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Democrats own research shows that some battleground voters think the party is preachy, judgmental and focused on culture wars, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
And the party's House campaign arm had a stark warning for Democrats: Unless they more forcefully confront the GOPs alarmingly potent culture war attacks, from critical race theory to defunding the police, they risk losing significant ground to Republicans in the midterms.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is recommending a new strategy to endangered members and their teams, hoping to blunt the kinds of GOP attacks that nearly erased their majority last election and remain a huge risk ahead of November. In presentations over the past two weeks, party officials and operatives used polling and focus group findings to argue Democrats cant simply ignore the attacks, particularly when they're playing at a disadvantage. A generic ballot of swing districts from late January showed Democrats trailing Republicans by 4 points, according to the polling.
It wasn't all bleak, though: The data showed that Democrats could mostly regain the ground lost to Republicans if they offered a strong rebuttal to the political hits. When faced with a defund the police attack, for instance, the presenters encouraged Democrats to reiterate their support for police. And on immigration, they said Democrats should deny support for open borders or amnesty, and talk about their efforts to keep the border safe.
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andym
(5,444 posts)and very difficult to fight off. The GOP has been using them for a long time. Lee Atwater was a master. Dukakis lost to George Bush over things like "Willie Horton," a furloughed prisoner who went on a crime spree in Massachusetts, not supporting a flag protection amendment and being a "card-carrying member of the ACLU."
Mad_Machine76
(24,414 posts)but not "erased". Plus we won the Senate.
Cha
(297,289 posts)sHIT.
It's Between Fascism and DEMOCRACY.
Tony_FLADEM
(3,023 posts)the Democrats should mention transparency on that issue. Ask the GOP to show them the textbooks that are teaching the content they object to. Also, state that it should be put on the Internet for all to see and make a judgment.
On defunding the police, just mention how the Democrats voted to give billions to the states to among other things fund the police.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Bettie
(16,110 posts)Radical, out of touch, lying...tell it like it is, don't soft pedal, just tell the truth about who and what they are.