The Florida Democratic Party is in disarray following a slew of Republican victories in the midterm election. The Florida Times-Union reports:

TALLAHASSEE – Before noon on the day after Tuesday’s GOP election sweep, the first public call for Democratic Party leaders to step aside came down.

“It’s remarkable (Florida Democratic Chairwoman) Karen Thurman hasn’t resigned by now,” state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, said just after Democrat Alex Sink gave a concession speech in the governor’s race Wednesday morning. “There needs to be new leadership of the party….All the success we had two years ago, they just let that die.”

Both elected and rank-and-file Democrats are angry, and understandably so. Republicans now control the governor’s mansion, cabinet, senate, and most of the Congressional delegation.

“Something needs to change,” said Bud Chiles, who ran briefly for governor this year as an independent, but is a longtime Democratic voter and son of former Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles…

Chiles said the problem goes beyond Tuesday’s election – noting Republicans took over the state Legislature in the 1990s and have beaten Democrats in many years since then.

Of course, Democrats are trying to convince themselves that they lost because of a failed GOTV effort or because the message became garbled, rather than because voters are rejecting their failed policies.

As long as they continue to believe as much, they can replace all of the party heads they want and they’ll still lose. It’s the policies, stupid.