Dare I say it?
It's the economy, stupid.
Here's my $.02: liberals have done such a good job in dumbing down the country, the average American no longer listens to what they have to say. The evidence for that comes from the young woman who beat Crowley in the primary. For a veritable nanosecond, she was seen as the future of the Democrat Party...until she made several gaffes while being interviewed. Similar to how we on the right latched on to a couple of neophytes who claimed to be Tea Partiers several years ago...Katrina Pierson comes to mind.
I know my history, and it was James Carville who coined the above phrase. I work with quite a few younger folks who are clueless when it comes to even contemporary history. They just don't care, aren't inquisitive at all. A bit O/T, but I was talking with one about the new Mission Impossible movie, it really does look interesting to me. I told the young man about watching the TV series when I was growing up...it was only on for a dozen years or so, but he was flabbergasted that was the genesis for the Tom Cruise movies.