The Pros And Cons Of The Democratic Party

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Accordingly, the 2016 elections proved how increasingly irrelevant the Democratic Party finds itself in large swaths of the country. Likewise, more than a third of all House Democrats come from just three states: California, Massachusetts, and New York. This recently exacerbated problem was relayed by Congressman Ryan on an appearance of NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “It’s time to do something about it, not just talk about it,” he continued. “Because now we’re not even the national party. We’re a coastal party. And we’ve got to move forward. If we’re not going to get voters in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, go back down south—when I first came to congress we had members from Tennessee. We have to go back there and campaign and get those folks