Posted on 01/16/2015 1:37:27 PM PST by Steelfish
Poll: Democrats Need To Win Over Blue-Collar Voters, Unmarried Women By MAGGIE HABERMAN 1/16/15
In the few horse-race matchups from the poll, Clinton beats out Mitt Romney by 6 percentage points and Jeb Bush by 12 points, the survey found.
Democrats’ future in 2016 hinges largely on performing better with white working-class voters and unmarried women, as the party looks toward the presidential election with Hillary Clinton as its front-runner, a new Democracy Corps poll shows.
The poll, a joint project of pollster Stan Greenberg and Page Gardner of Women’s Voices Women’s Vote, will be released Friday. It focuses on the direction of the Democratic Party moving forward after a brutal midterm cycle that cost it the Senate majority and a number of governorships. Story Continued Below
There are positive points for the Democrats, such as an improved voter mood nationally since the election. President Barack Obama is also viewed more positively, while congressional Republicans have not seen their brand improve, according to the survey.
The right track/wrong track numbers are also trending more positively for the outgoing president. “Obama’s stronger, and people are more optimistic about where the country’s going,” Greenberg said in an interview, noting that Obama is now at 48 percent approval.
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Blue collar Democrats are leaving the Party. Witness 2014.
Won’t be voting for either Romney, Bush, Christie, or any other liberal or moderate in either the Primaries or the General Election.
If the GOP wants my vote, they won’t nominate a pretend Republican. They’ll nominate a Ted Cruz conservative.
Not going to happen as long as Democrat Administration does this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3247598/posts
By the time November 2016 rolls around, Lizzie Warren will be the “middle class crusader” fighting for the rights of the “little guy” against Wall $treet and big banks.
Throw in a black VP to stimulate the entitlement army voters and student loan relief Groupons for the millennials and you have a pretty tough combination to beat.
The mindless over the mindful.
2014 was an off year election with no high profile names to motivate them to vote. They’ll come back in 2016.
40 MILLION ILLEGAL INVADERS just waiting to get amnesty and vote forever for the leftwing socialists/communists.
Politico still pimping for Hillary. They’re about all she has left. All the other radical, “progressive” libs have already moved on to the ‘RATS’ 2016 nominee, Fauxchahontas Warren, aka Princess Free Stuff.
Make it a Hispanic VP candidate and I agree with you.
I’m a Ted Cruz guy, but right now, I’d have to say that Scott Walker is becoming a serious contender.
Yes if DeVal Patrick or Cory Booker are unavailable, there’s always Julian Castro.
Your scenario is very likely IMO. All the Dems need to do is to manufacture a boogieman who threatens their entitlements. That’s all that’s needed to ignite the crusade and motivate the legions of takers to vote.
The hard truth is that if women didn’t vote there would never be a Democrat elected. Never. We’re all collectively forced to deal with it.
Compared to electing a guy from Kenya named Hussein TWICE, this should be pretty easy for them I’d think.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following. We need to amend the Constitution to prohibit political party support for federal government offices. Let’s just elect representatives based on honest interpretations of the Constitution instead of on the basis of left and right, vote-winning political party perversions of the Constitution.
That is a sad fact.
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Same here.
Throw in another perfectly timed market implosion, and watch Lizzie’s stock soar.
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