Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
In states where we had a real organization, where they did the work of registering voters, we survived. The bottom line is that candidate quality does matter, but candidate quality isn’t necessarily what a lot of pundits will tell you. Regular Republicans who are good enough in a good year are not good enough in a bad year. They took their voters and their reelection for granted, and the Democrats took their seats. That was on us. We can’t blame the voters. What we’ve got to do is do better. And we’ve got two years to do it.
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