Why the Left Loses elections

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That will be determined this summer, after the Democratic National Convention.

The Democratic nominee must win a majority of the “delegates” which the potential nominee won in “primaries” and “caucuses.”

A “primary” is like a pre-election election. Only Democrats can vote in a Democratic primary.

Probably a lot depends on this.

Yep. That’s true.

We'll see what happens in the campaign. We have a long ways to go.

the real progressive and.....whoever the hell it is that still supports hillary clinton are two completely different beings.

this liberal is not particularly edumacated except by the school of hard knocks. still, this liberal recognizes the deplorableness of many of his working class neighbors who have bumper stickers on their trucks [WHY always a GD big@$$ed honkin' truck for christ's sake? but there it is] exclaiming various execrable calumnies against the left- democrats, gays, blacks, uppity women, etc. the racism/sexism cannot be denied. the ableism can't be denied (IOW "i got mine so screw you!"). yet, i have equal venom against the purity democrats who by default gave us the orange menace [by staying home in a snit because they didn't get everything they wanted] and put my old age security in real jeopardy [just wait, next term, he WILL be gutting social security and medicare, he will take the next election as license to screw over the rest of the poor]. many of these same people who stayed home were the ones with the picket signs with the inevitable result of their staying home manifested. we have the government we deserve, and we have indeed met the enemy [US].

Education is a luxury, not a given among both parties, I would think. There are still plenty of people in the US who are first generation college graduates.

Education helps, but it doesn't mean that everyone who doesn't have a degree is stupid. Those calling each other idiots as a means to describe why they lost an election, are falling short of the mark. I don't believe anyone is entirely an idiot unless they are ret*d. If someone has a normal IQ, they are not stupid. They might be ignorant, but that can be remedied. It can't be that they see things my way though. If it gets me my way in an election or not, I still approve of freedom to make up one's own mind. And not to be ridiculed for it.

It's interesting that I consider liberal leaning voters as having a lack of morals and integrity, where as liberal leaning voters consider me to be stupid and greedy. Either way, both need to go and I don't know how to get there. The group whose choice is not in office is always the nasty, aggressive one. They group whose pick won feels like they are being persecuted. And by my calculations this has been going on for the last 30 years, maybe longer and I'm just more acutely aware of it.

What to do, what to do? This voter does not know.

In the UK age is the primary factor when voting for a party . What is the primary factor in the USA ?

that is a depressing map, and red useta be my fave color, back in 1980 the roles were reversed- the GOP was blue [bluebloods] and the democrats were red- in fact, in a newscast, david brinkley famously, tartly observed that in the wake of the Ronnie Raygun landslide, the map of america "looks as blue as a suburban swimming pool."