Democratic Party

Dems Must Become the ‘Tough on Disorder’ Party

April 29, 2022 Buck Banks

“The Democrats’ largest problem is this: We are living in an age of fear, insecurity and disorder on an array of fronts. The Republicans have traditionally been known as the party of toughness and order. Democrats are going to have to find a posture that is tough on disorder, and tough on the causes of disorder.”

— David Brooks

Klain Says His Job Is to Make Sure Progressive Voices Are Heard

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Buck Banks

“Progressives are a big part of our party and making sure their voices are heard here at the White House is a big part of my job.”

— White House chief of staff Ron Klain, in an interview with the Daily Beast.

Dems’ Long-Term Structural Issue with Rural Voters

December 17, 2020 Buck Banks

“I think there’s a long-term structural issue. And by the way, I’ve had this conversation with Chuck Schumer several times — that we have to do a better job developing a message so that rural Americans can say, ‘Yeah, those guys, they think like I do.’ Because that’s what Trump has right now.”

— Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), quoted by the New York Times, on Democrats and rural voters.

Gallup: US Party Preference Has Shifted Dramatically to Democrats Since January

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Jon Ponder

Gallup: “Since January, Americans’ party preferences have shifted dramatically in the Democratic Party’s direction. What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning has become an 11-point Democratic advantage, with more of that movement reflecting a loss in Republican identification and leaning (down eight points) than a gain in Democratic identification and leaning (up five points).”

AOC Claims She and Biden Don’t Belong in the Same Party

January 7, 2020 Buck Banks

“In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party.”

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in an interview with New York magazine.

Alabama Democratic Party Being ‘Destroyed from Within’

September 16, 2019 Buck Banks

“It’s being destroyed from within.”

— Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), quoted by the Montgomery Advertiser, on the Alabama Democratic Party.

National Political Environment Is Trending Blue

September 12, 2019 Buck Banks

5.5%

The Daily Kos Special Elections Tracker shows that Democrats are outperforming Hillary Clinton’s margins by an average of 5.5% across 39 federal and state legislative special elections since November 2018. This is roughly the same as the 6.5% spread shown in the generic congressional ballot averages.

More Americans Identify as Independent

January 7, 2019 Buck Banks

42%

Gallup: “Significantly more U.S. adults continued to identify as political independents (42%) in 2018 than as either Democrats (30%) or Republicans (26%). At least four in 10 Americans have been political independents in seven of the past eight years, including a record-high 43% in 2014.”

Steyer to Spend $110 Million to Create a Parallel Democratic Machine

August 1, 2018 Buck Banks

$110 million

“Tom Steyer has set plans to spend at least $110 million in 2018, making the billionaire investor the largest single source of campaign cash on the left and placing him on a path to create a parallel party infrastructure with polling, analytics and staffing capabilities that stand to shape and define the issues the party runs on in November,” Politico reports.

The New Democratic Party

June 29, 2018 Buck Banks

— David Brooks

“Progressives are a big part of our party and making sure their voices are heard here at the White House is a big part of my job.”

— White House chief of staff Ron Klain, in an interview with the Daily Beast.

— Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), quoted by the New York Times, on Democrats and rural voters.

“In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party.”

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in an interview with New York magazine.

“It’s being destroyed from within.”

— Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), quoted by the Montgomery Advertiser, on the Alabama Democratic Party.

5.5%

42%

Gallup: “Significantly more U.S. adults continued to identify as political independents (42%) in 2018 than as either Democrats (30%) or Republicans (26%). At least four in 10 Americans have been political independents in seven of the past eight years, including a record-high 43% in 2014.”

$110 million

“I am absolutely proud to be a Democrat but it also means that the Democratic Party is a big tent and there are so many ways to be a Democrat.”

— Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), interviewed on CNN, about calling herself a Democratic socialist.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Tom Nichols

— Jeffrey Toobin

“What a surprise… right on schedule… here comes the ‘midterms variant.’”

— Fox News host Maria Bartiromo suggested that Democrats are trying to create a new Covid-19 variant to help them win the midterm elections.

“Bill O’Reilly’s really talented. He’s more talented than I am… But I think there’s a deep phoniness at the center of his shtick… built on perception that he is the character he plays… The moment that it’s revealed not to be true it’s over.”

— Tucker Carlson, on C-SPAN on September 13, 2003.

“I do not think Putin is a character like Hitler. He comes out of Dostoyevsky.”

— Henry Kissinger, in an interview with the Financial Times.

Numerati

75%

5

$15 million

39 Point Drop

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