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OK, photo aside, here are some theories as to why. You won't find a single theory to support the photo, so don't bother looking...well...OK...there are some polls here but...
In June, a poll by Latino Decisions/Center for American Progress Action Fund found that 54 percent of Latinos would be less enthusiastic to vote for Democratic candidates if Obama broke his promise to use executive power to fix the immigration system by the end of summer. Latino voters likely to abandon Dems Albuquerque Journal News
What fundamentally ails the Democrats, rather, is the same ailment that afflicts incumbent parties throughout the advanced economies, and parties of the center-left in particular: their inability to deliver broadly shared prosperity as they used to do. Harold Meyerson Democrats lost because they didn t deliver broad prosperity - The Washington Post
Democrats are going to lose for the same reasons Republicans are going to win. Gerrymandering will work against the Democrats; and because of the gerrymandering favoring the Republicans, voters who usually vote Democrat, even if they go to the polls, just won’t matter. Democrats won t lose because of black voters.
There are literally dozens of more "speculative reasons" but here's one of my favorites:
Democrats Lost Because They Weren't Progressive Enough People voted for the GOP this cycle because Democrats didn't get much done. Obamacare was progress, but it only truly affected a limited amount of people. And even for the people it did help, Democrats basically ran away from it. Where was Obama, on the stump, leading the media narrative, berating the kind of savage mindset that leads Republican governors to block healthcare expansion in their own states? This move was a national outrage. You can't just blame the media. If Democrats make this an issue, it will be an issue. It should have been a daily outrage the way Fox News was freaking out about Ebola. Yet Democrats ran from it. Democrats Lost Because They Weren t Progressive Enough#
So did middle voters reject democrats because of
1. Lack of mass amnesty for illegal hispanics?
2. Failing to reverse the Bush/Cheney economic crash in 6 years?
3. Gerrymandering?
4. Lack of 100% free healthcare courtesy of Obama-comprimise?
5. Lack of enough support for importing ebola to self-monitor in this country?
Or was there some other common thread that united the middle voters against the dems?
Your speculation is welcome.