No, I'm saying republican PR on economy is massively beating Democrats, that gaining the popular vote in presidential elections is only a small part of a big picture when legislative, local, and state politics exist.
I haven't only pointed to Miami-dade... I've pointed to that county as an example in the presidential election.
From Gallop:
And your argument is that Republicans tying Democratic candidates to a phrase that is negatively perceived by the majority of Americans is ineffective. And Democrats doing nothing to either counter the negative connotation or separate themselves from the label. And you see this as no problem at all?
Conclusion from the Gallop data set:
We've seen this.
We've seen this, with Miami-Dade being the most high profile example.
No doubt we'll see it here as well when the dust settles.
Like I said, Democratic Party has no idea strategy for taking credit for their economic successes. We've got blue collar, union workers choosing republicans. Things panned out for the presidential election. But there's till a long way to go on Main st.
I'm saying that if you look at the last two cycles, and special elections in between, Democrats have won state level and local elections than Republicans.
Pointing to a single part of a state and using that as an example doesn't really work, because as I've said multiple times, that trend isn't replicated in swing states, let alone in the rest of the country. In 2020 relative to 2016 Democrats are going to have better numbers.
I don't know how anyone can look at a party that nominated Joe Biden and say that they've done nothing to convince their potential voters that they are not socialists.
The idea that socialism has a negative connotation in the US doesn't mean that you're able to successfully tie that to your opposing party. And if you were able to do that it doesn't mean that it would be effective enough of an attack to justify the time you spend on it. And what we've seen, over the last couple of cycylee, as we look the results is that Republicans, generally, aren't getting the results they need.
At the end of the day, in 2020 Democrats are going to have huge turnout, and mostly won independents. "But in miami dade Republicans increased their numbers" doesn't rebuke the fact that relative the 2016 the opposite happened everywhere else. We can't ignore the rest of the country.
Essentially your argument kinda boils down to saying, if Democrats aren't winning by like 8 points (which they would need to be doing every cycle to be constantly winning all swing races), then that must be because they haven't properly dealt with the attack of being socialists and so even if they're still winning most of their races, they're failures. I don't see how that makes sense.
Yeah, we have blue collar union workers voting Republican, but there are loads of reasons why people vote the way they do. And people have more needs and wants than material ones.
