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[Aaron Strife]

Its not ignorant at all. This is a white, affluent, suburban district. These are people who have never voted Democrat, and never will vote Democrat because the only issue they care about is taxes.

It's very ignorant for reasons already stated.

Ossoff received 48% of the vote in an all-party primary and Clinton almost won the district. It's an example of the demographic trends we saw overall in 2016 - more affluent, educated sun belt districts trending D while less educated rural districts shifted R sharply. Trump merely exacerbated the trend, but it was already there.

If you start writing off districts like this you can kiss any meaningful Democratic gain in 2018 goodbye. Winning back the House will be a tall order but it's ironic seeing the Bernie cheerleaders talk about lost causes.

 

[Stinkles]

Dems need to target districts. They can't go in with one message. Dem voters (as opposed to Democrats) want to hear something specific. It might be Bernie talk, it might be pragmatic soft edged capitalism, in an affluent Georgia suburb, it could even be "Trump is gauche" - but if they learned nothing else from the General, it should be, "Don't completely ignore ANY districts"

 

[Aaron Strife]

Dems need to target districts. They can't go in with one message. Dem voters (as opposed to Democrats) want to hear something specific. It might be Bernie talk, it might be pragmatic soft edged capitalism, in an affluent Georgia suburb, it could even be "Trump is gauche" - but if they learned nothing else from the General, it should be, "Don't completely ignore ANY districts"

This is true, I think the Bernie crowd is right that it's good for the Dems to have generic issues that everyone's on the same page on, but you need to cater to your district too. Figuring out what's important to local businesses and swing voters, running on your own issues so you're not just copy/pasting whatever Bernie or Obama's campaigns were. This is something Jason Kander in Missouri did really well and he ran like 16 points ahead of Clinton, even though he wasn't all that different from her ideologically.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Do the Democrats have a chance of taking the House in 2018? I know the Senate will probably not be possible until 2020, so they need to take the House if they want to kill Trump's agenda

 

[Ecotic]

Do the Democrats have a chance of taking the House in 2018? I know the Senate will probably not be possible until 2020, so they need to take the House if they want to kill Trump's agenda

It's very doable if Trump is unpopular. If his approval average is in the mid-30's then Democrats had better easily retake it.