deactherunner
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Fighting the fake polls now. Seems besides the point if you are Trump-or pretty much anyone not connected to Nate Silver.
This just in from the world of pms. Rj takes posts very literally.
This defeated Trump is fantastic. He's going out with a wi/mi/pa.
This press conference was the lowest point in US politics in my lifetime.
I’d be heavily conflicted as a news organization to give him that platform.
I’d be heavily conflicted as a news organization to give him that platform.
Well said.Many people have a hard time processing long, detailed, nuanced policy positions. Unless the 25 page policy position paper can have its main theme expounded in an 8 second sound bite, Many people won't pick it up. Or they will write it off as "ivory tower" stuff. If the Democrats don't write their own sound bites, the republicans will do it for them. And not in a good way.
100% correct. Republicans are great at the sport of politics. They are all about symbols and messages that work, even though there is very little policy behind it. Democrats allow republicans to label everything as socialist or let a small section of the left wing lead with defund the police messages.
Even if some of those are your actual policy goals you have to be astute enough to realize it’s terrible messaging. Democrats do have policy positions that poll very well in broad terms, but they suck at messaging, allow Fox News and the talk radio echo chamber to overwhelm and scare people and spend too much time infighting about purity and winning twitter popularity contests.
Look at what Pete Buttigedge was able to do with all of those Fox appearances. That type of messaging is needed.