Re: [North Georgia Democrats] I don't think our Georgia campaign was ran badly,...

W Lorraine Watkins commented on Tom McMahan's post in North Georgia Democrats. W Lorraine Watkins 1:25pm Nov 17 Also the admittedly few Democrats who won nationwide including the south ran as progressives supporting the ACA and Obama. Comment History W Lorraine Watkins 12:20pm Nov 17 Blue dogs didn't win in the south either. It will be up to the southern voters whether they want to be part of the progress of the Democratic Party and the nation as a whole and embrace the populism rising in culture and politics of the rest of the country as it is and is shifting. Ken Akins 10:57am Nov 17 Populism is the common thread which has bonded Democrats in Georgia in the past. Somehow we have lost that fervor of being the party of the common man. Frank Gilkeson 10:45am Nov 17 we are all populists now. Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as hopes and fears) of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite.[1] Populist sentiment contributed to the American Revolutionary War, and continued to shape the young United States afterward.[2] While for much of the twentieth century populism was considered[by whom?] to be a political phenomenon mostly in Latin America,[citation needed] since the 1980s populist movements and parties have enjoyed degrees of success in First World democracies such as Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, andScandinavian countries. Christina Taulbee DeLaigle 10:41am Nov 17 At the banks with wire transfers. Jimmy Holbrook 9:59am Nov 17 But where in Republican red Southern states did those candidates win in this election? View All Comments Original Post Tom McMahan 6:03am Nov 17 I don't think our Georgia campaign was ran badly, but the results would indicate the essential truth of this article. Simply being "Democratic" or simply being "Liberal" or "Progressive" alone isn't enough yet. We don't have a large enough pool of voters to reliably count upon yet for victory. Wendy Davis's Campaign Was Bad, But That Probably Didn't Matter fivethirtyeight.com To the surprise of few non-partisans with the slightest bit of electoral awareness, Democrat Wendy D... View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.