AOL: Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that Democrats lacked a “national advertising campaign” in the recent midterm elections and that he’s surprised many Senate races were not closer.
Clinton said in an interview with Politico that Republicans were helped by a larger bloc of voters who felt more strongly about the elections than members of his party. Democrats could have benefited from a national message that reinforced the party’s positions on refinancing student loans and promoting equal pay for women, he said.
“The people who were against us felt more strongly than the people who were for us. The people who were for us just in all the din couldn’t hear what was actually a fairly coherent economic message coming out,” Clinton told the publication during an event surrounding the 10th anniversary of his presidential center… (more)
EDITOR: The Democrats joined the Republican in running away from President Obama and Democrats, not motivated by their hero, stayed home. How dumb!
