Conservative65
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You may be overestimating the value and meaning of the last election. Even if you disagree with the popular vote significance, the fact is that the country is still pretty much divided 50/50 when it comes to national elections. There are reasons that the power shifts from party to party every few cycles and swings back and forth like a pendulum.The obvious answer to the question posed in your OP is that the Regressive Left has put so much effort into making the Democrats so repulsive and annoying to so many Americans with your constant PC, Identity Politics, anti-freedom of expression antics and personal insults of anyone who dares to disagree with you.The dupes go for character assassination and ridiculous promises rather than looking at the actual policies they're for...cutting Medicaid, blocking background checks blocking minimum wage hike and pollution remedies...etc etc
Your habitual use of the word "dupe", for example.
Turns out many people won't vote for people they just dislike on a personal level. Who knew.
And amazingly, after all this pushback, you folks still refuse to see it. Must be because you're just smarter than everyone else, too.
Next.
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Since the overall popular vote doesn't choose the President, it has no significance. When it comes to elections at the national, state, or local level where popular vote does pick the winner, seems Democrats lost over 1000 seats between 2009 and 2017 when Obama was in office.
The Democrats aren't losing seats anymore. The pendulum has swung.
They lost the highest seat and until they regain the thousand + they lost, it's still a net negative on the books.