Polling Shows Running on Progressive Policies Would Work In Swing Districts - Polidicks

[ https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/democrats-progressive-policies-swing-districts/ ] It’s Become a cliché that each faction within each party believes that victory would be assured if only the party would follow their preferred policy approach. Democrats in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which has been becoming increasingly involved in primaries across the country in a way it hasn’t before, now has polling to back up its claim. The data, crunched by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, comes from a survey of 600 likely 2018 voters over the phone in 30 targeted swing districts, and an additional oversample of 300 Democratic-leaning surge voters. (Those are people who don’t have a history of voting and are less certain to vote in 2018.)

Don't worry. I'm quite confident in the Democratic party bring able to fuck up every time.

Brb, tweeting this survey to Peter Daou. https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/819182252512964610?lang=en

It's not that they'll fuck it up, they're just never going to move in a progressive direction because that fundamentally shakes up the Democratic party and will lead the ousting of the old guard still in power.

Honestly, I think an equally or maybe even more important point to make than the OP article does is the disconnect between state and congressional level elections and how the parties are perceived in them and perceive themselves because in this past few years it's gotten to be a BIG FUCKIN PROBLEM. State: I'll use my state Indiana as a reference. We have Republicans that run with pro-union platforms and don't have staunch anti-gay rhetoric blasting all the time and even support small business. Repubs that would be effectively Dems in other places. Because at the state level the people running are allowed to be flexible with their platforms and encouraged to be wary of the local wishes and actually modify their goals accordingly. Federal: Nope. Fuck you. We are caricatures of our party. We run hardline on the exact letter of the exact same issues at all times with no leeway, no flexibility, no accounting for the constituents we supposedly represent oftentimes. With Repubs this makes them comically evil bastards, with Dems this makes them indecisive and often undesirable and seemingly weak willed. I want the Dems to see their people winning these really hard elections in deep red territory and understand why that is. Because it's this. Change this.

It seems like it's almost frustratingly the opposite on the democrat side of the fence. I view national-scale Democrats are reasonable, if wayyy too complacent sometimes, whereas some state-level Democrats are just outright shitty and IMO give the party a terrible name. Like California Democrats and nutty policy, and Illinois democrats and their reputation for corruption.

The polling methodology is p. shit tbh, the questions, for example, are very leading. I'm not really putting much care to what a no-name pollster that's blatantly partisan says, especially since it contradicts sources like AP-GFK, and historical results in places like Vermont/Cali.

those questions are horrible and the first question (Ensure that prescription drugs developed with taxpayer dollars are affordable for every American.) betrays the fact that she doesn't even know what kind of work goes into getting a drug to market.

Just look at the Labour Party in the UK. It took big Jez ramming a brilliant election result down their throats to stop the militant blairites from throwing their toys out the pram, even then half of them resigned.

What exactly would you define as a "Progressive direction"? A leadership change is long overdue, but there' already movement around that direction.

its tiring that progressive policies even need a debate lmao

The right is blatantly, openly, anti-progress and I find that so unbelievable... These people know that progress always wins in the end, right? Have these people read about any history at all?

It's even more annoying when its from the "I want a government so small you could shove it inside your ass" group.

american politics is like this: average joe: wtf republicans fucked everything up, im voting democrat next time average joe: wtf democrats fucked everything up, im voting republican next time repeat ad infinitum

Well blamed on this country voting system to tell most psychologically weak people to vote these unlikable parties. And also please saying right in non-shitpost way. @BrucetheFunnyDog And what movement you referring too, that supposedly better?

what the??? i don't understand you, i think your language subroutines are corrupted

Poor feller cain't speak English none too good, I reckon.

Widespread dissatisfaction has led to democrats ranging from Lamb on one end to candidates all over the country stating that they will not vote nancy pelosi in for another term as speaker of the house. I'm sure you and other firebrand progressives will be dissatisfied with this, but I'm afraid building a coalition to retake congress with a harebrained one size fits all approach to candidates is rather unfeasible

Well shouldn't his manufacturer send an engineer out and repair him?

This is just being a cunt (Not directed at you zero point I just can't remove your quote from my post because newpunch doesn't work on mobile)

Excuse me? That's very rude of you but I'll be the bigger man and forgive you.