https://newsmax.com/newsfront/republicans-democrats-independents/2022/12/27/id/1102064/Democrats can campaign from the basement and simply be AGAINST Trump or whoever and independents say Amen. GOP campaigns against Biden and the shit show economy and border and independents say But what are you going to do about it? And then vote for more of it from democrats
I agree that the GOP is shitty on actually putting forward any actual conservative or other ideals and they did rely on simply not being a dementia addled moron like Biden but that still should work. But it doesn't. Voters are inrained into the system that democrats are normal and anything other than a democrat is odd, extreme, and dangerous. The narrative if you will
If the GOP does put out some sort of mission statement it will be dissembled by the narrative as an attack on Social Security and racist. Always racist. And the independents say Amen
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Republicans do not seem to be gaining any ground among independent voters even as support for Democrats continues to decline.
A new Associated Press VoteCast poll conducted with the nonpartisan and objective research organization NORC at the University of Chicago finds that while support for Democrats among independent voters has declined in the last three election cycles, Republicans are not gaining any ground with that important swing voter group.
According to the poll taken following the midterm elections last month, GOP House candidates received 38% support among independents, basically holding the same rates of 37% in 2020, and 38% in 2018. Meanwhile, support for Democrats among the group dropped by 10 percentage points in the midterms.
Democrat House candidates were supported by 51% of independents in 2018 and 52% in 2020, before dropping to just 42% in 2022, according to the polling data.
"You're never telling me what you’re going to do for the state or the country," self-identified independent voter Vickie Klang told the AP after watching a campaign ad for the Republican candidate in her district that compared the Democrat in the race to President Joe Biden. "That's a huge turnoff."
Some experts believe the GOP messaging during the cycle criticizing Biden, a Democrat, is not "resonating" with independents, and while it may do well with the party faithful in primary elections, it fails to hit home in the general election.
"You’ve got to tell them what you’re going to do," said David Winston, a Republican pollster and senior adviser to House Republicans who had been critical of GOP candidates’ messaging strategy this year. "Somehow the Republican campaigns managed not to do that. And that’s a real serious problem."
