Posted on 08/02/2017 3:36:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Democratic political activist committee (PAC) recently released the results of a new poll showing that white working-class voters prefer Republican policies by a wide margin.
The Super PAC connected to House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House Majority PAC – which was created to restore a Democratic majority in the United States House of Representatives via the 2018 midterm elections – was delivered a warning by the results its own poll, as Democratic House leadership must now rethink its ultra-Left policies concerning the economy.
Numbers don’t lie
In the House Majority “White Working Class Voters Snapshot,” pollsters divulged that the political ideologies of participating voters were 41 percent conservative, 32 percent moderate and just 19 percent liberal, with 37 percent identifying as Independents, 35 percent as Republicans and 29 percent as Democrats.
Despite the mainstream media’s portrayal of the typical blue-collar worker being anti-Trump and pro-Democrat, as well as pro-union, the results of the Super PAC poll indicates otherwise … similar to the election results last November.
“A majority approve of the job President Trump is doing,” the House Majority PAC poll divulged. “Trump’s standing is better than House Republicans’ – who will actually be on the ballot – with these voters. A majority also say the Trump presidency is either going as well as they expected or going better than they expected.”
In addition, the Democratic pollsters revealed that more for the people and less for the government is an economic ideal that white working-class voters embrace – believing that they know what to do with their money … better than the government does.
“Republicans have major advantages on middle class tax cuts – ensuring people are rewarded for hard work, and improving the economy and creating jobs,” the polling report continued. To the dismay of Democrats, 35 percent more white working class voters believe that the phrase “will help improve the economy and create jobs” describes Republicans in Congress – rather than Congressional Democrats.
This is not the only bad news for Democrats going into next year’s election.
“Democrats trail on the initial Congressional ballot among white working-class voters by 10 points, 43 percent to 33 percent,” Breitbart gleaned from the poll.
And the actual numbers show that America is not as anti-Trump and anti-Republican as the media has let on.
“A majority of white working-class voters approve of the job President Trump is doing by a 52 percent to 44 percent margin,” Breitbart’s Michael Patrick Leahy noted. “Sixty-six percent of white working-class GOP voters approve of the job House Republicans are doing – up from 44 percent last year.”
The Nomington Petts firm conducted the survey with 1,000 probable voters from targeted House districts – an endeavor commissioned by the House Majority PAC’s “White Working Class Voter Project.” All participants in the June 27–July 13 poll were aged 24 and older and did not have any higher education or hold a college degree.
The Democratic leadership received some more discouraging statistics from the researchers, which shows that they have been losing their foothold with blue-collar America for years.
“White voters without a college degree made up 34 percent of the electorate in 2016,” those conducting the survey informed. “Their share was stable since 2012 but our [Democrat] margin got 12 percent worse.”
Wanting pay, not payouts
Working hard for their money was of prime importance to white working-class voters – as opposed to receiving government handouts at taxpayers’ expense.
“In our April 2016 poll with these voters, nearly three-quarters (72 percent) said they preferred a factory job over an office job (28 percent),” the pollsters added. “A large majority (69 percent) said it was very important that their next Member of Congress ‘Will do more to ensure that people are rewarded for hard work.’”
As opposed to the mindset of many white-collar workers, blue-collar workers do not believe that holding a college degree is a prerequisite for successful living.
“A majority (57 percent) said a college degree would result in more debt and little likelihood of landing a good paying job, while 43 percent said a college degree was a necessary step to get ahead,” the report stated. “Eight-three percent said a college degree was no longer any guarantee of success in America, while 17 percent said people who have a college degree are able to get ahead.”
Here is the analysis Democratic leaders received from the pollsters, indicating that a major change in their game plan must take place – soon.
“We suffer from the lack of an identifiable positive agenda,” the polling group stressed. “Without it, voters will turn to Trump for progress. With it, we can make significant gains.”
Big holes were blown through the economic agenda that was presented by the Democratic Party at last year’s Democratic National Convention.
“Our economic deficit is devastating – voters don’t see special interests as the problem we need to fix,” the pollsters concluded. “Success means better jobs that pay well – not a new campaign finance system. Let’s not confuse the end and the means.”
Hillary deception and mistakes repeated
Back in May, the House Majority PAC misinformed the Democratic voter base regarding the House race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel, who were fighting in the Special Election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. It repeated the same mistake the mainstream media made when it fed the public misinformation about then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s large lead over her Republican rival for the presidency, Donald Trump.
House Majority PAC Executive Director Charlie Kelly indicated that the Democratic Party had the key race in the bag.
“GA-06 voters are embracing Jon Ossoff’s inclusive message focused on expanding the middle class and rejecting Karen’s Handel’s ‘me first’ politics,” Kelly stated in a press release issued by the House Majority PAC in May. “This survey demonstrates the momentum and energy surrounding Ossoff’s campaign is real, and it shows that, even among her own base, enthusiasm for career politician Karen Handel’s candidacy is clearly tepid and half-hearted at best. Handel is struggling because voters know all too well her history of putting personal ambition and politics ahead of the people she was supposed to represent.”
Needless to say, the Democratic favorite, Ossoff, ending up losing to his Republican rival by three points.
Looking ahead
Currently, the odds are stacked against the Democratic Party, which has some major ground to make up.
“Republicans enjoy a 240 to 194 majority (with one vacancy) over the Democrats in the House of Representatives in the current session of Congress,” Leahy announced. “To take back the majority, Democrats will need a net gain of 24 seats in the November 2018 mid-term elections to reach the magic number of 218.”
A major retooling in its campaigns for the upcoming year is needed by the Democrats if they are to have any kind of chance for success against their Republican rivals.
“With a message that is not reaching white working-class voters, an apparent inability at the top to refine that message, and lackluster fundraising, the House Democratic leadership has yet to hit upon a winning formula for 2018,” Leahy concluded.
To Democrats that means they aren’t being clear enough with there ‘hate America’ rhetoric.
What policies?
What are they upset about? Even in 2012 Obama blatantly written off the working class in favor of minorities and illegals and were convinced they will become a majority after 2016.
Hillary cobbled together the freaks and the deplorables(normals) coalesced around Donald Trump (normal).
Democrats will NEVER abandon their hate America first beliefs..they believe that white working class people need to get the hell out and be replaced with foreigners(Which is why they support open borders) that way get as many millions of people here as possible to vote Democrat and all they have to do is supply them with endless welfare benefits and health care all on our dime
Meanwhile, MSNBC's best encourage Dems to ignore those whiteys.
What did you expect? You declared war on them, you don’t like them or their kind. You called them every name in the book, including deplorables. Get a clue!
The white working class loves America and would die for her. An alien, unknown concept to the Democrats and leftists.
The clue....”Working”
Having said that...
... the political ideologies of participating voters were 41 percent conservative, 32 percent moderate and just 19 percent liberal...
By most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 33-45% were Patriots, 20% were Loyalists, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started.
Thus, we are NOT on the verge of collapse. In fact, I'd argue we are rather on the ascent. The scary thing for the Dems is that they have to lie to get people to vote for them, while all Trump et al need to do is be the magnetic selves that won them the election.
Pssst! Nancy, continue to take the Dems left, your plan is working. Obama did a marvelous job and you should continue on that path.
Another Well Duh moment!
I guess they expect white working people to support a party that publicly wrote them off years ago and has made no attempt to change that policy since.
Shades of Hillary’s “Deplorables” and Fareed Zakaria’s “non-cosmopolitan unsophisticates.”
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