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Message   Mike Powell    DIGIMAUS   Democrats Cracked?   July 24, 2025
 9:56 AM *  

>    Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville is proving that old saying
>    about how even a broken clock is right twice a day.

>    Carville wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times over the weekend
>    that described his own party as a `cracked-out clown car.' Who could
>    possibly disagree with his assessment?

>    A recent poll found that the approval rating for Democrats in Congress is
>    now a measly 19 percent. The party just nominated a communist for mayor of
>    New York City. They have no leader, no message, and offer no ideas to the
>    American people.

I have heard a lot of Democrats, including a young lady running for
congress in Illinois, claim that now is not the time for the Democrats to
try to appeal to the moderate/center voters but that instead they need to
go even "farther left."  Some of them back these claims with poll data of
registered Democrats.

My thinking is that those that are being polled are going to vote Democrat
no matter who is running, even if we were in an alternate universe where
Donald Trump was still a Democrat.

There has been some online speculation that Kentucky's governor could run
for President -- he is a two-term Democrat that wins in a state that is
mostly represented by Republicans in Congress, and a state that voted
overwhelmingly for Trump in the last 3 elections.  Lot of these
left-leaning Democrats poo-poo that idea because he is too moderate, he
works with Republicans to get things done, and he is from -- ick! --
Kentucky and not New York, Illinois, California, etc.

The Democrats are likely already pulling in most of the left voters -- they
certainly aren't losing them to the Republicans -- so the "farther left"
strategy sounds like a losing plan.

Jerking too far towards either side is what is breaking things.  It is also
what is causing so many people not to vote at all.  They -- both parties --
need to figure out what it is that will attract those that are too turned
off to vote at all.  My guess is that most of them are moderates.

Mike

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