Posted on 02/22/2015 4:04:18 AM PST by Libloather
The Democratic Party lacks a “single narrative” and must tighten its pitch to voters in order to compete in future elections, an interim report from the Democratic National Committee found.
The report released at the party’s winter meeting recommended forming a national project to bring together party leaders, activists and messaging experts to hone in on a theme.
Currently, the party is “loosely understood as a long list of policy statements and not with a common set of core values,” according to the report.
The review was launched last year shortly after Democrats lost control of the Senate in the midterm elections, while also losing additional seats in the House.
“We are Democrats because we believe in an economy where hard work is rewarded, and because we are focused on building a stronger and more secure middle class,” DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) said.
The report notes the party has lost 69 seats in the House and 13 seats in the Senate since 2008. It has also given up the majority in 30 state legislatures and 11 governorships in that time.
The party is pushing a six-year plan to win back state legislative chambers across the country in order to have a stronger voice in the 2020 redistricting process.
The report also recommends forming a more comprehensive voter registration project. Democrats should work on pushing state parties to be self-sustaining, while also developing more Democratic leaders at the state level, the report advises.
The full recommendations to be released in May will focus on several other areas as well. Those include exploring ways to peel off more white southern voters, while revving up support among base Democrats. The party will study what prevents some constituencies from voting with Democrats and what motivates drop off and independent voters.
It will also explore reaching voters in specialty media and digital platforms.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus mocked the preliminary report Saturday after hearing that it was nine pages long.
“Sounds pretty serious,” Priebus tweeted.
The GOP launched its own similar review, commonly known as the Republican autopsy, after losing the presidential election in 2012.
The GOP can be blamed for failing to even try to exploit those faultlines.
Democrats self-sustaining? LOL!
Pretty sure it’s because Americans are seeing through all their BS actually. about time.
Ever notice how Obama and other Dem’Rat politicians always
harp on working hard and getting ahead? Whatever happened
to working hard AND working SMART?
Thanks Obama.
The Democratic case for Impeachment
By Derrick Wilburn
With each new extra-constitutional action taken by President Obama (they’re slowly becoming too numerous to count) a chorus of impeachment talk inevitably rises then just as inevitably fades. Conventional wisdom is that hardline establishment Republicans or Tea Party-backed hyper-partisans would be the ones to lead the impeachment charge. But in this case, conventional wisdom is flawed. The ones who ought to be doing any and everything within their power to impeach and remove this president are our nation’s Democrats!
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/the_emdemocraticem_case_for_impeachment.html#ixzz3STjKXzr9
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I can think of one other major political party that has no demonstrable set of core values.
Not to give Pelosi credit, but lack of a coherent message is always a problem. Rather than completely mock, maybe the GOP should come up with a coherent message.
Can anyone really say what GOP stands for?
Repeal of Obamacare?....not really
Tough immigration laws....ha ha ha
Limited government......I don’t think so
Lower taxes....not with some of GOP advocating a higher gas tax
Simplified tax system.....no one seems interested in carrying this forward
Reform.....another K street laugher
I despise Pelosi, but there is some wisdom in what she said. The strategy of “not being the Democrats” usually only works one or two election cycles. The last time the GOP had a plan was “Contract with America”. There is no national GOP leadership, just conduits for cash.
Inviting millions of illegals to come take jobs when so many Americans are jobless isn’t helping them much.
The Southern white person is lost to you forever, as long as you promote killing babies, gay marriage, affirmative action that discriminates against whites, anti-Christian policies and attitudes, and gun control, to name just a few of your planks.
Name ONE thing that you democrats favor that is shared by Southern whites?
What? More welfare? Free meth? Not enough votes in any of that...
‘We came to destroy the country.’
“2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.”
Enter TPM ( Talking Points Memo ) which emails out the story line to millions of libtards each morning so they all know what to say about issues, and attack lines on non-libtard candidates.
“Currently, the party is “loosely understood as a long list of policy statements...”
This mean little cow is beginning to sense the failure of the “loosely” understood policy.
Their “single narrative” is the disaster called Barack Hussein Obama.
“Hard to get more focused than “death and taxes.”
Exactly. The Democrat Party, the party of death and taxes.
The Democrats simple need more big money donors from foreign countries.
The communist DemocRATS need to stick with their mythical “war on women”. The ‘RATS need to do everything they can do to keep themselves separated from the Islamofacists they are importing into America to kill Americans.
The longer we avoid peaceful means, the more certain violence becomes.
Depends on how you define ‘violence’. If you include perverting law and dismissing the God given rights of the people and using their own government to attack them and suppress their vote...then the violence has long since begun.
the declaration of dependence…
...endowed by their slavemasters with lies, tyranny and the pursuit and destruction of other people not in their collectives.
The report notes the party has lost 69 seats in the House and 13 seats in the Senate since 2008. It has also given up the majority in 30 state legislatures and 11 governorships in that time.
It's a good start. DEPOPULATE socialists/totalitarians and their enablers from the body politic. DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic. Reach-across RINOS up next.
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