The Democrats' internal research has been quietly churning out autopsy reports regarding the 2016 election debacle, and the results are disastrous.

Unlike the GOS, they don't blame the loss on racist Bernie supporters, nor Putin! Putin! Putin!

Instead the reason cuts to the core of the Democratic Party's raison d'être.



One finding from the polling stands out: A shockingly large percentage of these Obama-Trump voters said Democrats’ economic policies will favor the wealthy — twice the percentage that said the same about Trump. I was also permitted to view video of some focus group activity, which showed Obama-Trump voters offering sharp criticism of Democrats on the economy...

“[Hillary] Clinton and Democrats’ economic message did not break through to drop-off or Obama-Trump voters, even though drop-off voters are decidedly anti-Trump,” Priorities USA concluded in a presentation of its polling data and focus group findings, which has been shown to party officials in recent days.

The poll found that Obama-Trump voters, many of whom are working-class whites and were pivotal to Trump’s victory, are economically losing ground and are skeptical of Democratic solutions to their problems.

In other words, exactly what those "racist" progressive Bernie supporters have been saying for over a year.

This is coming from the Dems' own internal polling!

Of course those voters are giving Trump waaayyy too much credit, and will soon be forced to recognize their mistake, but that doesn't mean the Dems have an economic message to bring them back.

Hold on a second. You are probably thinking, "Tell me something I don't know."

Here is where the rubber meets the road - the reaction of the Democratic Party.



Much of the debate over how to move forward has centered on whether the party should try to win back working-class white voters – who make up the bulk of Obama-Trump voters – or focus instead on mobilizing its base.

Turning out the base, the data suggests, is simply not good enough.

“This idea that Democrats can somehow ignore this constituency and just turn out more of our voters, the math doesn’t work,” Canter said. “We have to do both.”

OK. Once again the opposite of what you might read on the GOS.

So what do the Dems plan to do about it?



That debate is complicated, she added, because some Democrats think winning over voters is already a lost cause.

“There’s still a real concern that persuasion is harder and costs more than mobilization, so let’s just triple down on getting out the people who already agree with us,” she said. “And I think there’s a lot of worry that we don’t actually know how to persuade anymore, and so maybe we should just go talk to the people we agree with.”

Good Lawd! Seriously?

Let's keep doing what the math says won't work because anything else is hard. This is a one way ticket to irrelevancy.

When even 44% of Democrats say the party is out of touch, and they can't bring yourself to reform, you are looking at a political party on its way to oblivion.