What Democrats Should Learn from their Loss in Florida -Charles P. Pierce

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17. I think his point was that Dem Candidates need to go with a more

Populist campaign and point out who will benefit from ACA rather than just say "we will fix what's broken" which is a downer/negative making it seem as though the ACA is flawed and putting it right in the RW's pocket that there's something wrong with ACA to begin with.

This is a problem with FRAMING issues that's been pointed out over and over to our Party Campaign Ops...yet they don't listen. They tend to think that if they give the Repugs some points ...(like that there were glitches in ACA rollout) that this will gain them swing voters. It doesn't work.

Maybe she was a flawed candidate but we've seen too many Repugs elected who were practically criminals but they have a message that appeals to their voters and gets them out...even if they lie to do it they SOUND strong and principled (ha!) But, too many of our Democratic Candidates running in strong Repug Districts come off sounding weak when they should be trying to convince voters that they can be depended upon to be different from the Repugs on basic bread and butter issues they care about and will fight for those issues rather than pandering to Repugs.