Of course they do. That is how progress is made - by envisioning what you want the outcome to be and planning steps to get there. There’s a word for that: strategy.
Yes, I do. Do you? After the email hearings and Benghazi and “deplorables” and not campaigning in swing states, she was up 20 points over T**** until the Friday before election day.
Come back from what, exactly? The polls didn’t move after the debate. The polls didn’t move after the shooting. The polls moved slightly when Democrats started calling for Biden to step down.
Because historically, incumbents overseeing a strong economy always win. And polls showed no one was better suited to beating T**** than Biden. You can find a post about that exact finding here on BoingBoing.
It wasn’t the party, though. The party apparatus was behind Biden. It was wealthy donors. We watched it happen in real time. People are tripping over themselves to deny it but that’s what happened. And that can’t be allowed to happen again.