not minor, if only people would realize their governor has a far greater effect on their lives than the president or their senator

here's the GOP talking point in a nutshell which you are up against under a Trump presidency, NCD. From Trump's speech at a rally in TN tonight, live tweeted by Daniel Dale, here is the concluding statement:

He's rarely that succinct and his rally speeches are rarely that short, t's pretty obvious to me that as a final summary line, it was given to him by pros as important talking point.

Every time a Dem talks elite in any way, that's the one they can really hurt with. (HalC types use it, too.)

It's the political correctness, stupids, together with people on the internet and MSNBC telling people that they are idjits for voting non-Dem. You can't both be the party that gives priority attention and acknowledgement by it's elites to the resentments and grievances of minority tribals over whites and give back in kind to that ruling class slur. It doesn't work. The Dem elites want to talk about "dumb voters", they have to talk that they are equally dumb, not just the black working class are smart for voting Dem and white dumb for voting anti-Dem, to counteract this accusation. I.E., they have to talk class, as opposed to race, ethnicity or gender.

Is it dumb that people fall for this? Yeah. But name calling those without education doesn't win them over, they dig in their heels and believe the Karl Rove line, for decades you haven't won them back from that. It still plays well everytime "they" are called stupid.

I totally understand bashing them while doing an analysis. But I don't understand why any devoted partisan would do so. Seems real counter-productive to me. And in that vein, I totally get why Bernie Sanders is seen by some as not doing enough "outreach" to African Americans....because he didn't want to look like he was favoring one cultural tribe over another.