Democrats already searching for scape goats about losing?

 National Review:

Before voters even had a chance to head to the polls on Election Day, Democratic strategists and lawmakers had already begun placing blame for the party’s predicted losses.

Polling repeatedly suggested Democrats’ hyper-focus on abortion, “saving democracy,” and January 6 was ill-advised, but the party plugged along while Republicans campaigned on crime and inflation — both of which consistently appeared as top issues for voters in polls.

FiveThirtyEight has Republicans favored to take control of the House, where the party has an estimated 80 percent chance of holding between 214 and 246 seats. The race for the Senate, meanwhile, is a “dead heat” and will come down to close races in nine battleground states: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Now, an intraparty feud has erupted over what has brought the party to this point, just months after election forecasters began to suggest the predicted “red wave” may be more of a trickle.

Pundits and lawmakers are asking why the party ignored public safety and the worst inflation in 40 years.

In no place is the impact of crime as a campaign issue more obvious than in New York, where incumbent Democratic governor Kathy Hochul is facing a much tighter than expected race against Representative Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.), even if Zeldin remains the underdog in that race. Hochul has consistently made dismissive comments about crime in the state, including accusing Zeldin of “hyperventilating” about crime and “trying to scare people,” the day before Election Day.
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The Democrats botched the campaign on several issues and none more so than crime.  They mainly wanted to take about abortion which is important to roughly 17 % of the voters.

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