The MountainGoat Report

Tax Cuts For All (Who Matter)

You get a tax cut and you get a tax cut and you get a tax cut!  Everyone gets a tax cut!

'Cept if you make less than $20,000 as an individual or $40,000 as a family.  Then you get a tax increase!

A holiday spending-spree of tax cuts that will cost $900 bazillion gazillion (does it really even matter any more?) coapted to the already monstrous deficit that, we're reminded daily, is a very, very, very frightening thing.

Tax cuts for the wealthy.  Tax cuts for the middle class.  Tax cuts for the dead.  But not the working poor.  Nope, the working poor get tax increases.

Who speaks for them?

A Wide Right Failure

A failed strategy leads to this:

Did you give credence to some of the early polling that showed Rep. Minnick with a measurable lead?

We were ahead in all of our internal polling all the way up to the final days. Every single undecided voter broke against Walt. I'll make one comment about some of the post-election analysis: There seems to be an assumption that Democrats stayed home. The reality is that there are a lot fewer of them. The state has become a lot more red. More Democrats became independent and more independents became Republicans.

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But if you did have a few minutes with some people who could rebuild the party, where would you start?

By not worrying about rebuilding the Democratic Party. The state is ruby-red Republican, and likely always will be. Any advice I would have to give would be to accept that reality and move on. Do not assume that you're going to get the state to change. It's Republican. It's conservative. Your strategy needs to be built around that reality.

Failure.  Failure to understand that the failed strategy led to the failure.

It may feel better to blame the failure on a variation of a Bruce Hornsby lyric... but it doesn't make it so.

Good riddance.