Opinion:A novel way for Democrats to fight the culture wars in the 2022 elections
Opinion: A novel way for Democrats to fight the culture wars in the 2022 elections
The Plum Line
By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/07/biden-democrats-midterm-elections-critical-race-theory/
Today at 4:41 p.m. EST
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As they face the possibility of a midterm election calamity, Democrats are engaged in a debate about whether to focus their message on “kitchen-table issues” to win independent voters, or to make a strong attack on Republican culture-war demagoguery, which could energize their own voters to turn out.
But why not do both? That’s what some Democrats are suggesting. In a new strategy memo, the progressive donor and strategy group Way to Win tries to craft a message that Democrats can use to accomplish both goals.
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Two key conclusions help explain this. First, voters are largely unaware of the Biden administration’s successes, such as the surprisingly robust economic recovery and the well-executed vaccine rollout.
Second, voters tend not to blame Republicans for trying to hold back the recovery by opposing federal economic rescue efforts and sabotaging measures to fight the pandemic, or for dividing the country with fraught culture-war appeals.
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