Posted on 08/07/2021 5:47:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It looks as if Democrats just now realized there’s an election next year. After months of repeated appeals from pollsters, consultants, and former officials, Congressional Democrats finally appear to be hearing the warnings that their party and their message is not resonating with voters. But with the party still firmly in the grip of radical progressive politicians and donors, Democrats may have already sealed their fate for 2022.
According to a new poll commissioned by the party’s own campaign arm, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats are trailing Republicans by 6 points on a generic ballot among likely voters in swing districts. Those results, particularly on the economy, which 55% of respondents said they did not trust Democrats to handle, have rightly alarmed Congressional Democrats. One Democratic member was quoted as saying that the numbers looked “pretty dismal,” while Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said bluntly “we’re not breaking through.”
But for many Democrats who bill themselves as moderates, the results of the poll are hardly surprising. In fact, they confirm what a number of longtime Democratic commentators have been saying for months about the perils of the ever-increasing leftward tilt of the Democratic Party.
Liberal pollster Stan Greenberg, for example, warned in May that data showed “Democrats are at risk of repeating 2020 if they do not prioritize defusing and neutralizing” Republican messaging on issues like crime, immigration, and the culture war. Greenberg also noted that GOP voters remained largely unified behind President Trump and that “Republicans are following the political theater much more closely than are Democrats.”
Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher and a frequent outspoken critic of Republicans and President Trump, didn’t mince words when characterizing Democrats’ image issues following the 2020 election: “Democrats are the party of every hypersensitive social justice warrior woke bullshit story in the news.” Maher also hit Democrats for being weak on crime, saying that people voted for Trump “because your side [Democrats] thinks silence is violence and looting is not.”
Even David Shor, a self-described socialist and whiz kid pollster on the left, recognized the unsustainability of Democrats’ progressive messaging, saying that their “current electoral coalition is not consistent with wielding legislative power.” As AMAC Newsline reported earlier this year, Shor also warned that if Democrats don’t radically transform democracy with anti-democratic initiatives like H.R. 1, they “will almost certainly lose control of the federal government and not be in a position to pass laws again potentially for a decade.”
A rare moment of self-reflection also took place within the Democratic House caucus last November, with Majority Whip Jim Clyburn warning that Democrats are “not going to win” if they run on socialist policies again. Freshman Democrat Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania further urged his party to moderate, saying that policies like defunding the police “aren’t just unpopular, they’re completely unrealistic.”
Even before their disastrous House campaign in 2020, some voices within the party expressed concern about growing Democrat radicalism in a number of policy areas. During the 2020 Democratic primary, liberal journalist Albert Hunt advised Democrat primary voters to “KO Sanders” in order to “avoid November catastrophe.” Among other issues, Hunt cited Sanders’ proposals to “end private health insurance, impose big taxes, [and] ban all fracking,” as well as “his empathy for some left-wing dictators [and] changing positions on gun control and immigration” as a sure bet to sink Democrats’ chances in the general election.
Democratic primary voters apparently agreed with Hunt’s analysis, handing the nomination to Joe Biden instead. But, incredibly, soon after defeating Sanders precisely because he was a progressive, Biden released a “Biden-Sanders Progressive Unity Platform,” a clear sign of just how radical his administration would, and has, become – and how far supposedly “moderate” candidates like Biden feel they need to go to appease progressives.
Oh, noes! Back to drug dealing and pimping.
This shows, more than anything else, that the Media control of the narrative has been so ham-handed it is not working.
The Democrat party is radical. It has been for sometime. This is not news. The news should be, are the elections legal. Are the the ballet counters legal. Are the voters legal citizens? Polls mean nothing if votes are cast illegally.
Delta lambda epsilon will again enable the fraud so evil retains power.
Delta lambda epsilon will again enable the fraud so evil retains power.
“...Polls Show Them Tanking...”
SOME people need a house to fall on them
What difference does polling make if nothing is done about Dominion or cheat-by-mail-in ballots?
Not true, Debbie, you're breaking through, just not in the manner you intended. You can thank Heels Up Harris and The Squad for that.
Not true, Debbie, you're breaking through, just not in the manner you intended. You can thank Heels Up Harris and The Squad for that.
A virus to rally public sentiment around the central government.
A virus to politicize and ensue chaos.
A virus we will become numb to at some point very soon.
A new crisis will be manufactured. A war to rally around a floundering Biden administration ruled by progressives.
Apologies for the double post.
I hate ‘em, everybody hates ‘em because every breath they take is full of hate and venom. So we just hate ‘em back.
As I understand it, the news is that the polls indicate disapproval on a grand scale.
The poll results are indicative of the insurmountable margin that cannot be overcome by fraud.
They all know it. Fraud will be useless.
So many bits will be needed for election theft that like pennies there will be a national shortage of ones and zeroes on election day. They need to be held in reserve for when needed to offset the real vote.
Exactly right Outpost.
Turn a lemon into lemonade. It wouldn’t surprise me if the kkkraps actually use these focus efforts into areas they are behind by making sure their fraud machine is implemented and effective in said areas.
What do they care?
They've got voter fraud, the media and the courts on their side.
With that, they can't lose...
But we sure will.
The poll results are indicative of the insurmountable margin that cannot be overcome by fraud.
An insurmountable margin was overcome last November.
Neither Republicans or Democrats are listening.
There is a way the Democrats will retain power oh, and it does not involve fraud.
If the GOPe runs candidates who do not define conservatism as build the wall, drain the swamp, and America First in all things, and obstructions are arranged to prevent MAGA nominees, then the matter will become personal. It will not be political. It will become personal against the individual who is nominated over the MAGA nominee.
If the GOP establishment does this then Trump voters will vote Democrat. It will be personal. That establishment nominee will personally have to be stopped.
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