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Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds (www.wsj.com)

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The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.

The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party—the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Is this going to be a thing? Okay, the poll is some Democratic guy and “Trump’s pollster”, whatever that means, and they called 1,500 people on landlines and mobile phones and these results are the people that answered and gave a number to insightful questions like “how favorably do you view the Democrats? How favorably do you view the republicans?”

Do you answer your phone for unknown callers?

“The Democratic brand is so bad that they don’t have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who worked on the Journal survey with Republican Tony Fabrizio.

[–] PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

The Democrats' stated strategy, after putting their heads together and trying to figure out how they got trounced on the last election - is to go more hardcore "center" than they previously have.

It's basically impossible to tell at this point if they're the most clownishly out of touch group of people imaginable, or actively complicit and just waiting for the pendulum to swing slightly back so they can be "successful" again, for a bit. Certainly a mix, but -

The only reason I lend credence to the former at all, is just how cartoonishly bad Dems are at almost everything lately. I say lately because throughout my life there have been at least sincere-seeming efforts from (some) Dems to help (some) regular people. Some might argue (with ample justification) that it's always been this way, but the situation does feel distinctly bleak to me today.

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