Todd Akin killed us

We would have taken the Senate in 2012 without him

I never felt confident Romney would win, he was just too milquetoast

I didn't think he would win

But we could at least take the Senate and pretty much ground Obama to a halt

Democrats grew in Congress because Obama's rock-solid Black base actually showed up to to vote in 2012

And we had some absolute retards in the tea party ruin it for us

Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin lost us 2 Senate seats on their own.

And they almost certainly had a nation wide impact (which would have lost us North Dakota for sure and probably Montana also)

Hey does anyone know how to make like a reddit bot?

I browsed /pol/ quite a bit in 2012

@GermanEastAfrica Conservatives have always been more quiet about openly talking about their political opinions

there was this group of people circlejerking that Romney was going to win

Back in the Nixon days they called it the "silent majority"

That phrase sort of made a comeback in 2016

We didn't win a majority tho lets be hones

Nixon definitely did

"Silent majority" periodically makes comebacks when it looks like a Republican will win but you hear much more support for the opponent.

Nixon was sorta like Trump. He called McGovern a commie hippy and everything.

And unlike Nixon Trump barely won

well if the shoe fits

It was a campaign message

1% and we're stuck with Madame President

I don't think they knew it was going to play out the way it did

The trump campaign was very smart at social media

even though the ground game was actually dog shit

Anyways, yeah, leftists are much more vocal in activism and all that and the right wing isn't good at it

The ground game was decent

Not really

You had a bunch of rallies, Trump was stopping in diners

That's not a ground game

A ground game is people knocking on doors, making phone calls.

Not Trump just popping around for a bit

Well then that's different

Trump doesn't need a ground game because he's a household name

Hardly

Everyone knew-to some capacity-who Trump was before the campaign.

There are plenty of people on our side who don't vote, aren't registered, etc

He was a giant in real estate

You do realise a ground game isn't just to spread name recognition?

Everyone knows who Hillary is as well