'Not normal': Top Senate Dem says activist trait 'has to go' to win midterms

One high-ranking senator wants his party's most dedicated activists to make fundamental changes to how they approach voters in the next election cycle.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico columnist Jonathan Martin, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) lamented that Democrats don't just have a deficit in information "infrastructure," but that Democrats don't take advantage of their limited opportunities to use plain language that ordinary Americans can relate to. The Senate's chief deputy minority...