This poll shows Dem +3 on the generic ballot, and shows voters don't associate Trump's unpopular policies with the GOP. Big opportunity for Dems there. Or they can make the problem worse by listening to centrists, finding agreement with Trump/GOP, and blurring any distinction between the parties.
Dems are under fire from the GOP voters as well as Dem voters. I don't know, but that could explain why they are lower in popularity than the GOP.
Except their numbers among registered dems are God awful.
By opinion yes, but not when it comes to whom to vote for. Dem voters are pissed at Dem leaders for not being able to stop or at least slow Trump, but in no way ready to vote GOP.
Let me be clear that I'd crawl through glass to vote these nazis out, but that's not everyone. Dems need to give people a reason to go vote - if they don't show their willingness to fight authoritarianism, they're not going to get as many voters as we need to survive this as a country.
I get trying to expand your base but I would recommend at first shoring up your own base. The Dems in 2024 felt they could attract enough swing voters to offset the far left h they turned off
the uk labour party is showing exactly what people don’t want after winning a landslide. the signs are always ignored and dismissed as fringe.
Lieberman is dead. Let’s try Single Payer healthcare again.
Both parties embarrassingly unpopular, voters interpret choices before then as bad or worse, younger Americans don’t see any reflection of themselves or their priorities in our government, and so democracy becomes less and less a thing that people are concerned with losing.
we have a lotta wood to chop and 2 years to do it I think we can
They're so infuriating right now.
More dribble from Ruperts' rag, who also promoted an election stolen and whitewashed the GOP racism.
That chart makes my head hurt
This is the Fox News effect. Decades of lies that have embedded into the small brains of the GOP base.
I agree. I am seeing so many weird polls right now and many of them putting JD Vance in the lead. 🙄I just can’t with this entire fake media shitzabang.
They’re trying to elevate someone with no personality.
If Dems are more unpopular than the GOP but are up in the generic ballot, does the WSJ poll show that the Democratic Party is unpopular with the base? But the base will still vote for them over Republicans?
I don’t think they asked that question so this poll is inaccurate.
It shows that people want to vote for Democrats but also people don’t like Democrats. It also shows that the Dem base is far smaller than the Republican base and that non-partisans hate both parties.
Americans think Democrats are too far to the left by a 60-28 margin.
Moderate Democrats outperform more left leaning Democratic candidates in elections.
They can elevate the most energizing, visionary candidates or blandest, least exciting ones…
Too much of the Democrats are too out-of-touch, still following a Reagan line of thought, believing this myth that centrism is the biggest vote-winner, and listening to pretty dreadful consultants. Ah well... primary them? bsky.app/profile/call...
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I’m honestly not sure it is leftist vs liberal that matters, I think Dems want someone who will fight against Trumpism first and foremost. The Dem party is great at producing lukewarm politicians that don’t get people mad and fighting.
The Dem party consists of so many different people, beliefs, wants and needs. BIG umbrella, people are going to feel like they don’t fit under it or that the party isn’t fighting “for them”.
I will not vote Republican but the Democrats sure aren’t giving me anything to be excited about or get behind
What this graph tells me is that the time is ripe for a third party. I just hope it’s a sane and nuanced one. That means not one started by a billionaire (looking at you Mr. Ketamine).
That's because the only decent democrats to be leaders are under 40 and female.
“voters don't associate Trump's unpopular policies with the GOP” The Republican Party is completely and utterly and slavishly subservient to Trump—how is it possible that voters don’t connect Trump to the GOP? Republicans certainly do.
Basically believing the myth that Republicans were just fiscally conservative rural folk and Trump is somehow an anomaly rather than the ultimate expression of everything they worked for the past decades. "He's not really what the Republican Party is about!"
The reason the Dems are underwater is because thy are not fighting back. The party needs to move left, attack the billionaires, attack Trump and attack the GOP. Constant attacks. Start work. The billionaires - they are the biggest problem.
Exactly. If polled I would say that plus permanent ceasefire
"voters don't associate Trump's unpopular policies with the GOP" I mean....
So instead of talking about bipartisanship, they should take the opportunity to tie each and every mothefucking nazi-supporting Republican piece of shit to Trump's murderous, authoritarian policies. Should they have to? No. But they brought it on themselves by trying to appeal to Republican voters
The GOP that is in total control of all 3 branches of government and is gleefully enacting the unpopular policies? The same voters that blamed Dems for not "improving their lives" and whose lives...haven't improved? JFC this is maddening.
I’m sure telling voters like me that this is all my fault is totally gonna shore up the base. 😂
indeed
The policy thing drives me crazy at this point. Trump has no policy goals apart from avoiding accountability and stealing as much wealth as possible. Any actual policy being written is driven by GOP think tanks or ghouls like Stephen Miller. Trump is the corruption golem used by others for evil.
You’re right but the bigger question is, despite getting hundreds of millions, how is it that the Dems got beaten by a guy so shamelessly corrupt and evil.
Disinformation merchants have worked very diligently for decades to make sure the voting population thinks all politicians are corrupt and evil, thus, when obvious evil corruption is on the ballot, it's not a deal-breaker. It also doesn't help that some Dems have been corrupt and evil, so... /1
The reason it’s so easy for the GOP to go on the attack and control the narrative is the Dems always seek more worried about (as you mentioned) decorum. The Dems leadership think they stand for civility and our constitution. What they don’t realize is they stand for the status quo
Then it moves to issues, which, because Dems are never in control of the narrative, are always framed in conservative language.and fought on their battleground. Their bad faith framing is the default all networks use to talk about political issues, so we're constantly marinating in their BS Sigh
Bottom line, MOST OF US are sick and tired of both parties and feel we have little to no representation.
Oh my bi-partisanship! Won't someone think of the decorum? We have to be better than them, while we adopt all of their positions as our own. I hope they send out more text messages begging for $10 so that they can then afford to FINALLY pretend they might be the opposition party, 3 wed each month.
Dems: we want issues that are popular Me: so Medicare for all, right? Dems: no, it will never pass so no point in trying. Me: okay, I think I’ll sit this next one out
You can't fix stupid. How'd that work out for you last time?
Worked out better than the Harris campaign, that’s for sure.
So you're proud of your own ignorance.
It’s pretty apparent that sample was heavily R leaning.