“The strategist in charge of electing a Republican Senate majority thanked Democrats on Thursday for keeping President Barack Obama on the sidelines and building their campaigns around women’s issues instead of making an economic argument.
Rob Collins, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told reporters in a postmortem session that Democrats “sidelined their best messenger” by running from Obama.
“They were so focused on independents that they forgot they had a base,” Collins said of Democratic campaigns. “They left their base behind. They became Republican-lite.””* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/06/politics/nrsc-call-obama-messenger/