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Feehery: The problem with the Dem wave theory
thehill ^ | 04/23/2018 | John Feehery

Posted on 04/26/2018 5:17:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Money, message and ultimately the map, in equal measures.

That’s what wins political campaigns.

You can’t win modern campaign without money. It’s necessary to pay professional campaign staff, to mobilize voters, to run advertisements, to get your message out. But money by itself is not enough. Just ask President Phil Gramm or President Jeb Bush.

You need to have the right message to fit the right time.

You can have great qualifications and a huge Rolodex, but if you can’t articulate simply and effectively what you want to do once you gain the political office you seek, you won’t win.

But for the message and the money to have an impact, you must have voters that are willing to hear what you are saying. That’s what makes the political map so very important, especially in congressional races.

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1 posted on 04/26/2018 5:17:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But money by itself is not enough. Just ask President Phil Gramm or President Jeb Bush.


Or president Hillary.

Hillary is a walking advertisement for why we don’t need campaign finance reform.


2 posted on 04/26/2018 5:22:05 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If they had been smart in the spring of 2017, they would have formed up...gotten a joint message, and pushed forward for a new party without Hillary or Obama. Instead, they’ve wasted 15 months now. I don’t see their funding pot filling by November, and they still don’t realize the need for one comprehensive message from the party.


3 posted on 04/26/2018 5:22:44 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only Dem wave you are gonna see is them waving as they fade into the distance as they say goodbye.


4 posted on 04/26/2018 5:24:19 AM PDT by MrDaddyLongLegs (fOR)
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To: pepsionice

I honestly think a huge part of their problem is that now that the MSM has so little power, and everything is so well vetted and fact checked (relative to the past), that not enough people buy any real solutions they bring to the table. Their only draw is “vote for us because we hate trump too.”

That’s not enough to win.


5 posted on 04/26/2018 5:30:57 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Article does not take into account the absolute irrational Trump Hatred by the dem voter

That alone will get them to the polls in November
Money organization will not be needed
6 posted on 04/26/2018 5:38:13 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: uncbob

I think history is on the dems side.


7 posted on 04/26/2018 5:41:24 AM PDT by BRL
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To: uncbob

Blue districts will get high turnout motivated blue voters. Red districts will get high turnout motivated red voters.

Senate GOP +9
House GOP + 5/10

Insanity to follow.


8 posted on 04/26/2018 5:41:45 AM PDT by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First, funding.

0bama funneled BILLIONS in government law case settlements to leftist activist organizations, like the Southern Poverty Law Center. That money will find its way back to the democrat party as needed.

Second, advertising.

The democrat party enjoys 24/7 free advertising from the legacy press. No real need for them to buy a lot more.


9 posted on 04/26/2018 5:41:59 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The biggest problem with the Dems, is they’ve become a collection for the most narrow special interest groups, instead of a political party. It’s all about Blacks, LGBTQLMNOP, SJW’s and radical feminists. They forgot who put and kept them in power in congress for 40 plus years, the White working class. The GOP-E isn’t much better, but at least they aren’t overtly anti American. The Dems can cobble together enough of these folks to win here and there, but there is no Blue Wave, add to that, if Trump can get the Rust Belt reliably voting GOP, the Dems are done as a National Party, unless they manage to turn Texas Blue.


10 posted on 04/26/2018 5:43:57 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: uncbob

A lotta Dems voted for Trump. The party is terrified those Dems will keep doing it.


11 posted on 04/26/2018 5:52:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: pepsionice

“they still don’t realize the need for one comprehensive message from the party.”

I think they realize the need for a single message, but given their constituents what would that message be? Blacks want it to be about blacks. Same for the alphabet people. Speaking of the alphabet people, each letter is a totally different constituency and even they don’t play well together. Then there are the vile ticks who hang onto the party for the blood the party lets them suck out of the rest of us; a message that resonates with them will turn off just about everybody else. Politics used to be about finding a message that attracts 51% of the voters. Now it’s about dividing the vote such that you have 51% of what’s left over. But continuing to promise the same stuff time after time and then not delivering it is finally costing the Democrats their coalition.

When the Democratic constituency was all the (horribly oppressed, of course) white and black workers the message was easy and they delivered on it time after time. But those same voters are now all evil to the new constituents; you know, the constituents who can’t stand each other and have nothing in common...those constituents.


12 posted on 04/26/2018 5:55:38 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ChicagoConservative27
You can’t win modern campaign without money. It’s necessary to pay professional campaign staff, to mobilize voters, to run advertisements, to get your message out. But money by itself is not enough.

The democrats have something that republicans don't, and what the democrats have is worth billions during a presidential campaign. It's called the left-wing media, which is about 80% of TV and radio and newspapers, etc. The left-wing media is already bought, and liberal causes and liberal candidates get the "free messaging" that comes from their automatic bias of that left-wing media.

Republicans, unfortunately, have to out-raise the democrats in order to even be competitive in campaigns. Fortunately, the underlying messages for republicans have resonated with the people, while democrats don't really have a good enough message to go along with their massive control of the media. But, the media is the messenger, and republicans had better keep the right messages overcoming the automatic bias from the left-wing media.
13 posted on 04/26/2018 6:04:48 AM PDT by adorno
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pulling off a wave would require the Dems to replicate the Rahm Emmanuel strategy of ‘06. Find a bunch of Conor Lambs and run them in red and purple districts.

Fortunately their whackjob base is not going to let them do that. Tom Steyer will be flooding the airwaves with ads, ripping Tom Perez and Keith Ellison to shreds if they try.


14 posted on 04/26/2018 6:09:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only way there could be a Democrat “wave” is if the Republicans allow it (and I wouldn’t put that theory away, either).

There is more than enough crazy, melt-down, behavior on tape now to swing the election away from Democrats for a generation.

The question is, do the Republicans have the balls to use it...

...and do they want to?


15 posted on 04/26/2018 6:15:18 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: robroys woman

No need to quake in fear, but Republicans do have problems with complacency and funding disparity. They need to get into permanent campaign mode. No more business as usual.


16 posted on 04/26/2018 6:17:31 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They took losing the “white vote” or “White Middle Class vote” too lightly. Who could belong to a party that filed that idiotic lawsuit the DNC did last week? For me, if I were a faithful lifelong Dem, that would have been the last straw.


17 posted on 04/26/2018 6:24:55 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No Wall, no Congress.


18 posted on 04/26/2018 6:31:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Pulling off a wave would require the Dems to replicate the Rahm Emmanuel strategy of ‘06. Find a bunch of Conor Lambs and run them in red and purple districts.

Fortunately their whackjob base is not going to let them do that. Tom Steyer will be flooding the airwaves with ads, ripping Tom Perez and Keith Ellison to shreds if they try.



Voters didn't even nominate Conor Lamb, he was just chosen

That won't happen again, voters will be picking the most radical leftists lol

19 posted on 04/26/2018 6:43:25 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: Westbrook

Except not many people listening anymore.


20 posted on 04/26/2018 6:49:35 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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