The Stan Greenberg Reserach Group is warning Democrats across the board that their efforts have ‘stalled’ in the last few months ….
The group warns that the party should be focusing on a better economic message and support for healthcare coverage …These two area’s are where the study group feels Democrats will be able to motivate more voters to come out and vote for their party people running in the fall midterm elections…
They do NOT belive the anti-Trump message is strong enough for Democrats to lead with, but that they should tie the above two things to being the result of Trump and the Republicans being in power and that voters need to come out and vote for their own good against these thingsenabled in Trump’s being in office …
Democrats sit at the edge of a landslide repudiation of President Trump and Republicans – in the Congress and states where they govern in November. Though their momentum has stalled in the last few months, Democrats have important opportunities with minorities, millennials, and un-married women, and, to some extent, white working class women, that will allow them to in-crease the number of competitive races and dominate in many battlegrounds in 2018. This is the first of three waves of a phone survey (conducted mostly on cell-phones) of registered voters and a coordinated on-going web-panel of 3,140 target voters in 12 states that include 12 Governor races, 10 Senate races, and congressional races – including18 in DCCC battleground districts. This suite of research provides clear guidance for progressives to get on the winning track.
Democratic victories in 2017 and 2018 were the result of differential turnout and strong perfor-mance across base and swing groups. Compared to 2016, there is a greater belief that the results of elections matter. But in the past few months, Democrats have appeared less focused on the economic and health care battles that most engage anti-Trump voters; at the same time, Republi-can base voters, especially white working class men, could finally point to a signature conserva-tive policy achievement in the new tax cut law, where before they were grasping for news to jus-tify their vote. This new research shows an evolved message as well as attacks on Trump and Re- publicans that allow Democrats to reclaim their footing. The advice is straightforward: take away the GOP’s presumed strengths – the state of the macro-economy and the new Republican tax cut – and make the most of their weaknesses on key issues that go to the heart of the case against Republican Trumpism……