Sometimes you can't improve on a headline. Courtesy of Vox's Matthew Yglesias, "Republicans' 7-point win in last night's Montana election is great news for Democrats"
That's right. It's another Voxsplainer. Lefties have been leftsplaining to each other why the Dem strategy of trying and failing to win special elections in red states is a great move because it shows how weak Republicans are.
This is more from that same hilarious stewpot of denial.
Montana is considerably redder than the average congressional district. According to Wasserman’s calculations, in an election where Democrats got 50 percent of the two-party vote nationwide, you’d expect them to get just 39 percent in Montana. Quist scored 44 percent
I'm not even going to bother tinkering with the numbers. The premise alone is silly enough.
The DNC's 50 state scam is being maintained by measuring their defeats in special elections against regular elections. Special elections have much lower and higher motivated turnout. That means in safe districts, turnout on the Republican side will be lower. At least until the DNC decided to fight these pointless battles to regain credibility after a punishing defeat.
But really, Matthew Yglesias is claiming that his candidate losing by 5 percent less is a major development in a special election in which the Republican candidate had been arrested and had his endorsements pulled and was being denounced on every streetcorner.
And he still easily beat Bernie's candidate despite every lefty media outlet screeching even before the Guardian harassment incident that it was going to be a close election.
But hey, the Dems lost an election by 5 percent less to a candidate who had been arrested. This means really good news to whatever delusional donors are funding Obama's ongoing plan to rule America.