Dems’ own disloyalty disserved them

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To the editor:

Many registered Democratic Party voters could see through the hypocrisy of their candidates for governor, Senate and the House of Representatives. With one hand, they gladly accepted President Barack Obama’s assistance in raising millions in campaign funds.  Yet, with the other, these same candidates refused to be seen in public shaking hands with the president and campaigning with him side by side.  

Worse were those Democrats, such as Kentucky’s Alison Lundergran Grimes and others, who could not even come out of the closet and publicly admit that they voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012. 

The Republican candidates’ margin of victory could have been different had many Obama supporters, both Democrats and Independents, come out to vote instead of sitting on their hands and staying home. Other Democrats counting on the star power of both former President Bill Clinton and former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as substitutes for President Obama, in many cases, also lost. 

The Clintons could not even deliver their original home state of Arkansas for incumbent Senator Mark Pryor. Time may have taken away some of the former influence of the Clintons. Democrats counting on Hillary Clinton as the best candidate for president in 2016 may want to rethink this strategy.

LARRY PENNER

Barack Obama, Democrats, Larry Penner

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