PoliticalChic, Ah, come on, I give you more credit - this thread deserves none. Trump won because he ran against a woman. You are aware of bias against women I hope. It is deep in many people and has to do with a variety of issues, you should know personally. Any male would have beat him, but America is stupid in so many ways and the backroad American is particularly stupid when it comes to women in power. Been there, having served in the military for many years. Grow up and open your eyes.....and mind....
....and you aren't doing much better since the landslide defeat:
Jacobin Mag, a socialist supporter of the Democrat Party ran some polls that may surprise many.
1. "A recent CNN/SSRS poll from March 2025 found that
just 29 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party....This overwhelmingly negative public sentiment toward the Democrats was confirmed by a new study of voters in four Rust Belt states (Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) conducted by the Center for Working-Class Politics (CWCP), the Labor Institute, and Rutgers University. It found that
over 70 percent of Rust Belt voters hold a negative view of the party.
2. ...there was a discernable negative effect of running as a Democrat versus running as an independent....the survey tested respondents’ favorability toward economic populist candidates who employed identical language around corporate greed, lowering costs, and protecting jobs — except that some were described as Democrats and others as independents.....Democrats performed 10 to 16 points worse in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio than otherwise identical independents delivering the same pitch.
3. ...the CWCP/Labor Institute/Rutgers researchers wanted to know
why so many people dislike the Democratic Party,...Contrary to many analyses that have blamed Democrats for holding extreme positions on social and cultural issues that alienated swing voters, the dominant theme we observed was voters’ anger at the Democratic Party for failing to deliver. Among Democratic and independent respondents, the most common critique of the Democratic Party was its perceived inability to carry out policies that help ordinary people.
4..... substantial percentages of both independents and Republicans stressed that they felt the Democratic Party is untrustworthy, either because they lie or because they are corrupt. One Republican respondent reported feeling that the Democratic Party “has become extremely corrupt while pointing the blame at others. [They are] more interested in helping themselves than helping their constituents.” Along similar lines, an independent respondent charged that the Democrats were the “party of the rich and fraudulent.”
Only 11 percent of independents and 19 percent of Republicans explicitly mentioned “wokeness” or ideological extremism in their description of the Democratic Party.
5. ....the evidence suggests most voters who hold negative views of the Democratic Party are motivated less by the culture war than by a broader judgment that the party is captured by elites and not delivering tangible gains for working people.If Democrats have any hope of capitalizing on Republicans’ increasing political vulnerabilities, they need to work tirelessly to show skeptical voters — who feel burned by decades of false promises — that they are serious about reclaiming the mantle of America’s party of the working class."
All quots from
Why Americans Hate the Democratic Party
www.cbsnews.com
ropercenter.cornell.edu
