In order to convince my fellow Dems I continue to seek a telling sports analogy for the approach (wanting to win without conceding on any policy positions regardless of their appeal). Your team hasn't played great with their risky high variance deep passing offense but you garner a slight lead at halftime as a result of opponent ineptness. Yet you play the 2nd half the same way because you want your star receiver to be happy rather than a more conservative ground game to burn the clock and amplify your likelihood of winning. Open to better suggestions.
Lots of useful data from More in Common. But how does it shatter the delusion that there were a lot of 2020 Biden voters who stayed home in 2024? Has anyone crunched the numbers comparing reluctant Trump voters to couch-sitters?
So, how do we get to the Dem strategists who think our platform should be: tax the rich; and we don't take corporate PAC money. Many rich people are generous, caring Democrats. Why classify them as evil? Why create a them vs. us environment? Why villify corporations and people who work in them?' If we don't work for a non-profit or governmental agency, don't we all mostly work for corporations? The strategies we democrats employ so often unnecessarily push people away with divisive generalizations. Do you really get more votes from saying you don't take PAC money than you would get from the money some PAC might use to support you? Have you market-research-tested that negative message to see if it works? I'm a life-long Democrat who has worked for several well-known corporations. None of them were evil. So many Democratic candidates' messaging turns me off and makes me wonder if the ads or websites were really written by closet Republicans. We are constantly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I’m on the other team but I’m an American first, this is extremely well written and pretty accurate. I believe in free market competition and that it makes everyone better. When one side continues to spiral to unacceptably we all suffer.
Yep it’s driving me nuts that some of my fellow Dems think we should drive further left because Trump voters are completely ungettable.
In order to convince my fellow Dems I continue to seek a telling sports analogy for the approach (wanting to win without conceding on any policy positions regardless of their appeal). Your team hasn't played great with their risky high variance deep passing offense but you garner a slight lead at halftime as a result of opponent ineptness. Yet you play the 2nd half the same way because you want your star receiver to be happy rather than a more conservative ground game to burn the clock and amplify your likelihood of winning. Open to better suggestions.
Lots of useful data from More in Common. But how does it shatter the delusion that there were a lot of 2020 Biden voters who stayed home in 2024? Has anyone crunched the numbers comparing reluctant Trump voters to couch-sitters?
So, how do we get to the Dem strategists who think our platform should be: tax the rich; and we don't take corporate PAC money. Many rich people are generous, caring Democrats. Why classify them as evil? Why create a them vs. us environment? Why villify corporations and people who work in them?' If we don't work for a non-profit or governmental agency, don't we all mostly work for corporations? The strategies we democrats employ so often unnecessarily push people away with divisive generalizations. Do you really get more votes from saying you don't take PAC money than you would get from the money some PAC might use to support you? Have you market-research-tested that negative message to see if it works? I'm a life-long Democrat who has worked for several well-known corporations. None of them were evil. So many Democratic candidates' messaging turns me off and makes me wonder if the ads or websites were really written by closet Republicans. We are constantly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
what is the crisis?
I’m on the other team but I’m an American first, this is extremely well written and pretty accurate. I believe in free market competition and that it makes everyone better. When one side continues to spiral to unacceptably we all suffer.
14% of the Reluctant Right voted for Biden in 2020. Those are the ones I'd consider flippable (especially if they also voted for Obama in 2012.
Appreciate the post-- thanks
In the spirit of being helpful, will flat the typo that Mary Pelota is referenced as "Mark" Pelota at the top of the relevant section.