Why did Democrats struggle in national elections throughout the

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>How else can Mondale and Dukakis get BTFO so easily?
You should check the popular vote

>>1120747

Being independent is suffering.

>>1120747
They still won several "liberal" states. And even if you look at the popular vote, those differences in percentage points would never be that wide in this day and age.

>>1120761
the 2008 election has almost the same percentages as 1988

>>1120784
But how did conservative candidates still carry supposedly liberal states?