Republicans: Hey Americans, the biggest problems in America are inflation, immigration, and crime Polls: Voters say the biggest problems in America are inflation, immigration, and crime Democrats: We must talk about inflation, immigration, and crime! And nothing else! - ThreadSky

whstancil.bsky.social • 18 days ago

Republicans: Hey Americans, the biggest problems in America are inflation, immigration, and crime

Polls: Voters say the biggest problems in America are inflation, immigration, and crime

Democrats: We must talk about inflation, immigration, and crime! And nothing else!

Reposted from Oliver Willis

Just absolutely clueless www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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klausbusse.de•17 days ago

Fact is, that Democrats were talking about a lot of other things, but overall the MSM and the X takeover crippled a lot of their messaging.

Plus, most people in the West are generally unsatisfied, and changed their government no matter what.

The interesting question is how to change the narrative.

ryangeddie.bsky.social•18 days ago

Tangential but the idea that politicians are supposed to do nothing ever other than follow the will of the polls is such a joke theory of representation.
Might as well just have direct democracy at that point.
Be a real leader or get out of office.

leifpeterson.bsky.social•18 days ago

Bingo

viraldonutz.bsky.social•18 days ago

Talk about ceding the narrative

madness45and47.bsky.social•17 days ago

New York City goes five days without any shooting victims for first time in 30 years.

New York averaged more than two shootings a day last year, but between 19 and 23 January 2025 police did not record any incidents.

meow142.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is a little tricky to replicate for Dems. A large swath of Dem voters hate liars and extremists but those two things are what Republicans use to get attention to a pet project and win the narrative.

leifpeterson.bsky.social•18 days ago

It shouldn’t be that difficult. dems are being fed a silver platter with issues to raise alarm bells about

meow142.bsky.social•18 days ago

Think about it like this. Republicans accuse Dems of supporting Epstein but Dems get in a moral quandary when there's some evidence trump actually participated in Epstein Island. There are reasons for this but at the end of the day rs are more flexible and quick. It's not straight forward.

leifpeterson.bsky.social•18 days ago

I hear ya but I don’t think it’s that nuanced. Republicans are better at controlling the narrative because they don’t hesitate due to moral quandaries. It’s all about going on the offensive and “shaping” the discussion. Meanwhile, dems are on their heels waiting for what issues are polling better.

meow142.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yea. I wonder how many focus groups Schumer thinks trump used to take over the republican party then country they need to be quicker. I also think the debate is too myopic. They need to start experimenting no matter what because they need some of these smaller states.

meow142.bsky.social•18 days ago

They're trying somewhat. They go in the Sunday shows they tweet but they can't compete with immigrants eating dogs and cats because their narrative is constrained by reality. They need to experiment more.

meow142.bsky.social•18 days ago

AOC has been by far the best democrat message but it's still not enough because she can't get large media attention either. Dems need to start experimenting.

oneoneder.bsky.social•17 days ago

Also, media will just whip the Republican narratives and attempt to punish Dems for raising salience of other issues

pudgepudge.bsky.social•17 days ago

Fucking talk about wealth inequality and the billionaire class who are screwing us while pushing class division crap through the weak tea MSM. Bernie and AOC should runt he DNC. These morons

pudgepudge.bsky.social•17 days ago

god where is autocorrect *run the DNC

ealluia.bsky.social•17 days ago

The current GOP is a target rich environment. But since polling is downstream of what media is talking about what what partisan leaders are talking about, if you cede most of that ground to the GOP, then the public will say in polls whatever they're talking about is what they're concerned about.

mybookstand.bsky.social•17 days ago

https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-policy-changes-3a38abf95aad30bdb046b1690e06d123?user_email=176fdfd0e0c91d2fd47ecb2d5349160041d96380d170afed29bc43f3e8a3dda1&utm_medium=Morning_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=Morning%20Wire%202-17%20Special%20Template&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers

yiff.com•18 days ago

jeffries usually isn't firing on all cylinders. personally I think the man needs high dose prescription amphetamines STAT. but since those will be illegal soon you might very well be stuck with him all the way to 2028, by which time he might successfully get to a point

justinenlawson.bsky.social•18 days ago

They’re not reading the room. Idiots.

puffpufffixer.bsky.social•17 days ago

We progressives understand the biggest threats to our existence are Trump, and his cult of entitled white men.

juniemo2.bsky.social•18 days ago

I'm far more concerned with what's going on in DC, the WH, DOGE, etc.

invalidham.bsky.social•17 days ago

"Oh wow, attempting to just be Diet Republicans isn't working and we're all out of ideas!"

bdowney.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is like in UX when you have A/B tested the shit out of shades of the color blue, but the real answer is to think outside the control panel you have.

ronniesunshine.bsky.social•17 days ago

Why would you expect any different? We still have the same dumbass leaders that lost to a orange felon.

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