So I was at TOP deleting my old diaries on this rainy day, and I ran across two that I posted right after the 2014 election debacle.
If you listen to the talking heads and shills, this election is obviously nothing like any other election in history.
In reality, its the very same voters with the very same grips. So allow me to re-post a few selective items.

Everyone is talking about why the Democrats lost, but almost no one has looked at who lost.

  To put it simply, look at this:

 Having comprised 10 % of the Democratic Party's caucus in the 113th Congress, the Blue Dogs will have accounted for 50% of the Democratic Party's lost seats (7 of 14 seats) during the 2014 midterms. Members of the centrist New Democrat Coalition account for the balance of lost seats. The largest membership organization within the Democratic Caucus, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, lost no seats to Republicans.

 That's a pretty powerful message. This is the coalition that helped push through the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform bill with the help of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
  On Tuesday the Democrats biggest upset losses were from here.

Blue Dogs are notorious for being disloyal to the Democratic Party. In 2007 the Blue Dog Coalition refused to contribute to the DCCC due to anti-war comments from the Progressive Caucus. Back then the Blue Dog Coalition was nearly four times as large as it will be in January.
   The Blue Dogs also got crushed in the 2010 elections.

The progressive base showed up Tuesday. The conservative voters who weren't the base didn't.

 There is a lot of reflection going on today and a lot of navel-gazing, but what I don't see is the most obvious reason why the Democrats got creamed yesterday - It's the economy, Stupid!

 The economy was voters’ most pressing concern as they cast their ballots in the midterm election, with seven of 10 rating conditions poor, preliminary exit polls showed.

 Most Democratic operatives, here and elsewhere, will tell you about how many jobs have been added since 2010, and how the unemployment rate has been cut, and those other groovy economic stats that prove that the economy is growing at a more than acceptable rate.
   Yet the voters didn't buy it. Sure you can blame Fox News, the DLC, Ebola, the Illuminati, and the voters themselves, but that will get you nowhere.
  For those of you that are old enough to remember, this looks suspiciously like 1992, with the election results swapped.
Back then I remember the Republicans cried foul because Democrats made an issue of the economy (with the famous "It's the economy, Stupid") while pointing out that the recession ended in 1991.
  Apparently the fact that the economic numbers had turned up more than a year ago was supposed to mean that the economy shouldn't have been an election issue, and that the voters had been somehow bamboozled by Clinton.
  It was a weak argument, and it sounded weak. Bush The Elder telling the American public how great the economy was doing just made him seem out of touch.

Most Americans haven’t shared in the gains. Adjusted for inflation, the July median household income of $54,045 was $2,600 lower than in December 2007, when the recession began, according to Sentier Research, an economic-consulting firm.
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  Half of voters expect life to be worse for the next generation.

  Now in 2014, the economy has been growing for years and years. The unemployment rate has dropped to a lower rate than it was in 1992.
  Does that mean that the economy shouldn't be an issue?
  Only one group has the final say on what is to be an election issue, and it isn't the politicians or the media - its the voters.
  It seems that waving economic reports around doesn't translate into middle class jobs.
The Democratic base has turned out once in the streets, for OWS. It changed the rhetoric in Washington, but it didn't change the policies, and voters noticed.

 A potent majority was unhappy with the U.S. economic system itself, with nearly two-thirds of voters saying it's unfair and favors the wealthy and only 32 percent saying it's fair to most people, a shift even since 2012. (One percent deemed the economy "excellent.")