Talk radio is mostly conservative.

I listen to talk radio quite a bit. It seems to me that most of it is anchored in the right among quite a number of qualified and interesting conservatives.

By contrast, there is no one on the left since Alan Colmes died.

It seems odd, therefore, that lefties and their typically bizarre views seem grossly overrepresented in national politics.

Who are they representing, insulated academia?

The Democrat Party has taken over most of the media.   The reason they can't take over talk radio is because they can't defend their arguments against people who call into the show. Does NPR take dissenting callers?

Liberal talk radio failed for the same reason CNN and MSNBC struggle. Hatred. Hate and anger are off putting and liberal hosts are full of it. They rage and when they're not raging they are lecturing. No normal person wants to hear or watch that. They hate everything and furthermore they can't defend their policies because it's impossible to defend the indefensible.

I do not understand how they can possibly win elections when they are so hated.

Lummy wrote:I do not understand how they can possibly win elections when they are so hated.

Interesting, ain't it? Let's see, there's stuffing ballot boxes, ballot harvesting, paying illegals to vote, "miscounting" the ballots, mail in ballots oh and of course there is always the trusty corrupt software route! Why you can always cover the windows up to cover the corruption and pay off the judges...

Lummy wrote:I do not understand how they can possibly win elections when they are so hated.

They are very adept at getting voters to hate their opponents more than they themselves are hated.