LIKE OLD MAN RIVER – AT 10:51 A.M. ET:  The "reasons" for the Democratic loss just keep rolling along.  Maybe the Dems should just practice some silence.  From The Hill:   

President Obama is blaming his party's electoral losses this year on Democrats' failure to "show up" and make their argument all around the country.

In an interview with NPR broadcast Monday, the president said the country has a "scrambled political landscape."

"There are some things that we know are a challenge for Democrats — structural problems," he said.

Obama noted that Democratic voters are often clustered in urban areas and on the coasts.

"So as a consequence, you've got a situation where there're not only entire states but also big chunks of states where, if we're not showing up, if we're not in there making an argument, then we're going to lose," he said.

"And we can lose badly, and that's what happened in this election."

Obama said he doesn't think the Democratic Party's problem is its core argument. The values presented by the Democratic Party have strong support, he said, citing the minimum wage.

"There are clearly, though, failures on our part to give people in rural areas or in exurban areas a sense day-to-day that we're fighting for them or connected to them," he said.

COMMENT:  I'm glad he noticed.  Only now are Democrats starting to realize the full extent of their electoral disaster.  It's not just the presidency that's involved.  The party is in its worst political position in almost a hundred years.  The House, the Senate, state legislatures, governorships – all centers of Democratic loss. 

Will the party change?  Will it move back to the center left?  Will it recognize its mistakes?  If the answer to all three questions isn't "yes," the Democratic Party may cease to exist as a national party.  It's partly there already. 

December 19, 2016