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Narrow Loss For Democrat In North Carolina Is In No Way A “Win” For Democrats!
Yet all we keep hearing the day after an important Republican victory is how it’s Trump who should be scared…
We realize that it’s the job of a lot of pundits to spin, and opinion writers to have opinions; they’re paid to. (Ourselves included!) And that involves cheerleading at times for the pundits, and offering different perspectives for the opinion writers. And we’re not questioning whether the data they’re looking at is real and valid. But we just don’t think what we’re seeing today is the type of spin, or perspective, that will lead to future wins these days. (That is, saying “it’s OK, we’re/they’re getting close, we/they got ’em in the Midterms, we’ll/they’ll get ’em next time”.) Seems to us that’s what a perpetually losing coach tells his team. Then if/when they do win, it’s a nice surprise. But it never becomes do-or-die. The message has got to become much more ruthless.
We hate to keep repeating ourselves, but close doesn’t count in politics. So a win is never “actually” a loss, and a loss is never “actually” a win. The loser gains no influence in Washington. The winner gains all of it. Even if it means closing a traditionally huge gap in a traditionally Republican district. Even if it means nearly winning…
