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John Kerry: Democrats woes stem from uninformed voters
Its the electorate, stupid!
By Hillary Chabot | Saturday, September 25, 2010 | Home - BostonHerald.com | U.S. Politics
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Photo by Matthew Healey
A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation.
We have an electorate that doesnt always pay that much attention to whats going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or whats happening, Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday...
I think a lot of the anger today - while its appropriate because Washington is broken - is not directed at the right people, said Kerry. Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what were doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what were doing, it frankly makes sense.
In the interview, Kerry added that voters should be mad at stonewalling Republicans and big money in politics instead, referring to a bill blocked by Republicans Thursday that would reveal corporate and union leaders who fund big-bucks political ads.
He went on to blame the legislative logjam in Washington, D.C., for fewer federal dollars sent to the state...
Kerry: The Public Is Uninformed
Opinion: Memo to Dems -- Tea Party Attacks Won't Fly
(Sept. 24) -- "Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the G.O.P" was the early page-one headline in The New York Times the other day. Ah, but this wasn't just any old "ad assault." No, this one was an assault against the dreaded tea party. The goal, according to the story, would be to "cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists."
The White House denied the story (and the Times later tweaked the headline), but you just know it was true. I may not like the liberal tendencies of The New York Times, but they don't simply make up stories over there.
Besides, on the same day the Times story came out (Monday), Vice President Joe Biden told a fundraiser in Ohio that the alternative to Democrats this fall is "the Republican tea party."
And a few weeks earlier in Philadelphia, Ed Rendell, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania (and savvy political operative), said the Republican Party "is slowly but surely being taken over by wackos. They're nuts. They're flat-out crazy."
Memo to Democrats: For your own good, STOP!
Painting the tea party folks as extremist nut-jobs is a big mistake. Tying tea partiers to the Republicans will not hurt the GOP. It will help them and hurt you!
What a lot of Democrats don't seem to get, even at this very late date, is that voters don't think tea partiers are the ones who are extreme and out of the mainstream. They think Democrats are the extremists who have lost touch with the mainstream. They rightly see Democrats as the ones who are spending us into a hole so deep that no one knows when (or if) we will emerge. That, they are saying, is extreme. That is out of the mainstream...
Just came across this related article, the Democrats should learn that talking down to the electorate just isn't a winning strategy:
Opinion: Memo to Democrats -- Tea Party Attacks Won't Fly
Opinion: Memo to Dems -- Tea Party Attacks Won't Fly
(Sept. 24) -- "Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the G.O.P" was the early page-one headline in The New York Times the other day. Ah, but this wasn't just any old "ad assault." No, this one was an assault against the dreaded tea party. The goal, according to the story, would be to "cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists."
The White House denied the story (and the Times later tweaked the headline), but you just know it was true. I may not like the liberal tendencies of The New York Times, but they don't simply make up stories over there.
Besides, on the same day the Times story came out (Monday), Vice President Joe Biden told a fundraiser in Ohio that the alternative to Democrats this fall is "the Republican tea party."
And a few weeks earlier in Philadelphia, Ed Rendell, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania (and savvy political operative), said the Republican Party "is slowly but surely being taken over by wackos. They're nuts. They're flat-out crazy."
Memo to Democrats: For your own good, STOP!
Painting the tea party folks as extremist nut-jobs is a big mistake. Tying tea partiers to the Republicans will not hurt the GOP. It will help them and hurt you!
What a lot of Democrats don't seem to get, even at this very late date, is that voters don't think tea partiers are the ones who are extreme and out of the mainstream. They think Democrats are the extremists who have lost touch with the mainstream. They rightly see Democrats as the ones who are spending us into a hole so deep that no one knows when (or if) we will emerge. That, they are saying, is extreme. That is out of the mainstream...
Wonderful explanation for November:
John Kerry: Democrats’ woes stem from uninformed voters - BostonHerald.com
John Kerry: Democrats woes stem from uninformed voters
Its the electorate, stupid!
By Hillary Chabot | Saturday, September 25, 2010 | Home - BostonHerald.com | U.S. Politics
Photo
Photo by Matthew Healey
A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation.
We have an electorate that doesnt always pay that much attention to whats going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or whats happening, Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday...
I think a lot of the anger today - while its appropriate because Washington is broken - is not directed at the right people, said Kerry. Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what were doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what were doing, it frankly makes sense.
