You don’t win elections by convincing the far left/ right to vote for you. They will vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they see you as equally too far left/right as your opponent).
You win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.
Convince them you’ll give them better living standards and they won’t care what you do with foregin policy and minority rights.
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
I recall a damn lot of the Biden administration was spent saying “no no the economy is really really good look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and stop talking about groceries!” and not promising to fix anything.
Does that sound like effective campaigning to you?
I believe strong evidence of this would be how politicians spend the majority of their time and money campaigning in a few swing states. In strong left or right-leaning states, that majority of voters is taken for granted.
If the opposite is true we would expect to observe two parties with very different views and tending to drift further and further away from each other to capture the extreme voters.
You don’t win elections by convincing the far left/ right to vote for you. They will vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they see you as equally too far left/right as your opponent).
You win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.
Convince them you’ll give them better living standards and they won’t care what you do with foregin policy and minority rights.
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
I recall a damn lot of the Biden administration was spent saying “no no the economy is really really good look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and stop talking about groceries!” and not promising to fix anything.
Does that sound like effective campaigning to you?
Yeah, I mean that approach worked so well in 2016 and 2024, why not give it another shot?
Exactly! Which is why moving right every cycle has proved to be such a winning strategy for the democrats! Finally someone talks sense.
Do you have evidence this is true? I have not seen it in recent US elections.
I believe strong evidence of this would be how politicians spend the majority of their time and money campaigning in a few swing states. In strong left or right-leaning states, that majority of voters is taken for granted.
If the opposite is true we would expect to observe two parties with very different views and tending to drift further and further away from each other to capture the extreme voters.