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Democrats go searching for a message ahead of 2016
Yahoo! News ^ | December 17, 2014 | Jon Ward

Posted on 12/18/2014 12:53:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Insiders agree the party has lost focus on ‘bread and butter’ economic issues.

Elizabeth Warren may have captured the imagination of the Democratic Party’s base, but many in her party worry that it does not have a message that can reach beyond its most loyal supporters.

In recent weeks, Democratic operatives have begun to voice concerns that the 2014 midterms made plain the limits of an approach that failed to reach beyond minority groups or those who are reflexively liberal. And yet what should come next is not yet totally clear.

“You have to answer the mail about what people’s concerns are,” said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, the preeminent liberal think tank and advocacy group. Democrats, she said, need to emphasize “an economic focus on 'bread and butter' issues that matter to people’s lives.”

For CAP, that will mean releasing a series of new policy ideas in 2015 to address “the middle-class squeeze,” as the group calls the cross-pressures created by rising living costs and years of stagnant or falling wages.

For Warren, the first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, that means talking about fighting for the middle class — and then standing up for her beliefs even if it means leading a rebellion against her Senate colleagues. Her pointed comments on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, arguing that Citigroup and other big banks should be broken up into smaller pieces, galvanized and excited the progressive left wing of her party. But even as the calls for her to run for president are growing louder, she remains known more for what she is against than what she is for.

Being oppositional is something that unites the populist right and the left because of a now commonly held set of concurrent attitudes....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016; democrats; elizabethwarren; fauxcahontas
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1 posted on 12/18/2014 12:53:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about, “Soylent Green is the Middle Class. Yum!”


2 posted on 12/18/2014 12:55:36 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How about this?

It woulda worked if we'd been allowed to do more if it!!


3 posted on 12/18/2014 12:56:17 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrat message would be...

We are Democrats, at least unlike Republicans we have a spine take a stand for something!

Of course they stand up for Dictators and Communists, but they won’t advertise that.


4 posted on 12/18/2014 12:56:35 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We already know what it will be (same as every year):
“Destroy more wealth to support the welfare state!”

Of course the media won’t use such straightforward words.


5 posted on 12/18/2014 12:57:57 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Their message has devolved into that of Epicurean lawlessness.


6 posted on 12/18/2014 12:58:42 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe 2nd they could remind us they kill osama again but didn't kill off the real problem of obama?
7 posted on 12/18/2014 12:58:51 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

DNC slogan:” Obama half destroyed the middle class. Vote Elizabeth Warren................let’s get it over with!”


8 posted on 12/18/2014 12:59:01 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Please give us another chance!”

“It could be worse.”


9 posted on 12/18/2014 12:59:04 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes rights)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about: “Everything we say to you is a lie”


10 posted on 12/18/2014 12:59:24 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What happened to the "War on Women"? Hillary being 'ready'?

No?
Maybe "RESET" - remember that one, that was Hillary's stroke of sheer genius how she invented the reset button for Russia. That worked out really well, that was her big success as Secretary of State and major accomplishment.


11 posted on 12/18/2014 12:59:28 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I really wish they’d get some sort of truth serum...

or something like “Liar, Liar” happened to them,

where they’d actually say out loud what their true agenda is.


12 posted on 12/18/2014 12:59:48 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By the time the journ-0-lists are done with Warren, she’ll be a proud Native American grandmother fighting for the middle class against Wall $treet and the banks. Throw in a black VP to bring out the entitlement army vote, and you have a combination capable of winning.


13 posted on 12/18/2014 1:00:10 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about: “What difference does it make?”


14 posted on 12/18/2014 1:00:14 PM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"America...let's finish her off!"
15 posted on 12/18/2014 1:01:10 PM PST by twister881
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If they're 'searching'.....no need to.... here's one....

DROP DEAD!


16 posted on 12/18/2014 1:03:58 PM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: nascarnation

Fauxcahontas - or Hillary, for that matter - would put one of the Castro brothers (Texas variety) on the ticket. Mexican vote is much more valuable than the black vote.


17 posted on 12/18/2014 1:05:38 PM PST by twister881
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To: twister881

Could be.
I’m just saying don’t take her lightly.
Remember how everybody LMAO’d when the Mob chose SlowJoe?


18 posted on 12/18/2014 1:08:13 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats go searching for a message ahead of 2016

Near as I can tell the only message the GOP has right now is "Oh my God! We've got to stop Ted Cruz!"

19 posted on 12/18/2014 1:09:15 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What, it’s my turn isn’t working for Hillary?


20 posted on 12/18/2014 1:11:09 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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