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The Way Forward

Raven123

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3. Show them a different boogie man, perhaps

Reply to somsai (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 05:19 PM

May 30

The GOP has succeeded in branding so many people as boogie men that male voters have their pick. Think women, immigrants, POC, LGBT etc..

Come up with a common boogie man that many can easily understand and harp on it relentlessly. Obviously, I think that is what Bernie Sanders has done so well - the large corporations.

Dems might need to make the issue more granular to specific communities to show how they have been affected. For example, big agriculture has decimated family farms. Take the message to those areas and hammer it home.

Just my 2 cents.

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What can we do to win back the male voter? [View all] somsai May 30 OP

Run a white, middle-aged, protestant, straight man. I don't like it, but we need to face Scrivener7 May 30 #1

I agree. Haggard Celine May 30 #4

The percent of white male vote hasn't shifted as dramatically somsai May 30 #7

Doesn't matter. A white, male, protestant, middle-aged, straight man will bring them back. Scrivener7 May 30 #8

Chris Murphy, our Dem Senator from CT, fits the bill! CTyankee May 31 #14

I totally agree Scrivener7 Jun 1 #18

IMO, he is handsome/nice as opposed to what we have now. But that is not the question. CTyankee Jun 1 #19

I think that US culture values and promotes markodochartaigh May 30 #2

I think you're on to something there somsai May 30 #13

Show them a different boogie man, perhaps Raven123 May 30 #3

Dems have been accused of lacking marking moxie. Gum Logger May 31 #16

I struggled to understand the campaign Raven123 May 31 #17

We shudda known, but we (or really I shudda) the moment Biden had his "moment" in the debate where he went off track. CTyankee Jun 7 #21

Stop treating young black men as all gangsters. Stop shooting them in the streets. Simple little things. marble falls May 30 #5

With the Media that seems to paste a dark reality, whenever the Democrats are in front and center.... chouchou May 30 #6

How about male and female voters? Ponietz May 30 #9

There's a lot of polling showing non voters favored Trump somsai May 30 #11

Cites please Ponietz May 30 #12

https://www.natesilver.net/p/turnout-didnt-cost-kamala-harris somsai May 31 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author usonian May 30 #10

Well, I produced one... CTyankee Jun 2 #20