DCCC, Democrats out-of-touch with U.S. voters

It's obvious that the DCCC isn't connecting with voters. It's obvious because the DCCC didn't just poll on this predicament. They focus-grouped how to avoid this November's imminent catastrophe.

The DCCC presentation is mostly defensive spin. It talks about how to counter Republican "attacks." There's little in the way of forward-looking vision. For instance, it specifically says "The solution does not lie in policy proposals, the pollsters found, because voters are not generally opposed to Democratic policies. 'Rather, Democrats need to demonstrate they fully understand and care about stressors in people's lives' and focus on the issues 'without stoking divisive cultural debates,' one of the slides said."

TRANSLATION: Remind people that Democrats are the party of caring. That relies on Democrats convincing people that Democrat policies of defunding and demoralizing the police or doing nothing on securing the border.

Republicans have the easiest job. They just have to highlight the results of Democrat policies, whether that's on inflation, crime or education/school choice. It's a case of res ipsa loquitur -- Latin for "the thing speaks for itself." Translation: Actions, not words, are what matter.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is recommending a new strategy to endangered members and their teams, hoping to blunt the kinds of GOP attacks that nearly erased their majority last election and remain a huge risk ahead of November. In presentations over the past two weeks, party officials and operatives used polling and focus group findings to argue Democrats can’t simply ignore the attacks, particularly when they're playing at a disadvantage. A generic ballot of swing districts from late January showed Democrats trailing Republicans by 4 points, according to the polling.

It wasn't all bleak, though: The data showed that Democrats could mostly regain the ground lost to Republicans if they offered a strong rebuttal to the political hits. When faced with a "defund the police" attack, for instance, the presenters encouraged Democrats to reiterate their support for police. And on immigration, they said Democrats should deny support for "open borders or amnesty," and talk about their efforts to keep the border safe.

In this interview, Kellyane Conway says "Democrats and Republicans disagree on what the top issues are":

The Quinippiac poll showed the Republicans' top issues as being inflation as the top issue with 36%, immigration with 23% and crime with 11%. Independents essentially mirrored that, with inflation at 32%, immigration at 10% and crime at 9%. Meanwhile, the Democrats' top 3 issues were climate change with 17%, election laws with 16% and inflation at 13%.

It's fair to say that Republicans and independents put a higher priority on kitchen table issues (inflation, crime, open borders) than Democrats do. Democrats put a higher priority on things that might not affect families each day. That's how connections are built or lost.