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.
And yet 17 brain-dead or evil Republicans are joining them to support the 2701 page nation-destroying “infrastructure bill”.
This should help to show Dems/media how much fraud will be needed. Get ready for more COVID, COVID, COVID, blah, blah, blah, Trump this , Trump that, Trump did blah, blah, blah.
Not to worry….election fraud will turn it around for them.
Which shows jut how pervasive and self destructive the RINO's and Swampers really are. Flush 'em all in 22.
That fat black chick arrogantly expounding about how her body is more important than her constituents’ bodies couldn’t have helped. Demanding defunding police for the little people, while buying her own contingent of private security, was very over the top.
The Republicans were asleep at the wheel last time or they were in on it.
What do these polls say about them stealing elections?
They adamantly deny their was any cheating in the last election. They will adamantly deny their will be any cheating in this election, in which they will win.
Irrelevant.
Poll is hopelessly skewed.
It only counts real, live, voters.
It puts MY radar on red alert.
I don't think they'll try to get away with another mass or school shooting, so imo ... they'll be opting for something international.
Something the public has yet to parse
The democrat party is thought to be radical. It is not radical it is revolutionary. The democrats intend to destroy the United States as is clearly shown by their actions. Do they have to put up signs and TV adds before Americans get it? Guess so.
It still has a significant impact. Imagine if they reported things even halfway honestly.
Maher is correct. And it does matter, but the Dems are not going to attempt to change the message, the radicals in charge are going to attempt to lock in so much "change" (the monster "infrastructure" bill is only the beginning) that it will be impossible for a Republican majority to undo, especially if that majority contains enough spineless "moderates" to keep it from happening.
Democrats no longer need to worry about voters, just votes.
INFLATION + CRIME > ELECTION THEFT
Plus the GOP will come to their rescue.
If they get the “infrastructure” bill and reconciliation through with Republican help, they won’t have to ever worry about elections again, and the Republicans voting for this KNOW it.
Too many here must reflexively vote for the R jersey, no matter how much of an Assistant Democrat they are.
They KNOW they are assisting the Democrats to destroy the country.
They have always been Assistant Democrats.
It’s our fault for continuing to re-elect them even after they showed us who they were.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has voted for amnesty and a permanent Democrats majority THREE times.
The Bush League Republicans are Assistant Democrats assisting them in the destruction of the country and people on our side insist we have to keep re-electing them.
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