Learning from Loss Quotes

“Many in the party saw in her the same things they had seen in Hillary Clinton – feminism, mastery of policy details, a confident intellect, and so on – and it worried them. Many were gripped with the idea that these qualities had cost the party votes in 2016.”
― Seth Masket, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020

“It was telling that those Super Tuesday states where Biden did the worst and Sanders did the best – especially California, Colorado, and Utah – were the states with substantial early voting.”
― Seth Masket, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020

“Biden claimed a victory of sorts – “The press is ready to declare people dead quickly but we’re alive and we’re coming back and we’re going to win!” The media largely went along with his “comeback” framework,”
― Seth Masket, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020

“I would rather win with Lucifer than lose to the Republicans again. Don Fowler”
― Seth Masket, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020

“A delegate to the 1972 convention protested, “There is too much hair and not enough cigars at this convention.”
― Seth Masket, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020