{"id":16501,"date":"2016-12-05T04:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=16501"},"modified":"2016-12-05T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:43:19","slug":"what-is-the-future-of-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/what-is-the-future-of-the-democratic-party.html","title":{"rendered":"What is the future of the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What is the future of the Democratic Party<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>What is the future of the Democratic Party:-<\/strong> The widespread celebration from the right of the political aisle is counter by the confusion from the left, which is finding the result of presidential election hard to stomach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They don&#8217;t know that Hillary lost a couple of weeks ago,\u201d President-elect Donald Trump said at a recent rally. \u201cI don&#8217;t know. Where do these people come from?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The better question might be \u2013 where are they headed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Barack Obama is out. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is retiring. Republicans hold positions across the board. So how serious is their situation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI would say it varies from like a 5 to a 7 out of 10, maybe even 8 depending on who you ask,\u201d Elana Schor, Politico\u2019s Congressional reporter, said. \u201cCertainly liberals and the Bernie sanders wing of that party have been at that level already.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The search for new leadership on The <\/span>Hill,<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> has become a top priority &#8212; debating fresher faces like Keith Ellison and Corey Booker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI think there was a lot of recognition, that President Obama was a great brand at the top of the ticket and secretary Clinton was less <\/span>so<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> to put it mildly and that\u2019s why they\u2019re not hitting the panic button yet,\u201d Schor added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While Clinton fell short, candidates like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein saw their vote totals triple from 2012 to 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere\u2019s still a sense of shock about this,\u201d John Samples, Vice President of The Cato Institute, said. \u201cCause they couldn\u2019t imagine who they could lose to Donald trump, that\u2019s part one. Part two is the <\/span>other<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> shoe has not dropped yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meaning, when and if Republicans route Obamacare or undo his executive orders, that\u2019s when Democrats will be forced to reflect\u2014but Samples says, not completely, revamp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOf the last seven presidential elections the Democratic candidate has received the most votes in six of them,\u201d he said. \u201cEven with a weak candidate like Ms. Clinton, they were still about to turn out with the most votes so there\u2019s still some strength with the party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But he says if Democrats are to dominate again, they need to do what Republicans have over the past eight years &#8212; build a better farm system of politicians at the state and local level who help you win across the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/what-is-the-future-of-the-democratic-party<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/what-is-the-future-of-the-democratic-party.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the future of the Democratic Party What is the future of the Democratic Party:- The widespread celebration from the right of the political aisle is counter by the confusion from the left, which is finding the result of presidential election hard to stomach. 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