Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Why Are Politicians So Dumb?
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November 9, 2014
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13:12Now Playing"For all the finger-pointing among Democrats over Tuesday’s election calamity, the White House, Congress and party establishment all share responsibility for weaknesses that the defeats laid bare, critics say, and should confront them as the 2016 contest takes shape.
The problems are fundamental, involving questions of where Democrats focus their party-building efforts, what voters they talk to, and most crucial, what they say to those voters. Missing this year, many Democrats say, was a broad economic message to enthuse supporters and convert some independents.
While the Democrats’ loss of their Senate majority owed much to the fact that they were defending so many seats in the Republican-friendly South and West, that dynamic only underscored the lost promise of President Obama’s famed 2004 declaration that there is no red and blue America, only a United States of America — a belief he reiterated, “for all the cynics who say otherwise,” on Wednesday."* Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) and RJ Eskow break it down on The Young Turks.
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