I had an impromptu lunch today with a member of Party Leadership...

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36. One problem that I see is Democratic candidates

use language and fancy words that fly over people's head. Also, our candidates are interested in giving their spiels and don't ask followup questions when a voter makes a statement or ask a question, the followup question must reflect what the voter was focused on, with the candidate supplying a clear answer.

Trump set himself up as the Everyman. He campaigned in small cities and towns and eat at KFC and greasy spoons. He is a complete fake, but he made people feel that he understood their problems. Our candidates must be willing to go into places where they are not welcome to have a two way conversation with voters, they need to visit regularly to every corner of the state or district that they seek to represent. Republicans made a big deal of Obama meeting Joe the Plumber during the 2008 race and Joe the Plumber coming out as a republican, but the act of Obama reaching out won him the votes of more working class men than JtP being a jackass cost. I remember a blue collar politicians talking about him and his dad watching a JFK visit, he said his working class dad was grubby in dirty work clothes, but he felt JFK was his man and JFK seemed to make sure that he made eye contact with such people. In my family when I grew up, my parents had a picture of Jesus Christ and one of JFK prominently displayed, eventhough both were dead.