Tim Kaine had the perfect opportunity to explain how the Democrats are listening to the people, really hearing them. Instead he told us how nothing would change when they get (back) to Washington.

Asked how the Clinton team would bring a deeply divided country together, he explained they had experience "working across the aisle" with Republicans, both him and his boss, Hillary Clinton.

1. First, all politicians say that, all the time, and it's increasingly not true.
2. Second, you didn't answer the question. The country isn't in Washington, it's everywhere but Washington. That's why people who support Trump who are just Americans, and not white supremacists, are supporting him. On the slim chance that he might wake you guys up to realize that we all need help, and we want to help, and the Republican party line that government has to get out of the way is exactly not what the people are asking for. 

Here was a chance to explain how the Democrats actually do work for normal people, much more than Republicans. And then just give the standard HRC talking point, how you are going to be the president of everyone, not just the people who voted for you. It's a good one.

We all need help, and many of us want to help more than we have been. What we need and don't get from our leaders is leadership. If you can do that, forget about working across the aisle, you won't need to.