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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Even Better Deal? Dems Unveil New Midterm Slogan After First One Tanked
By Kate Riga | July 19, 2018 10:07 am
House Democrats have tossed their original midterm slogan, A Better Deal, in favor of For The People, hoping to elicit more inspiration and less mockery, according to a Wednesday Politico report.
Democrats are trying to fine tune their economic-based message to ward off lingering doubts from the 2016 election that the party lacks focus and clear policy positions. Per Politico, Democrats intend to invoke the phrase in relation to health care and drug costs, higher wages from infrastructure and public works jobs and pillorying the Republican swamp in D.C.
Those issue areas offer Democrats a double-pronged opportunity to make President Donald Trump and his party look bad, and to offer hopeful, future-based solutions.
The quiet rollout of the new slogana contrast to the well-publicized introduction of A Better Deal, which earned little more than eye-rollsis also an attempt to showcase authenticity and a genuine attempt to reach out to workers and middle class voters who felt abandoned by the Democrats in 2016.
According to Politico, the new motto will also separate the Democrats from the Republicans who recently announced their midterm slogan: Better Off Now.
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An Even Better Deal? Dems Unveil New Midterm Slogan After First One Tanked (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2018
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OLDMDDEM
(1,572 posts)1. We hear you
I think the slogan should be We Hear You. It implies that the Dems have grown up and are working for the people.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. For the people
is the slogan of personal injury lawyers. Morgan and Morgan.
ck4829
(35,059 posts)3. Descending into armageddon and we're still arguing on the paint job?
Oh my God...
(I'm chuckling right now, I'd be laughing and actually enjoying this if this was a work of fiction, but it's not)
andym
(5,443 posts)4. We have your back
would be a better version of this slogan.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)5. It should be
Vote American, no puppets allowed.
manor321
(3,344 posts)6. Nothing "tanked"
The press ignores Democrats.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)7. The Human Fund: Money for People
George Costanza is now consulting for the DNC, apparently.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)8. "Welcome to the Resistance"
That's my slogan. In honor of the Uber Driver.