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In reply to the discussion: Dear Moderates: The Left Isn't Why McAuliffe Lost Virginia [View all]Jon King
(1,910 posts)This all sounds great, of course people say they support those things. But that is NOT what they choose who to vote for on. Emotion, crime, borders, perception, messaging....that is what suburbanites will vote on.
Dems can pass these things and scramble home to campaign. It will not hurt but will not decide the swing areas at all. Neither will anything that comes out of the 1-6 investigations.
Its messaging, its perception that swings votes. Suburban parents in VA were angry at the world because their kids got hammered by Covid closures of schools. So they lashed out at those in power. Suburban parents heard a great message, bogus, but well played by Repugs, that the radical left was going to decide that their kids would learn that being white was a crime, that trans kids would be playing their daughters in sports.
The Repugs are hammering that Dems are soft on crime, spouting skewed stats. Repugs are hammering Dems that the borders are open. Repugs have taken over the education messaging with stories of trans kids raping, dominating sports, the CRT lie, etc.
These bills will not do a dang thing to stop the 2022 slaughter. Expert messaging and well run campaigns to take back the narrative might.