Some Democrats acknowledge the Koch Brothers Gap

Attacks on Koch brothers contributed to Democrats’ midterms losses, party officials say



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Democratic officials are second-guessing the party’s obsession with attacking the Koch brothers, saying it bears some of the blame for last year’s devastating election losses as the focus on the conservative billionaires diluted a party message already struggling for clarity.



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“It raises money for sure. But is it good to motivate a voter? No,” said a state party executive director who said he didn’t want to publicly criticize the national party leaders.



And Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said campaign finances issues were “inside baseball.”



“Americans are focused on bread and butter issues and could care less about who is funding the campaigns,” he said.



Mr. Martin, who leads the campaign finance reform committee for the Association of State Democratic Chairs, said that the effect of money in politics was an important issue but “people don’t care.”



Sharon Stroschein, national committee woman for South Dakota, defended the attacks on the Koch brothers but acknowledged that the party’s message, such as touting the success of Obamacare, was “getting lost in the shuffle.”



“I’m not happy with how the message is getting out,” she said. “It’s frustrating that we can’t do a better job.”

I should have thought the problem was obvious: The Koch brothers spent enough to drown out the anti-Koch message. Only an idiot would suggest that the Democrats actually got their messaging wrong. Somebody needs to purge these dissenters from the ranks.