Not Breaking: The Dem’s message doesn’t inspire.
Based on the polling, Secretary Clinton should crush Ted Cruz. But polls don’t vote, people do. And right now, the Cruz voters are fired up – and the Clinton voters aren’t. But that isn’t surprising. Democrats have spent 25 years honing a simple, yet wholly uninspiring message – “We are a little less crappy than them!”
IT IS A HORRIBLE MESSAGE THAT HAS FAILED, AND FAILED, AND FAILED. Yet, with that terrible track record, the Beltway geniuses who run the Democratic Party are about to run that play one more time.
the Democrats’ problem is social capital
Notwithstanding the fiasco that is the GOP presidential primary so far, Matthew Yglesias warns, “The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself. … The vast majority — 70 percent of state legislatures, more than 60 percent of governors, 55 percent of attorneys general and secretaries of state — are in Republicans hands. And, of course, Republicans control both chambers of Congress.”
A major factor is the turnout gap. That is worse for Democrats in local and off-year elections but will persist in 2016. Today, the pollsters Greenberg/Quinlan/Rosner report that “unmarried women, minorities, and particularly millennials are less interested in next year’s voting than seniors, conservatives, and white non-college men are.”
The number of states controlled by Republicans is a singularly stupid measure of which party matters most. Lost of rural states with few people in them vote Republican. If you look at the electoral map, its very red….we already know that. Let Kansas austerity itself into the ground. That’s their prerogative.
That said, nationally the party does need to do a better job at inspiring nad firing up supporters, especially in off year elections.
Never trust polls or pollsters, their as political as anything else. As for “fired up” even hatred dies at some point, even in rural areas with rapidly depleting populations. But I agree, Dems need a new and vibrant message and it sure as hell is not the “Republican Lite” crap they’ve been pushing for decades. That’s why Bernie is lighting up the crowds, he’s saying what Dems want to hear unlike the DINOS we always seem to get in Delaware.
The number of states controlled by Republicans is a singularly stupid measure of which party matters most.
No, it’s not. Control of state legislatures equals control of the laws and policies tens of millions of people live under, control of redistricting, control of judges in state courts …
Just look at what the last 16 years of GOP control of the government in Delaware has given us in terms of education, clean water, good roads …
If you were to eliminate the republicans, I would surely vote against the democrats at every opportunity
On the contrary, Santorum just said, during the JV debate, “I give the Democrats credit. They fight for what they believe.”
Yes, Tom Carper and John Carney routinely fight to keep America safe for Delaware’s corporations.