Posted on 08/19/2017 7:39:17 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The AP’s fear is that Democrats’ obsession with President Trump will prevent them from communicating a positive agenda to voters:
Trump upset Democrat Hillary Clinton on the strength of his support from white voters, particularly working-class whites who possessed a combination of economic frustration and racial resentments salved by Trump’s promises of immigration controls, law-and-order and a booming economy.
Clinton, meanwhile, concentrated so much on Trump’s deficiencies and outlandish statements that her own policy proposals received less attention. That’s a problem that has beset Trump rivals since he first declared his candidacy: All the attention focused on Trump — even unflattering stories — prevent them from getting out their own messages.
Overlooked by the AP is the possibility that the Democrats have no messages of their own to communicate. Which reminds me–whatever happened to the Russia collusion story? It was of world-historical significance until it disappeared overnight, succeeded by a new opportunity for Trump-hatred.
Which doesn’t seem to be of much significance to voters. Rasmussen finds that the president’s approval rating hasn’t been significantly affected by the hysterical attacks on him following the violence in Charlottesville:
Despite the media furor over what the president did and did not say following last weekend’s incident in Virginia, his approval ratings appear little changed.
Over time, the Democrats’ perpetual hysteria will only make them look silly. The biggest thing they have going for them is the timidity of Congressional Republicans. If the Republicans stop reading the Washington Post and the New York Times and get on with the business of governing, the Democrats have no answers on the level of policy.
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What, ‘positive’ agenda? I’ve not seen one from the ‘Rats since the days of Kennedy!
“The biggest thing they have going for them is the timidity of Congressional Republicans. If the Republicans stop reading the Washington Post and the New York Times and get on with the business of governing, the Democrats have no answers on the level of policy.”
Wouldn’t THAT be refreshing? Spineless Complicit Traitors, in too many cases. Grrrr!
> racial resentments salved by Trump’s promises of immigration controls,
claptrap
Trump needs to do more rallies..one a month
Forget the GOP helping him this year
Needs the Cabinet appointees to do everything to get the economy going..
It is the economy stupid..
And find candidates to primary rinos in 2018
..its a long game
If the GOP does nothing they cannot blame Trump..they may try but the hat is out of the bag
It won't take *over time*.
They looked like idiots right from the get go.
Does AP believe it’s own propaganda or are we suppose to believe it?
“The biggest thing they have going for them is the timidity of Congressional Republicans.”
You mean complicity of Congressional Republicans.
Trump needs to do more rallies..one a month
...
Does anyone remember Reagan directly appealing to voters to contact their congresscritters about particular issues? It was very effective. Trump should try it.
Reagan never had the 24 hour news cycle..just the evening news ABC<CBS<NBC<NPR
People here are news junkies..
I bet if they took a poll 80% would have no idea what is going on in the world..
Exactly claptrap!
They voted for Trump BECAUSE they were tired of being accused of racism just because they were white.
And YES, a lot of the Left, certainly BLM, believe just THAT.
But Leftists/democrats/DNCMSM, keep pushing and saying that, because you’ll surely be pushing these voters in that direction—voting for the Right. Even when Whites become the minority in this country, they’ll still be by far and large the biggest plurality of voters.
STOP with the identity politics and just maybe you’ll win elections where there are few minorities, too.
So the AP notices a mistake out of the Demonicrat cornucopia of lying, murdering, treasonous mistakes? It's probably similar to one out of the AP's cornucopia of lying, murdering, treasonous mistakes.
Those weren't "racial resentments," they were frustrations over cheap imported job poachers. It didn't matter what race they were, it only mattered that politicians and employers were giving American jobs away.
-PJ
Take your pick from the Demonicrat agenda: Kill unborn children. Kill old people. Swim in the sewer of sexual perversion. Attack Christianity. Destroy the Constitution. Surrender to the Muslims.
“...communicating a positive agenda to voters: ...”
A “positive agenda”???
What, as in “We’re POSITIVE we can make communism work THIS time!!!! We’ll be the RIGHT PEOPLE in charge this time, and we promise not to kill so many of you in the process THIS time! We’re Positive!”
Anything other than that, and they’re lying. But that’s par for the course with them, isn’t it...
Jobs?
Crime?
Drugs?
No, statues.
” .... will prevent them from communicating a positive agenda to voters “
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They don’t have a positive agenda.
Their agenda is to transform our nation to socialism/communism. To do this, our current form of government has to FAIL. For it to fail, it can happy by an overthrow by the military OR civil disobedience and financial failure. Their agenda is the collapse of our current government to put in their own plan.
AP Ya think?! While they have unlimited funds backing them, it is a very good thing that deep down these people are....idiots.
Thats what I was thinking
The closest “ positive agenda” that’s gotten democrat voters to the polling booths has been free sandwiches and cigarettes
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