The new Dem leadership is rushing to deliver quick results to a maddened base that wants something now. Special elections have become their tool for getting it. Their gimmick, after rigging town halls with furious pro-ObamaCare activists, is to treat special election results as a referendum on Trump and ObamaCare.
There are only two problems.
1. They have yet to win a special election. So far instead they're celebrating their losses because they performed above expectations. But they only performed above expectations because they plunged $8 million into one local race from Hollywood celebrities, along with a whole lot of volunteers, and still have yet to actually win. And also because...
2. Special elections have much lower, motivated turnout. Differences between a special election and the 2016 election don't necessarily reflect changing public sentiment. And the Obama Dems are selling political snake oil to their donors and activists by pretending that they do.
Special elections draw really motivated voters. It's a good sign to be able to do that. But when you're trying to tout percentage increases as proof that your enthusiasm has somehow undone the 2016 shellacking, you're engaging in fraud.
This has the fingerprints of Obama's people all over it. Fire up the base. With anything. Organize, turn out and then act like winners. But a strategy built on a lie has an obvious hole in it.