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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are finally getting the messaging right
Despite naysayers predicting we democrats would be blamed for the shutdown, the opposite is happening.
Apparently our party has finally realized that effective messaging means sticking to a simple talking point or issue.
In this instance, hammering out the fact we are trying to save ACA subsidies so that people don't end up dead for lack of insurance.
For years this was the strength of the republicans. They would come up with a single issue, encapsulate it in a slogan like " make american great again " and repeat it as nauseum not caring whether it was a lie or not.
That's how you get voters to support you, not by giving lengthy discourses on complex policy issues. The average voter does not follow closely so it has to be kept simple.
Once you are elected, you hash out the policies by enacting them into laws.

agingdem
(8,665 posts)not buying into Trump's for-the-good-of-the-country bullshit..refusing to play nice and save Mike Johnson's ass..about damn time...but the one message that has finally permeated the MAGA ether is this.."Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House..they own this train wreck"..
Queso Delicioso
(121 posts)We're getting the -messaging- right. Meanwhile they're shooting at us. May I suggest a re-examination of priorities? Or shall we run that through a focus group first?