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In reply to the discussion: Tell me I'm wrong about the messages Virginia voters sent [View all]Mike 03
(16,616 posts)13. I listened to fourteen hours of coverage and Joy Reid was the ONLY
person I heard raise this as a causative factor.
One of the political strategists said the quiet part out loud when he said, to paraphrase, "We always want the problem to be something simple so we can fix it, so we hope it's a messaging issue."
That really sums it up. They don't want the problem to be the ongoing effort to overthrow our form of government because that's really hard to solve. They also don't want it to be the 400+ voter suppression laws at the state level, because that's also really hard to solve.
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I think if we can get our "allies" to stop comparing Biden to a BOWL OF SHIT; and...
NurseJackie
Nov 2021
#4
THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 We blame our bad message on slogans from the poor and oppressed then run
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#21
We are so busy trying to not be like the Republicans we've crippled our avenues of response.
hadEnuf
Nov 2021
#47
That's apples to oranges. We're coming off of one of the worst presidencies in history,
hadEnuf
Nov 2021
#84
No, we can "go high" stoke emotions and tell the truth. We leave out the "stoke emotions" part for
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#66
Metaphorically speaking, if Youngkin sleeps with Trump on Monday, it will not go well with his
Beastly Boy
Nov 2021
#79
The exception would've been the dem winning in VA and he almost did closing the gap ...
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#24
We got voters out, the turnout numbers were record IINM. The issue is 15% swing in white women
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#34
So McA defined Youngkin early AND HARD as a Trumper? I didn't see that, how was Youngkin able
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#77
100% agree that VA rejected Trump again seeing Youngkin ran away from him like he stank
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#26
Most Texans don't want to get rid of abortion, Abbot did it because he doesn't have to pay a price
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#87
Yes there is messaging that can change that and dems need to implement it the way the GQP does
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#36
I posted it already, stoke emotions like the GQP does but with truth. We don't do that ...
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#40
100% agree that the GQP doesn't have to tell the truth to stoke but we can stoke AND tell the truth
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#43
I feel like you do but relating more to implementation than tactic, the tactic works ... look at
uponit7771
Nov 2021
#53
Biden has spent the year cleaning up the Trump mess, including the pandemic
bucolic_frolic
Nov 2021
#39
Maybe we need to face the fact that we are a greedy, vindictive and fascistic nation that
world wide wally
Nov 2021
#57