Posted on 04/01/2015 3:31:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republicans are debating whether their path to the presidency in 2016 runs through the blue-collar Rust Belt states, or the demographically changing new South and Sunbelt states. For Democrats looking to retake the Senate, however, the formula is more clear-cut: Win back white working-class voters, or be consigned to a longer-term minority.
Most of the Senate battlegrounds run through the Midwest—Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio—along with New Hampshire, which carries demographic similarities with those older, whiter Great Lakes states. To defeat the vulnerable Republican incumbents, Democrats have a challenging task ahead: Making inroads with blue-collar voters, who have been stubbornly resistant to the party's agenda since Barack Obama's time as president.
It's no coincidence that Democrats are turning to candidates with biographies tailored to appeal to this constituency. Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth announced her candidacy Monday against Sen. Mark Kirk by touting her working-class upbringing and service in the military. Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who represented a blue-collar district in the House, is the expected Democratic nominee against Sen. Rob Portman. Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a populist who championed campaign-finance reform during his last Senate tenure, is eyeing a comeback against the businessman who defeated him in 2010. And former three-star Navy Admiral Joe Sestak, a former two-term congressman from the working-class Philadelphia suburbs, is an early front-runner to face a rematch against Sen. Pat Toomey.
Exit polls show that Rust Belt Democrats performed dismally among non-college-educated white voters in these states in 2010. Feingold won just 40 percent of their vote in 2010, five points behind Obama's vote share in the state two years later. In Ohio, Strickland tallied just 40 percent of the working-class white vote in his reelection bid—a 20-point decline from his first gubernatorial campaign.
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Notice how Obama says that he was against gay marriage, and then abruptly "evolved" into being a raging gay marriage supporter even to the point of denying Christians their first amendment rights?
Don't be fooled again.
Yeah, one step right and three steps left.
The ‘Rats have done this for forty years. Pretend to represent the American people just long enough to get elected — and then go about the business of destroying America.
Anyone that believes this is anything other than another typically cynical and dishonest ploy by democrat politicians, known for their cynicism and dishonesty, is hopelessly naive.
Can’t move any further left without gassing Jews...
Democrats becoming republicans...... Oh goody...
Pubbies must push the reality that it doesn’t matter who the Blue Stste Dems send to Congress, they will be at the mercy of the far left Democrat leadership.
RE: Democrats becoming republicans...... Oh goody..
HA HA HA, Sorta like Arlen Specter, who went from Democrat to Republican back to Democrat, depending on the way the political winds blow...
Any sane person would look at the Dems and realize they’ve gone way off the deep end.
White folks voting for Dems is like begging to be relegated to non-person status.
Racist? Yup. They sure are...
moving right?
Not happening.
The stuff happening now would have been laughed at as impossible 10 years ago
Thank you for my new catch phrase...
“That guy can’t move any further left without gassing Jews”
Hell! I thought when republicans failed to get the Latino vote they would never win any more elections......hummmmmm!!!
With the GOP in control of a majority of governorships and state houses, they have a launching pad for high profile, qualified candidates for national office. They also help an incumbent Republican with fundraising and exposure.
For the past two election cycles, Rats have poured all their resources in the presidential election and neglected anything less. Obama has wielded incredible power from that office, but he can’t stay there forever.
Dems are always “evolving”. I think the rest of us just call it lying. They vote for radical laws in Washington then put on a moderate face when they visit back home. “What happens in Washington, stays in Washington.” ;^)
“That guy can’t move any further left without gassing Jews”
Stalin starved an entire country to death.. THEN SAID...
” ONE DEATH IS A TRAGEDY, but.... A MILLION OF THEM IS JUST A STATISTIC..”
They told white voters to literally f@ck off. Specifically white men.
Never forget. Why we’d want socialist bastards who hate white people elected, I’ll never know.
Feingold will not win. I would love to see liberals waste more millions for zero results.
“which carries demographic similarities with those older, whiter Great Lakes states. “
Anyone who believes this complete crap doesn’t know the Great Lakes states.
You're right bean counter... that's the way to deal with this...
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