Posted on 06/02/2022 5:23:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The campaign website of Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto does not mention the word "inflation." Voters will not find it on her Twitter feed, or in any of her ads as she faces a tough re-election battle for her U.S. Senate seat in Nevada, a contest that could determine which party controls Congress.
In an election year when opinion polls show inflation as the top concern for voters, Cortez Masto is gambling that tiptoeing around the subject, while playing up her role in delivering COVID relief to Nevadans, will allow her to survive a brutal political environment.
Analysts say her playbook, which also involves attacking her likely Republican opponent over his support for curbing abortion rights, is probably the best hope a Democratic candidate has of surviving at a time when U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has low approval ratings and inflation is at a 40-year high.
“If you ask her a question about inflation, she will want to talk about anything else, and especially about the abortion issue, because like many Democrats she sees that as a winning issue while inflation is an impossible issue," said Jon Ralston, a veteran Nevada political commentator.
Whether such a strategy can succeed is an open question. In a dozen interviews with voters in Las Vegas, 11 said they usually voted for Democrats. Yet only one said they were definitely going to cast their ballot for Cortez Masto this November. Most were undecided, dismayed by high inflation and blaming Democrats for not doing enough to lower prices.
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Promise handouts and stopping inflation. People vote appearance and promises, not reality.
What kind of idiot thinks abortion is a winning issue? The same Democrat who makes up her own reality where inflation doesn’t exist. Pundits are predicting a blowout where the libtards get clobbered into the REAL reality. Here’s hoping they can’t cheat their way out of it.
They did that!
Yeah. Hey people!I’m for killing kids! Nice one.
Nevada has a lot of working class Hispanics who have moved to Vegas to work in the tourism/gambling industries. I don’t think abortion is quite the winning issue it might be California. Meanwhile inflation is something those folks feel every day. Hammer her on inflation and never stop hammering her on that issue.
Just ask what the price of gasoline and groceries is today in Nevada. This FORCES the Democrat Socialists to confront the issue, and whether they own it or not, that one factor has to be leaving some pretty vicious toothmarks in their collective gluteus maximus.
Remember Jimmy Carter facing 1980? If you don’t, look it up.
I do. But times have changed. Government is bigger and less honest by far, now, than it was then. The press likewise.
Ask about anything, the answer is nearly always not responsive to the question, and more than half the time the answer is dishonest.
I agree that it's an uphill fight for the DEMs, generically. My point was that being non-responsive works, especially when both sides are doing it. Point fingers both ways, the audience (mostly ignorant) will go with other factors, looks and appearance being a big one, as well as confirmation bias - once a DEM, always a DEM.
>Government is bigger and less honest by far
Understatement.
>once a DEM, always a DEM.
Not necessarily true. As a youth, I was a dem. Then I figured out that they were trying to disarm us and switched. That was back in the 90’s.
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