THE CONDITION OF THE DEMOCRATS – AT 11:57 A.M. ET:  It's terrible.  I almost weep.  Almost.  Well, almost almost.  From AFP: 

Washington (AFP) - Frozen out of power in Washington and having lost a string of congressional races this year, Democrats are struggling to craft winning strategies to convert disillusionment with President Donald Trump into victory in 2018's midterm elections.

The party fielded a hodgepodge of candidates in four special elections in recent months, including a banjo-strumming cowboy poet in Montana. Most recently Democrats nominated a young novice in Georgia, where the party, judging it had its best pick-up opportunity, threw millions of dollars into the race.

Yet each time, Republicans beat back the advances. And Democratic lawmakers, strategists and party officials have been left scratching their heads about how to turn it around and launch a viable bid to reclaim Congress next year.

"They're definitely licking their wounds," Kerwin Swint, professor and chair of the political science department at Georgia's Kennesaw State University, told AFP.

Debate has swirled among Democrats about what strategy to deploy: going all in with a nationwide anti-Trump agenda, or tailoring individual races to local economic issues in a bid to repair fraying connections between the Democratic Party and the common voter.

The Georgia race showed "the effectiveness of Trump's staying power" despite the scandals rocking the White House, Swint said.

"Democrats should not focus their campaigns about him, they should be about jobs," he added. "They need a much more focused economic pitch."

COMMENT:  This is not the Democratic Party of old.  This is the Democratic Party of Barack Obama.  Talk about the average voter, but never talk to the average voter.  I mean, who would be inerested in those dull people who work 9 to 5?  Where do they go on holiday?  Some local beach?  The Washington Monument?  Avoid these peasants!

June 25, 2017