Bill Clinton Explains why Democrats Lost in the Midterms

‘The people who were against us felt more strongly than the people who were for us’

“The people who were against us felt more strongly than the people who were for us and the people who were for us just in all the din, couldn't hear what was actually a fairly coherent economic message coming out ...

We didn’t have, again, a national advertising campaign that might have made all the difference in a couple of close races, but it would not have changed the larger outcome ...

We've got to learn about that and I think the Republicans are also doing that too because I know enough of them and I have talked to several of them, and a lot of them were surprised by their victory margins. A lot of them won by four, five, six, eight points more than they thought they did. Some of them who put their own money into the campaign in the last week once they saw how much they won by probably wish they had their money back.”(Laughter)

 

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