamentals (people feeling good about the economy, etc) were not there.

Exactly,

When you have a President in his 6th year with declining approval ratings and people don't feel good about the way things are going. The result simply isn't going to be good for the incumbent party.

I mean just look at GWB for that example,

I find it very interesting how the Left in general is blaming everything else except the President's unpopularity and their inflexible campaign strategy for what happened on election night.