Brown shoulda followed own advice

When Sally Boynton Brown, the executive director of Idaho’s Democratic Party, announced she would seek the national party chairmanship, she could not offer a record of success.

Idaho Democrats have not won the governor’s office since 1990. They haven’t elected a U.S. senator since 1974. And no Democrat has won the state’s presidential vote since 1964.

Even worse, the party suffered the loss of four more legislative seats last fall.

What Brown could provide the Democratic National Committee was an insight into how and why people much like those in her own Western state - middle and working class, white and conservative - would vote in sufficient numbers in just the right precincts to hand the White House to Donald Trump along with the House and Senate to the GOP/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here.