Poll: Majority Say Dem Candidates ‘Out of Step’ With Most Americans’ Thinking

Free Beacon ^ | Jul 23, 2018 | Paul Crookston

[11th_VA]

In 2016 plurality of respondents said Dems 'generally mainstream'

A majority of respondents in a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of registered voters said Democratic congressional candidates are out of step with most Americans.

Asked whether Democratic candidates' approaches to the issues "are generally in the mainstream of most Americans' thinking, or are generally out of step with most Americans' thinking," 56 percent said they are "out of step" and just one-third said they are "in the mainstream." These figures are a marked swing from July 2016, when only 42 percent of respondents said Democratic congressional candidates were out of step and 48 percent said they were in the mainstream.

In the July 2016 poll, Republican candidates were seen as much less mainstream than Democrats, with 31 percent of respondents saying the Republicans were in the mainstream and 59 percent saying they were out of step. A slightly higher percentage of respondents in July 2018 see Republicans as mainstream (33 percent) and a slightly smaller percentage of them see Republicans as out of step (57 percent.)

That makes the current numbers nearly identical for both parties' candidates.

The poll comes as the Democrats' left wing has continued to grow in prominence, putting moderates and the party establishment on the defensive. Self-proclaimed democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scored the upset of the year by knocking out incumbent and No. 4 Democrat in the House Joe Crowley in a New York congressional primary in June...

[RipSawyer]

“Because all the REAL socialists end up in the elite ruling class where they accumulate wealth and live more extremely capitalistic lives than any Western venture capitalist you have ever met.”

You seem to be confused, stealing huge sums through government action is not quite the same as capitalism.

[GOPJ]

Democrats: White liberal 'elites', corrupt Intelligence Bureaucracy thugs and a large violent underclass propping all of them up.... what's not to love?

[HKMk23]

I wasn’t using the term “capitalist” in reference to how they GET money; only to how they SPEND it.

Socialist elites are leeches off the public coffers; that’s a known, and there’s nothing capitalist about that. But on the other end of the balance sheet, they spend and live high on the hog like every big name capitalist ever has: First Class jet set top to bottom.

[oblomov]

Get ready for more lecturing from the buffoonish elite on “political polarization”.