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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs elections near, Dems launch ads on Social Security, Medicare
These ads will be very effective
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/elections-dems-launch-ads-social-security-medicare-rcna54114?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
But as a report from Roll Call made clear, the party is doing more than just talk about these social-insurance programs in assorted speeches.
In the closing weeks of an election increasingly dominated by economic issues, the Senate Democrats top super PAC is focusing on Social Security in new ad buys worth at least $1 million each aimed at Republicans in Arizona and North Carolina. In the Arizona cut, the narrator asks what nominee Blake Masters plan is while were struggling just to stay afloat.
The commercial is unsubtle, and it makes use of the Republican candidates own rhetoric, including recent remarks in which he suggested privatizing Social Security.
The Senate Majority PAC, which has close ties to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, also began airing a related spot in North Carolinas U.S. Senate race, targeting Republican Rep. Ted Budd.
whathehell
(29,095 posts)It should make a big difference!
yankee87
(2,181 posts)Before Roe was overturned, people would not believe this would happen, but now it can.
whathehell
(29,095 posts)Social Security used to be known as "The Third Rail -- touch it and you die" and I think that still holds, thankfully.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)Cha
(297,715 posts)Cha
(297,715 posts)Abolishinist
(1,314 posts)election strategy by the Dems in charge.
For example, Social Security benefits will increase by 8.7% next year. For the average person on SS, typically a large voter turn-out group, this will be around $140 MORE PER MONTH! IMO this should have been out there right when it was first announced several weeks ago to counteract the other side's 'inflation' meme, i.e. we ARE doing something about this worldwide inflation problem!
Who cares that it's formulaic and would have happened regardless of the party in charge, it's the messaging that counts.
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)to end Medicare and Social Security is a bad thing.Hmmm
bottomofthehill
(8,348 posts)Calling attention to the 150 a month extra calls the same attention to the dramatic rise in the cost of living expenses.
This is the message. They said they will take your choice, they did, they say they will take your social security, if elected, they will.
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,619 posts)President Biden is glad to move the debate to social security and Medicare.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/social-security-medicare-biden-accepts-gops-gift-rcna53877?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Look, folks, Democrats are going to protect Social Security and Medicare, Biden declared. Republicans have been very clear: Theyve stated boldly that they want to cut Social Security and Medicare to the point that theyll shut down the government, they say, and send the nation into default, which raises prices for everyone, if we do not cut Social Security and Medicare. I aint gonna do it.
Looking over the transcript, the president used the phrase Social Security and Medicare literally 11 times during his appearance at the DNC.
Bidens comments coincided with a Semafor report on Democrats newfound focus on the popular social insurance programs.
With just over two weeks to go until Election Day, Democrats are pivoting to a new economic message: That Republicans will crash the economy next year in order to gut Social Security and Medicare, a pair of politically popular safety-net programs. From President Biden to Speaker Pelosi to individual candidates in race after race, Democrats are pushing for a renewed focus on entitlements, a traditional strength for the party.
The article characterized this as an election-season gamble recent polling suggests Social Security and Medicare are not among the issues voters are focusing on most adding that the new Democratic messaging might also be a sign that the partys emphasis on abortion may not be enough to carry candidates across the finish line on its own......
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise has also embraced a partisan plan for significant changes to Social Security and Medicare, while Republican incumbents such as Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Republican candidates such as New Hampshires Don Bolduc have endorsed related, regressive plans. Lets also not forget about Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a member of the Senate GOP leadership, who published a blueprint that would put Social Security and Medicare in even greater jeopardy.
Are Democrats recognizing that their current pitch is insufficient, or are they simply exploiting an unexpected opportunity?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,348 posts)It ties Choice, Social Security, Medicare throw in a little improving economy and wow, there is a message to spend some money on in the last 10 days.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)Republicans want control, in order to rob from the poor and feed their rich donors. They will use any message to keep their base outraged and hoodwinked.
msongs
(67,453 posts)in charge of govt
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)About damn time is right.
