I love a good meta-pie as much as the next person and I've certainly been in my share over the last two days. But after a brief break and a little thinking I realized that I was wrong about a number of different things. The most important being what cost the Dems this election.
We all know that there were a bunch of razor thin races, and that the dems lost those races overwhelmingly. We can sit and blame the dems for not being progressive enough, which I agree with, or we can blame the progressives for not being excited enough and not doing enough, which I disagree with. But when it comes down to brass tacks the reality is that in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and possibly Texas and Kansas as well enough people were disenfranchised that they could have swung the election.
This is the elephant in the room. As in the 2000 election the GOP won because they are liars and cheats and disenfranchised millions of people. I have a lot of problems with the Democrats, but that doesn't change the fact that they should have held onto the Senate and they would have if it weren't for voter suppression by the GOP. Until this stuff stops the Dems will continue to be out of power. No matter how much we here argue about what ideological changes have to happen or what tactical changes have to happen, none of tat will mean anything as long as the GOP continues it's efforts at voter suppression.