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Democrats agree: They ignored, talked down to rural voters, and lost them
The Quad City Times ^ | October 14, 2017 | Erin Murphy Lee, Des Moines Bureau

Posted on 10/14/2017 8:00:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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“What happened in Iowa (in 2016) unfortunately and tragically has happened all over the United States. Because our party, for whatever reason, stopped showing up and stopped competing effectively in rural areas,” said Tom Vilsack, the former two-term Iowa governor and U.S. ag secretary for all eight years of the Obama administration. “We stopped understanding the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations, and yes the frustration and anger of those who live, work and raise their families in rural areas. We forgot how to talk to folks, and when we did we often talked down.”

LOL! It's because your party said "Screw the White voters!!!" But you can't come out and say that publicly can you?

21 posted on 10/14/2017 10:10:47 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats destroy the Middle Class. It's what they do.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did the card board cutout of Hillary have a hard time standing up too? (was it realistic?)


22 posted on 10/14/2017 10:37:00 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why was a cutout of HRC there? How bizarre.


23 posted on 10/14/2017 10:43:58 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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“Our future is not how we talk to rural Iowa,” McCoy said, “but rather how we listen.”


Evidently that is the result of the latest focus group..................


24 posted on 10/15/2017 12:03:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Billthedrill

Bicoastal Ghetto

is the Democrat Party.


25 posted on 10/15/2017 12:35:35 AM PDT by TheNext (Win Win)
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[snip] “Calling them deplorables or focusing on an identity politics that speaks to every group that’s not them will not accomplish that,” Goldford said. [/snip]

IOW, letting the mask slip a little to confirm once and for all what the jackbooted Party of the Single Party State is really about has damaged their brand, making it difficult to build a “durable majority”, in order to be able to brand little eight digit numbers on our arms.


26 posted on 10/15/2017 12:35:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A cardboard Hillary?

Just a little gust of wind, and Hillary goes down flat on her face. Somehow that seems appropriate.


27 posted on 10/15/2017 12:44:02 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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28 posted on 10/15/2017 12:46:18 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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In effect, The Democratic Party has become the party of the denizens of fictional capital city of Panem from the Hunger Games novel trilogy.

I suggest reading especially the first novel, "The Hunger Games." Suzanne Collins' vivic description of the denizens of that capital city from that novel as indulgent, parochial and sanctimonious is a perfect description of the Democratic Party of 2017 with its urban-dominated voters.

29 posted on 10/15/2017 2:47:26 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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Export jobs, import millions of illegal aliens and give them lots of freebies, discriminate against straight white rural males in employment, and then tell them they are ignorant.

That is the Democratic plan—but since they figured rural white people are Neanderthals they could make it happen.

Who are the Neanderthals now?


30 posted on 10/15/2017 3:25:00 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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“Sounds to me like their only intent is to sucker their former voters into coming back...”

Exactly. They’re in quite a pickle. They’re either going to have to change their wicked, wicked ways and policies sincerely, or lie their asses off to snooker the dem and independent voters. I believe that the voters are beginning to see through and question simple rhetoric, so the politicians actually will have to take some action before they’ll win anyone over. If they take actions that are reasonable, then they’ll lose the loony alt-left. What’s a crook to do?


31 posted on 10/15/2017 3:36:25 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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Lying is a politician’s Plan A, B, and C.

There is no plan D.


32 posted on 10/15/2017 4:36:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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How can you tell whether it's a cardboard cut out or the real Hillary Clinton?

And I agree in a sense with the premise of the article. They're right - they need to be genuine, and go loud and proud, full hard left, like they really want to. Until and less they get to the left of Karl Marx, announce it proudly and then stay there, they're never going to go anywhere with the American people. That's what they need to do, and we need to help them with that message where ever possible.

33 posted on 10/15/2017 4:55:40 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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How can you tell whether it's a cardboard cut out or the real Hillary Clinton?

Look at the profile. The real Hillary is now a fat slob; cardboard is thin in profile.

34 posted on 10/15/2017 5:29:56 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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If the RATS follow their usual MO, they’ll treat the rural voters as another interest group to manage by creating a formal outreach effort with a staff and a so-called ambassador whose job is to talk to rural voters to give them the warm and fuzzies that Democrats care about them because they’re now recognized as, ta da, an interest group. There will benot one iota difference in the Democrat message that actually alienates rural voters, but by golly, they will have ambassador talking to them now. We saw how well similar outreach has worked for the RATS with evangelicals.


35 posted on 10/15/2017 6:50:40 AM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

And they’re both fake. :-)


36 posted on 10/15/2017 7:15:52 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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37 posted on 10/15/2017 8:22:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Luke21

No kidding. It’s ridiculous.


38 posted on 10/30/2017 6:24:54 PM PDT by NorthstarMom
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