POLITICO often operates as the scolding wing of the pro-abortion maximus Democrat party. As the party searches for a way out of the electoral wilderness, we learn from Elena Schneider that Democrats have invested heavily in navel-gazing to come up with such galactically obvious conclusions as
Working-class voters think Dems are ‘woke’ and ‘weak,’ new research finds
From Schneider’s lead, we learn
The nine-month, 21-state research project is the latest in a wave of post-mortems and data dives aimed at solving the Democratic Party’s electoral challenges after their sweeping losses in 2024. It was funded by Democracy Matters, a nonprofit aligned with flagship Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, and backed by months of polling, dozens of focus groups and message testing.
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To jump ahead, there is this preliminary reminder which mixes gloom and doom with hope: “The extensive research project shows the challenges and openings for the party in winning back working-class voters.”
The American Bridge project focused exclusively on “a once-core constituency for Democrats that’s drifted away from the party over the last decade”: the working-class voter. “And the initial feedback is grim,” Schneider writes. “Working-class voters don’t see Democrats as strong or patriotic, while Republicans represent safety and strength for them.”
Her next sentence is key: “These voters ‘can’t name what Democrats stand for, other than being against [Donald] Trump,’ according to the report.”
Much of the response that Schneider found among Democrats largely in tune with the findings is that the Democrats’ problem was “messaging,” a built-in excuse to avoid the bad news that the real reason for the 2024 thumping was their policy proposals.
Unfortunately, in a party that is uniformly pro-abortion on the national level—and almost exclusively so on the state level as well—it goes without saying that including any pro-lifer is an absolute nonstarter. (Whenever anyone evenly obliquely suggests that Democrats might open the flap of their party’s tent even a tiny bit, they are angrily rebuked.)
What to do? Policy proposal? Nah. The objective is to persuade working class voters that President Trump is anathema. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s comment to CNN yesterday would fill that bill: “He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth.”
But the party is fractured along many lines. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) “drew enormous crowds when they barnstormed the country this spring on their ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour, attacking billionaires and ‘the 1 percent.’”
Which prompted this from Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Democracy Matters:
“Not one person in all of our focus groups mentioned the word ‘oligarchy.’”
Two areas of particular weakness, according to the report, were “transgender rights and immigration.” However, the party was no closer to agreeing how to address these issues now than it was 12 months ago.
Schneider’s story included writing about “a detailed media consumption study.” It dripped with scorn,
“finding that working-class voters are ‘consuming less news and using YouTube and playing video games more than the overall electorate.’ They rely on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook for news, and they’re more likely to use TikTok specifically for news than the overall electorate.”
But note what the very next sentence says:
They also are constantly tuned into audio throughout the day, be it radio, streaming or podcasts.
Hmmm.
“It’s almost a slur [ya think?] to call them low-info voters,” said Ryan Berni, a Democratic consultant who advised on the project. “We heard time and again in the groups that these are not low-info voters and they’re not traditional news readers, but they’re getting inundated with information.”
Berni adds, “They’re getting a lot, but not from Democrat-aligned sources.” [emphasis added]
Oh, you mean not from the Legacy Media which is in the hip pocket of the abortion-obsessed Democrats?
For a report that focuses on ‘messaging,’ that is bad, bad news.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
