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Why Biden’s base is in distress
Politico ^ | April 5th, 2022 | RYAN LIZZA and EUGENE DANIELS

Posted on 04/05/2022 8:11:55 AM PDT by shadowlands1960

Democrats are desperately trying to understand what’s roiling the electorate heading into a brutal midterm environment.

HIT Strategies has been conducting weekly focus groups to find out in real time how Americans are processing events in 2022. On Monday night we watched discussions with two different subgroups of partisan Democrats assembled by the firm: “Black Base, Always vote for Dems, Ages 25+” and “Youth Base; Always vote for Dems, Ages 25 – 39.”

There were significant differences within and between the two groups of nine voters. But there were some broad takeaways:

— A preoccupation with inflation and crime. — Exhaustion with pandemic restrictions. — Cynicism about politics. — Deep frustration that President JOE BIDEN and Democrats have failed to deliver on their early promises. — Sympathy for Ukraine mixed with a lack of enthusiasm for Biden spending too much time and money on the issue. — Ambiguity about how important Jan. 6 should be for Democrats in the midterms.

These sentiments are captured in recent polling: Biden’s decline in approval from Black voters and millennials has been well documented, as of course has the rise in importance of inflation, crime and pandemic fatigue.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: brainlessjoebiden; corrupticrats; crime; demagogicparty; eugenedaniels; inflation; politico; pollutico; presidentharris; ryanlizza; ukraine
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I knew I felt an overwhelming disturbance in the force, and now hearing that 7 or 8 people are writhing in despair explains it.


21 posted on 04/05/2022 8:35:48 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: shadowlands1960

The only people I know who voted for this asshoe are old white lefties and dumb View watchers. That is his base.


22 posted on 04/05/2022 8:38:01 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dsrtsage

18 people; nine blacks and nine youngsters...


23 posted on 04/05/2022 8:38:50 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960
“....18 people; nine blacks and nine youngsters...”

That kind of describes his “true believing “ base in a nutshell.

24 posted on 04/05/2022 8:40:49 AM PDT by Reily
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To: shadowlands1960

Frankly, Biden’s polices have ALL been wrong and have hurt our nation. That’s tough politically.


25 posted on 04/05/2022 8:41:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Reily

I’m guessing ‘women’ were not a focus group because they no longer exist...


26 posted on 04/05/2022 8:43:14 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

It’s cute how they don’t get it…

And advantageous.


27 posted on 04/05/2022 8:44:26 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: shadowlands1960

seriously? politico bases an article on 18 voters?


28 posted on 04/05/2022 8:45:28 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: brownsfan

The Dems will be punished in 2022.


Right after the causes of the stolen 2020 election are rectified ...


29 posted on 04/05/2022 8:48:09 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: catnipman

FOX does similar all the time with Frank Luntz...

Focus groups are snapshots, they should be taken with a grain of salt, but they can pinpoint trends...


30 posted on 04/05/2022 8:48:14 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

“Democrats are desperately trying to understand what’s roiling the electorate heading into a brutal midterm environment. “

seriously? then the Dems are WAY, WAY, WAY stupider, more clueless, and more ignorant than any of us thought IF that statement isn’t simply bullshite ...


31 posted on 04/05/2022 8:53:05 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: eyeamok
And they wonder why they live in poverty, High Crime and unprecedented illiteracy?

But of course! It's Whitey's fault!

32 posted on 04/05/2022 8:54:02 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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To: brownsfan

another glitch: it would appear that the electorate is actually believing their lying eyes when they look at what groceries, heating, gasoline and rent are costing compared to a few months ago when trump was still president ... the dems biggest mistake was to destroy the country so quickly that even the short-attention-span voters noticed the difference ...


33 posted on 04/05/2022 8:55:39 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman
seriously? then the Dems are WAY, WAY, WAY stupider, more clueless, and more ignorant than any of us thought IF that statement isn’t simply bullshite ...

It's not. When you are swimming in arrogance, any suggestion that you may be doing something wrong is


34 posted on 04/05/2022 8:55:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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To: PIF

“Right after the causes of the stolen 2020 election are rectified ...”

That won’t happen. The GOP isn’t interested. The Dems are currently positioning for another round of mail in cheating.

I have a very low opinion of the American public. I noticed something in 2020 that should hold true in 2022. The public doesn’t care about explanations, they don’t care about factors, they just care about what’s affecting them. In 2020, I heard lots of local call in shows where people were quite upset over covid and were blaming Trump for not stopping it, (as if that were even possible). It was then that I knew the election was in doubt. It made it possible to steal the election.

The public is still stupid. The motivating factor is the cost of gas and groceries. There will be some steals, but it’s just too big to steal enough to hold the House. The Senate? Not sure about that one.


35 posted on 04/05/2022 8:58:00 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: catnipman

“the dems biggest mistake was to destroy the country so quickly that even the short-attention-span voters noticed the difference ...”

Agreed.


36 posted on 04/05/2022 8:59:02 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: shadowlands1960
What base?

Biden showed up in Arizona in October 2020 and this was the result:

The reporter was flabbergasted that NO ONE showed up for his "rally". The empty street behind her was supposed to be filled with screaming supporters.

I was there that week. And a few days later, Trump showed up: rallies in Prescott and Tucson were SRO, the traffic jam at Sky Harbor due to people gawking at AF1 was huge, and you would have thought God hisself had appeared.

Biden doesn't have a base out side of DC, a few propaganda organizations, university faculty/administrator staffs, and of course, Hollyweird.

PS - we are told that Biden "won" Maricopa County. Little points like this make that concept ever so dicey.

37 posted on 04/05/2022 8:59:54 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: shadowlands1960

Good point!


38 posted on 04/05/2022 9:00:25 AM PDT by Reily
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To: shadowlands1960
Why Biden’s base is in distress

Why Biden’s base is always in distress over something... which way the wind blows, if the sun will come up, will my socks match? All Liberal daily concerns which lead to their distress...

39 posted on 04/05/2022 9:02:42 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: shadowlands1960

One of the things I noticed in this article, none of the supposed “base” Democrats mentioned Climate Change as one of their core issues. Yet, that’s what the progressives in DC are still obsessed with.


40 posted on 04/05/2022 9:04:52 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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