Record turnout in 2020?

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by itshim

Highly doubt it.

This idea that they can replicate Barrack-like numbers in 2008 come every election year is chasing rainbows.

Plus, the Dems don't have a competent message, candidate or idea.

Their party is like Iraqi politics with different factions vying for dominance.

Besides, they used the "race" and gender gimmick already. That hard has been played.

Plus the Womens March was a flash in the pan. They used that up

It's hard to disagree with your first comment, as President Obama was a very singular man.

But as to the rest, well, there is nothing at all unusual with either party falling into disarray, especially after 2 terms of a presidency.
Sometimes the disarray lasts for some time, but not always. Both parties have pulled themselves back together very often in time enough to make comebacks in the off-year elections. We have seen it happen twice since 2000, where the disarray of one party was used to the advantage of the other.

The women's march may have been just a flash in the pan, or it may have been the beginning of something that grows larger and more powerful. Again, we have seen this recently, too; the Tea Party managed to rouse a big demonstration in Washington in early 2010 that changed the Congress, so it may be too soon to say just how important the march was or not.
Sometimes the causes fade away, sometimes not. Only time tells.

While you may think race and gender are gimmicks, that comment could be easily disputed. They may have not come into play in 2016 as much as they did in 2008, but that's no sign of anything that indicates a gimmick.

It does show campaign outreach failure. Again, that failure has caused both parties to lose voting blocs in the recent past. Neither party is immune to making mistakes like this, and both parties have repeated their mistakes over and over.