Florida Democrats blame lack of unified message in election-day beat-down

Palm Beach Post ^ | 11/07/10 | George Bennett

[Libloather]

Florida Democrats blame lack of unified message in election-day beat-down
By George Bennett
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 8:38 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010

Telling voters they've lost their minds probably isn't an effective comeback strategy for Democrats.

But there was more venting than introspection when Palm Beach County Democratic leaders and activists gathered Thursday night to ponder the future of the party after Tuesday's Republican midterm election tsunami.

"One of the bad things about fear and anger is that they are emotions that cloud our judgment, and that is what happened across these United States," state Rep. Steven Perman, D-Boca Raton, told the county Democratic Executive Committee meeting.

"With the hammer of the Republican side, through their media outlets and all the half-truths and mistruths, they made the public so fearful and so angry that they lost their minds and they made bad decisions," Perman said.

Perman, newly elected without opposition to a heavily Democratic seat, backed away from his "lost their minds" assessment the next day, but stood by his fear-and-anger diagnosis.

It was one of many recalibrations Florida and national Democrats undoubtedly will be making in coming weeks and months as they try to dig out from under Tuesday's landslide.

[uncbob]

Day after the election, once again liberal democrats were saying that American voters are “stupid” and “voted against their financial interests”.

Well the maajority were in 2008

[KC_Conspirator]

They so dont get it. It was their actions and pi$4 poor results they produced that made them lose so bad.

[Tublecane]

Ah, yes, “message.” Isn’t it sad that no one even bothers to pretend anymore that politics is comprised of anything other than advertising?

[DarthVader]

Throw in Casey for PA

[Frantzie]

Maine appears to have been very red this election cycle. Htach will go. Lugar should go. Ensign is a choir boy compared to Reid.

[FrankR]

Boy, those dems are hung up on "the message", aren't they?

I really don't see how their "message" failed...I mean, TV, Radio, Internet, cell phones, robocalls, snail mail, email, door-to-door, ACORN canvassing, obama going to all 57 states delivering boring speeches....I mean, just HOW did their "message" fail?

So they say it was the "lack of a unified message". In other words, someone didn't get the propaganda talking points sheet.

Seriously, the common knowledge on the street is that deomocrats lie...no matter how many openings you give them to 'fess up, they had rather lie.

We all know their game, er, their message, and Americans just don't like it much. Well, some do, but snakes usually like snakes...sometimes.

I think I did get a couple of their "messages" in the mail, but as soon as I saw it was a "D", into trash it went.

When your "brand" has been tarnished, you can do one of two things...fire the ones responsible to show you're trying to turn it around, or, go out of business.

I think the dems should just go out of business...I'll never believe anything they say...never did for that matter.

[SC_Pete]

They needed bigger bumper stickers.

[jrcats]

I agree. I’ve been wanting to get rid of Bill Nelson for some time now. I’ll be doing the happy dance when he’s kicked out.

[DarthVader]

His vote for Obozocare may be his death sentence.

[DPMD]

Just one of the many disadvantages of the infinitely big tent of the party of all things to all people.

Too many varying single-issue groups.

Live by groupthink, die by groupthink.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

“I don’t see any scenario in which FL goes Dem in 2012.”

Ditto re Ohio