These ads should have started running at least a month ago, EVERYWHERE. The Republicans continually hand Democrats fodder for attack ads and Dems continually blink and do nothing.
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)Should have been out there sounding the alarm on Social Security and Medicare.
Oh well, back to my
DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)it will be the 1% with the entire wealth of the nation, and the 99% will become serfs and peasants. Period
YES, it is that dramatic folks. Instead of a Democracy, it will quickly become a Corporate Fascist Tyranny
Rebl2
(13,562 posts)to see this, but wish they had done it a bit sooner. Need to make another ad that points out that all republicans want to do this.
doc03
(35,382 posts)Republicans want to cut SS and Medicare. It will make little or no difference.
bottomofthehill
(8,348 posts)doc03
(35,382 posts)though a corrupt SCOTUS.
markodochartaigh
(1,154 posts)saying it, but lately the Republicans have been saying it out loud. Hopefully hearing it from the Republican candidates' mouths will wake up enough "independent" and Republican voters to make a difference.
doc03
(35,382 posts)reliable supporters. I don't see how it helps them unless they figure votes won't count in the future.
markodochartaigh
(1,154 posts)Having worked with victims of abuse, I have frequently been in awe of this most remarkable of human super powers. The ability to believe the unbelievable, even in the face of the incontrovertible evidence is astonishing. And the inevitable stress caused is usually released in the direction of the innocent. Authoritarians are great at making their followers "believe absurdities" in order to make them "commit injustices".
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)The Republicans have been hammering away for months on inflation, why didn't we hammer away about SSI, Medicare and Obamacare?
W_HAMILTON
(7,873 posts)If you were unaware of their efforts, that's on you -- not them.
From May: https://democrats.org/news/new-dnc-ads-highlight-gop-putting-seniors-medicare-and-social-security-at-risk/
From August: https://democrats.org/news/icymi-new-dnc-ads-blast-gop-plans-to-cut-seniors-benefits-following-social-security-anniversary/
From earlier this month: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/democrats-add-social-security-attacks-midterm-tv-ad-blitz-rcna52058
And so on.
usonian
(9,898 posts)Everything is driven by analytics these days.
We'll never know how strategies are formulated.
Just be glad they found something with "legs".
Remember Cambridge Analytica?
Roy Rolling
(6,938 posts)Compare that with the GOP strategywe promise revenge if we win, and well bring down America if we need to.
After all, we already tried January 6th.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,754 posts)calimary
(81,507 posts)What took em so long???
Gaugamela
(2,496 posts)year round message!
IcyPeas
(21,910 posts)The Ted Budd ad mentions SS and Medicare
The Blake masters ad only mentions SS. And what is "cut the knot". If this is a term I'm not familiar with it.
Dems need to stop burying the lede in their 30 second ads.
XanaDUer2
(10,752 posts)Should mention Medicare
DemocraticPatriot
(4,414 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Should have been done weeks ago, but this is better now than not at all!
W_HAMILTON
(7,873 posts)From May: https://democrats.org/news/new-dnc-ads-highlight-gop-putting-seniors-medicare-and-social-security-at-risk/
From August: https://democrats.org/news/icymi-new-dnc-ads-blast-gop-plans-to-cut-seniors-benefits-following-social-security-anniversary/
From earlier this month: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/democrats-add-social-security-attacks-midterm-tv-ad-blitz-rcna52058
And so on.
lark
(23,158 posts)I have been screaming this from the rooftops - expose the right wing's plans to steal our Medicare and Social Security!!! It's a winner for us and a total loser for them - even my repug friend would not vote for a repug who stood for the partys plan. She hates Scott because of this (plus his illegal defrauding of medicare).
republianmushroom
(13,704 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)Americans have short memories. Bring an issue forward too soon, and it will lose its impact. It's called stratergy folks.