In the interview, Kerry added that voters should be mad at stonewalling Republicans and big money in politics instead, referring to a bill blocked by Republicans Thursday that would reveal corporate and union leaders who fund big-bucks political ads.
He went on to blame the legislative logjam in Washington, D.C., for fewer federal dollars sent to the state...
Just came across this related article, the Democrats should learn that talking down to the electorate just isn't a winning strategy:
Opinion: Memo to Democrats -- Tea Party Attacks Won't Fly
Opinion: Memo to Dems -- Tea Party Attacks Won't Fly
(Sept. 24) -- "Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the G.O.P" was the early page-one headline in The New York Times the other day. Ah, but this wasn't just any old "ad assault." No, this one was an assault against the dreaded tea party. The goal, according to the story, would be to "cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists."
The White House denied the story (and the Times later tweaked the headline), but you just know it was true. I may not like the liberal tendencies of The New York Times, but they don't simply make up stories over there.
Besides, on the same day the Times story came out (Monday), Vice President Joe Biden told a fundraiser in Ohio that the alternative to Democrats this fall is "the Republican tea party."
And a few weeks earlier in Philadelphia, Ed Rendell, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania (and savvy political operative), said the Republican Party "is slowly but surely being taken over by wackos. They're nuts. They're flat-out crazy."
Memo to Democrats: For your own good, STOP!
Painting the tea party folks as extremist nut-jobs is a big mistake. Tying tea partiers to the Republicans will not hurt the GOP. It will help them and hurt you!
What a lot of Democrats don't seem to get, even at this very late date, is that voters don't think tea partiers are the ones who are extreme and out of the mainstream. They think Democrats are the extremists who have lost touch with the mainstream. They rightly see Democrats as the ones who are spending us into a hole so deep that no one knows when (or if) we will emerge. That, they are saying, is extreme. That is out of the mainstream...
Because we all know that Bernie Goldberg is the go-to person on politics.
The tea party continues to nominate extremist candidates, eventually the question has to be asked whether the group that are nominating these people are extremists themselves. The numbers have already shown they are for the most part in reality the far right wing base of the GOP.
Tell me Annie, how accurate is it to say that "separation of church and state" came from Hitler?
Originally posted by Gop guy
Yes, but never unestimate how uninformed and stupid people can be, that's how Billiary got the White House.
I agree. Those that care have to go and work this at the grassroots level. I have been.
Benefits: GW has better chance of reelection; comp dinner and rally tickets
Remember folks, it's okay to call the public uninformed, if it helps your side:
Originally posted by Gop guy
Yes, but never unestimate how uninformed and stupid people can be, that's how Billiary got the White House.
I agree. Those that care have to go and work this at the grassroots level. I have been.
Benefits: GW has better chance of reelection; comp dinner and rally tickets
I'm not running for office.
I love the smell of irony in the morning.
Wonderful explanation for November:
John Kerry: Democrats’ woes stem from uninformed voters - BostonHerald.com
John Kerry: Democrats woes stem from uninformed voters
Its the electorate, stupid!
By Hillary Chabot | Saturday, September 25, 2010 | Home - BostonHerald.com | U.S. Politics
Photo
Photo by Matthew Healey
A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation.
We have an electorate that doesnt always pay that much attention to whats going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or whats happening, Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday...
I think a lot of the anger today - while its appropriate because Washington is broken - is not directed at the right people, said Kerry. Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what were doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what were doing, it frankly makes sense.
In the interview, Kerry added that voters should be mad at stonewalling Republicans and big money in politics instead, referring to a bill blocked by Republicans Thursday that would reveal corporate and union leaders who fund big-bucks political ads.
He went on to blame the legislative logjam in Washington, D.C., for fewer federal dollars sent to the state...
LOL, the ole LURCH musta got into Tereeeeezas gin soaked white raisins.
And don't ya just LOVE how a lefties thinks the AVERAGE AMERCIAN CITIZTEN running for office as a Republican is now an, EXTREAMIST.
The gawddamned EXTREAMIST are now running our Guberment. And the American people are starting to REALIZE it. Except for the die hard, Obamabots.
LOL! Good hunting and pecking. And I have a national audience?
BS, I already answered the god deal, it's from the far right as perjoratives and from the left as truth, but not using 'messiah', rather The One. I've not called libs ignorant, rather uninformed. Maybe you're right on that. They are.
The divide between those that follow politics and those that don't has been growing since at least 1920. Today as the post below discusses, the gap is widening, thanks in large measure to those that follow having so many more ways to gather information, quickly though not necessarily well.
