Why? Here’s why…
A. They start after two Dem wave elections. It was the high pt for Dems since 1990
B. Legislative seats are stupid metric that’s not…
C. If you compare the number of lege Chambers or Congressional & Senate seats Dems control today to what Dems had in 2005, it’s about…
D. There’s the problem of Appalachia & the South. We still had a lot of conservative White Dems representing Southern states/CD’s…
…that had been voting Repub or were among those where McCain did better than Bush. (2010 we held 3 of Mississippi’s 4 House seats).
E. If we win back a thousand seats in 2018—which is plausible—pretty sure ppl pushing that stuff won’t say Dem party has improved.