While national Democrats didn’t have a lot of good news on election day, “Democrats swept the four open seats [in Saratoga Springs] and elected the state’s first Asian-American city mayor and the city’s first out LGBTQ woman of color to the council. How we did so, particularly for Ron Kim’s winning mayoral campaign, is a good blueprint for Democrats across the state and the nation.” So says Achim Bergmann, a political strategist with clients in 30 states who is also a member of the Saratoga Springs Democratic Committee. He analyzes lessons learned in this Times-Union commentary.