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Dem Internal Poll: Ocasio-Cortez Becoming The Party’s “Definitional Face” In The Heartland
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| 07/15/2019
| Ed Morrissey
Posted on 07/15/2019 9:11:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why did Nancy Pelosi reverse her earlier approach to her noisy first-term progressives and start taking them to the public woodshed? An internal poll conducted in May by Democrats might explain why Pelosi decided to start cracking down on the frosh “Squad.” Axios got its hands on the survey, which showed that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had succeeded in making herself the “definitional face” of Democrats among swing voters.
And that’s not a good thing for most other Democrats. When it comes to “white, non-college voters” that Democrats wooed away from Donald Trump in the midterms, AOC is box-office poison:
- Ocasio-Cortez was recognized by 74% of voters in the poll; 22% had a favorable view.
- Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota another member of The Squad was recognized by 53% of the voters; 9% (not a typo) had a favorable view.
It’s not just Ocasio-Cortez personally. The socialism that she espouses turns out to be “toxic,” as Democrats discovered:
- Capitalism was 56% favorable; 32% unfavorable.
- “Socialism is toxic to these voters,” said the top Democrat.
Yikes. Socialism is toxic in any waters — just look at Venezuela to see how it inevitably ends up — but Pelosi and other Democratic leaders had to have blanched at that result. Not only is Ocasio-Cortez busy selling socialism as the new agenda for the Democratic Party, so are most of their presidential candidates. Joe Biden’s the only one lightly jogging just to the right of Karl Marx, and only just. Biden’s taking flack for trying to add more socialism into ObamaCare rather than abandoning it for single-payer.
We’ll have more on that later, but this extremist impulse explains why Pelosi decided to go on the offensive against Ocasio-Cortez and her squad now, although the necessity has existed since the first days of 2019. Until that poll, Pelosi could shrug off AOC and her “Squad” as nothing more than a media creation and believe Pelosi herself was the face of the Democratic Party. Pelosi’s not a terribly popular figure either, but she knows how to stay on brand and on message to keep a competitive posture. Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Socialists threaten to destroy that brand and turn the Democrats back into a fringe urban party and lock them out of power for a generation.
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To: SeekAndFind
Look at that 9% approval number for that Omar dingbat from Minnesota. This poll is surely what precipitated Trumps Twitter rant yesterday.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:13:40 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
To: SeekAndFind
It’s what she set out to do.
She is achieving it.
Not a good thing for the Dems in the big picture,
but you have to admire how she went about it.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:14:34 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: Alberta's Child
To be honest, President Trump should just sit back and watch them implode.
He did not need to tweet anything
To: SeekAndFind
[ Ocasio-Cortez was recognized by 74% of voters in the poll;
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota another member of The Squad was recognized by 53% of the voters; ]
Meanwhile, I am ....
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:18:25 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SeekAndFind
AOC is the de facto Speaker of the House, whether Pelosi likes it or not. The hard socialist left of the democrat party has all the indicators pointing its way as that party’s future.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:18:31 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
To: SeekAndFind
Definitional face?
More like festering sore on the Dem Party buttocks.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:18:40 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: SeekAndFind
i’ve said this all along with occasiona-kotex; short term aggravation with the crap that comes from her mouth but long term gain for our side in the political world...
they- cortez/tlaib/ilhan, are real time campaign ads for President Donald Trump...
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:19:30 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: SeekAndFind
The Dems may very well be hosed at this point. If they crack down and take away the chicken tendies, the autistic wing of the Dem party will REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Time to pop up some popcorn and crack a beer. LOL
To: SeekAndFind
It isn’t Capitalism versus Socialism, it’s Freedom versus Socialism.
To: Trump.Deplorable
He did not need to tweet anything If we only had a nickle for every time someone said or felt that way.
But he's President Donald J. Trump and he does it his way which has worked well for the most part so far. Still, as Lindsay Graham said on FNC early this morning; it wouldn'tt hurt for the Prez to "aim a bit higher". As POTUS it's best if he lets others get personal while he stays on point talking about policy and issues like the immigration policy failure. Disagree with the 4 twit gang of freshtwits but do it on issues; not them personally. Let people like me talk about how much I'd like to see them all do a swan dive into the Grand Canyon.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:23:50 AM PDT
by
Boomer
To: Trump.Deplorable
Could be he is using democrat hate for him to keep the #squad relevant and in the news.
To: Trump.Deplorable
Could be he is using democrat hate for him to keep the #squad relevant and in the news.
To: N. Theknow
Definitional face? More like festering sore on the Dem Party buttocks.
This and that's putting it nicely.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:24:50 AM PDT
by
Boomer
To: SeekAndFind
Loose cannons on the deck!
To: SaveFerris
To: SeekAndFind
I might have liked that President Trump did not say those things in a tweet, but
IF HE DOES NOT SAY THEM...WHO WILL
Nobody is saying forcefully what the President said. There wasn’t even much of a mealy=mouthed response.
So, what are we supposed to do. Be afraid to speak our frustration...or...like previous presidents and republican politicians...just answer with another pandering, entitlement...yeah, that will do it. That will make Omar satisfied.
To: SeekAndFind
And now the SJW left is insisting on defending the “squad” against Trump attacks, telling them to return to their own countries.
Damn, the man’s a genius.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:27:44 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: SeekAndFind
Isn't AOC giving the White Power sign???
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:29:04 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: SeekAndFind
Whomever set her up (totally unknown bartender, age 29) did an incredible job. During her first term in the House her name is on top.
Julian Castro,Gillibrand,Michael Bennet,Klobuchar,Seth Mouton and dozens more had to try to raise millions and push as hard as they could to get interviewed in magazines and on small radio and TV stations to somehow get their name out. Name recognition is the number one obstacle in politics. AOC is already suddenly there (but too young for age 35, thank God.)
Somehow, AOC is known by 74%. Remember, a national survey of people under 30 shows over 40% could not properly place in sequence whether the American Civil War or WWII came first or second.
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posted on
07/15/2019 9:32:04 AM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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