It's Time for Some Real Talk. How Republicans Grab Statehouses.

Today, many Democrats are focused on the happenings in Virginia, Houston & Kentucky. For those that receive DCCC emails, you have of course already received the messages of "We are losers""Republicans Win" and so on, where they somehow bring in the Mississippi race, which was never even contested.

Democrats nationwide, however, can look at great victories, especially in Pennsylvania, but for most of us, the focus will again be: "what happened".

Now is the time for a very frank discussion, one which was led off this morning by another DailyKos diarist about the need to rebuild a fifty state strategy.

But now is time for some frank talk about the way in which Democrats run, organize, plan and work campaigns. I hear too often "Don't talk about this in public!""Who says this outloud!" After almost two decades of that logic, it's time to get very real about the current realities that face Democratic campaigns - and why Republicans do better than we expect at the state level.