Two generations of the Democratic Party brought us back from a party that had been kept out of the White House for 20 of 24 years (excluding Watergate which is a leading reason Carter won in 1976) . Several of those elections were landslides. We became a party that defeated two incumbents and the only losses were narrow (lost Florida and thus the electoral college vote in 2000 by 537 votes while winning the popular vote). We only narrowly lost both the popular vote and the electoral college in 2004. Again we had only a narrow loss of the electoral college vote while winning the popular vote in 2016. We put together the first presidential elections in which the same candidate won more than 51% of the vote ( Obama 2008 and 2012) since BEFORE REAGAN (IE. REAGAN DIDN'T DO IT) . We won the popular vote by 7% in 2008, 4% in 2012, and 4.5% in 2020 and won more than 81 million votes in 2020. We regularly win more votes cumulatively in both Senate and House elections.
https://www.270towin.com/historical-presidential-elections/timeline/
That's damn impressive! Look at the 1968 and 1972 and 1980 and especially 1984 electoral college vote map and 1988 was a landslide win by the republicans as well. They won 5 of 6 presidential elections, most handily. They held the White House for 12 straight years. They were dominant and our political party had a poor reputation among voters. Now, we almost always win the most votes cumulatively for the Senate, not infrequently the same is true of the House of Representatives, and we have won the majority of the popular vote in every presidential election since 2004 and our popular vote wins are by 4% or more. While everyone knows that presidential elections are decided by who wins the electoral college vote and we struggle to get majorities in the Senate which is because it is anti-majoritarian and favors land over people, winning more votes cumulatively in Senate and House elections and winning the popular vote in a presidential election matters because it shows that voters prefer our political party and identify with our message.
Look where the country has gone from ideologically from 1980 to now. Look at which policies now have majority support and who drove those ideological changes. Was it the Republican Party? Clearly not. Look at the policies that are favored by most democrats. We are the tip of the spear, the head of the snake. We are driving this bus. And that's true whether we retain our majority in the House of Representatives or not. Obviously, I feel it's imperative to do so.
We are on the right path and we should be proud of our political party!