It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”
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G Elliott Morris
Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.
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With that said, we need more data on whether or not people's lack of support for Trump's immigration policies is translating to the lack of support for him personally
There's no small amount of charisma needed to shift opinion your way, and most of the Dem caucus has the presentation appeal of a wet, dirty mop.
https://bsky.app/profile/cuchulu.bsky.social/post/3lp5dgbqupc2l
No U pophat!
But here we are.
If someone is in the U.S. on humanitarian parole, until their asylum claim is determined… they are in fact documented. Though temporarily
Undocumented refers to someone who is in the US with no legal status to be in the US.
Way to poop the party, Ken.
Think of your lowest information voter, and go way, way lower than that.
You might- MIGHT - be confronted by a news channel in a doctors office or restaurant that you don't seek out. Otherwise? If I didn't actively keep myself informed I could miss most news these days
Many dems are still scared of their own shadow.
And yet, it keeps being injected into more portions of our lives.
Pick an issue: trans rights, reparations, late-term abortions, DEI
Dems have taken solid reasonable positions on all only to be burned to the ground by embracing the strawman the GOP stood up instead of rejecting them
Sure, we'd win if we did that, but at what cost to our purity?