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House Democratic leaders seeking to condense their campaign platform into voter-friendly messaging bites are facing a number of options and plenty of competition at the table.
Party leaders intend to repeat the playbook the party used in 2006, when they won control of the House with promises to prioritize a handful of specific policies largely designed to ease middle-class economic insecurity.
Democrats plan to offer a similar platform later this year. The question facing leaders in the meantime, though, is how to hone the list so it resonates most loudly in crucial swing districts while also appeasing various party factions, each of which has its own idea about which issues deserve precedence.
Politically, their preference is to have some agenda items and some broad ideas that the party will fight for, and enough vagueness that its hard to be pinned down, said Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University and political analyst for CNN.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/386818-dems-look-to-decide-on-midterm-message?userid=229233
pangaia
(24,324 posts)To much thinking going on...
I mean, how freakin' hard can this be?
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Now that we have proof - again.
Blue Ribbon winner! And sadly, not that far from the truth.
Still laughing.