- Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:00 am
#94001
Democrats have attacked the president every which way, but their own polling and focus groups show none of it's working.
[quote]Data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a difficult picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election. It suggests that Democrats are naive if they believe Trump’s historically low approval numbers mean a landslide is coming. The party is defending 10 Senate seats in states that Trump won and needs to flip 24 House seats to take control of that chamber.
[“If that’s the attitude that’s driving the Democratic Party, we’re going to drive right into the ocean,” said Anson Kaye, a strategist at media firm GMMB who worked on the Obama and Clinton campaigns and is in conversations with potential clients for next year.
Worse news, they worry: Many of the ideas party leaders have latched onto in an attempt to appeal to their lost voters — free college tuition, raising the minimum wage to $15, even Medicare for all — test poorly among voters. The people in these polls and focus groups tend to see those proposals as empty promises, at best. Many voters describe themselves as “exhausted” by the constant chaos surrounding Trump, much of which is openly dramatized and repeated over and over to the point even Trump haters no longer feels there's any substance to Trump bashing. /quote]
Teflon Don dudes.
[quote]Data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a difficult picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election. It suggests that Democrats are naive if they believe Trump’s historically low approval numbers mean a landslide is coming. The party is defending 10 Senate seats in states that Trump won and needs to flip 24 House seats to take control of that chamber.
[“If that’s the attitude that’s driving the Democratic Party, we’re going to drive right into the ocean,” said Anson Kaye, a strategist at media firm GMMB who worked on the Obama and Clinton campaigns and is in conversations with potential clients for next year.
Worse news, they worry: Many of the ideas party leaders have latched onto in an attempt to appeal to their lost voters — free college tuition, raising the minimum wage to $15, even Medicare for all — test poorly among voters. The people in these polls and focus groups tend to see those proposals as empty promises, at best. Many voters describe themselves as “exhausted” by the constant chaos surrounding Trump, much of which is openly dramatized and repeated over and over to the point even Trump haters no longer feels there's any substance to Trump bashing. /quote]
Teflon Don dudes.
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