Democratic pollster: 'We’ve got a national
branding problem that is probably deeper
than a lot of people suspect'
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/2/2021 11:25:21 PM
Last week Politico published a story about the moderate Democratic group Third Way, specifically their efforts to figure out what went wrong for Dems in Virginia’s most recent election. You may recall that story because one unnamed Democratic strategist offered a memorable assessment of House Democrats’ efforts to pass the BBB bill after the Virginia election: “Too late. We’re f**ked!”
Today, the NY Times published an interview with the democratic pollster who carried out those Virginia focus groups. His name is Bryan Stryker and his memo summing up what he learned from them has apparently spread far and wide among Democrats. He is still trying to sound the alarm
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scribelus 12/2/2021 11:36:47 PM (No. 995549)
Maybe, just maybe, the jig is up.
43 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/2/2021 11:52:13 PM (No. 995553)
Your national brand is Communist Criminal Party. That is the brand you carry, the brand you develop every day, so it must not be a problem for the Democrat Party, as that is what they do.
67 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Penney 12/3/2021 12:12:07 AM (No. 995555)
The dems have branded their own party by choosing to divide & destroy. Who wants what that party is doing to America?!!!
64 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
qr4j 12/3/2021 1:10:16 AM (No. 995563)
Branding? Branding isn’t the problem. It is what these Leftists stand for that is the problem. It is anti-American and the rule of law.
It’s not the wrapper on this loaf of bread. It’s the bread inside that’s moldy and rotting and filled with bugs.
100 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 12/3/2021 2:28:49 AM (No. 995579)
The fact of the matter is that millions of people have caught on to the Democrat message which is a thinly disguised version of 21st century communism. For most people communism is undesireable. Lets Go Brandon MAGA
60 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/3/2021 2:53:40 AM (No. 995581)
It’s not a ‘branding’ problem; it’s a Brandon problem!
82 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
mifla 12/3/2021 3:55:58 AM (No. 995589)
Everything you touch ends up a mess. Reality does tend to enter into the picture.
47 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/3/2021 5:21:24 AM (No. 995605)
Branding problem, I guess. I probably see it differently. Democrats want to brand Republicans. Kind of like when a herd of cows are branded. Vaccine mandate and vaccine database come to mind.
What if it was an immigration status mandate and vaccine database? What if it was an abortion status mandate and database? What if it was a HIV status mandate and database? I could go on and on but Democrats are trying very hard to obtain power and keep it. At all costs. It is about superiority through elitism.
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Irony is usually bitter but occasionally sweet.
In choosing the bland (they thought), inoffensive, anodyne Joe Biden as their vehicle to bring undiluted communism into the White House, they failed to realize that without a street hustler doing sleight-of-hand a la Obama that people would look past the bland, inoffensive, anodyne Biden and see what the true agenda was, especially when the cabinet members were obviously vapid, swivel-eyed communist loons.
It's been said a thousand times but Biden isn't up to the job, whether you loathe him or support him. He literally lacks the energy to speak for an hour let alone conduct meetings, travel, etc. As such all they can do is shuffle him out to announce the latest outrage. Biden is a small-minded jerk who resents opposition despite seeing opposition as part of daily life for 50 years in DC. So, he's letting his own side down.
32 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
gwholmessr 12/3/2021 6:17:39 AM (No. 995621)
Democrats are no longer Democrats, Republicans are no longer conservative,. They are all in it for themselves, the only one I see doing good is Desantis
42 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/3/2021 6:20:53 AM (No. 995623)
And one more comment. When we have lackluster or lukewarm people heading up the RNC, branding by the Democrats will be easily accomplished.
34 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/3/2021 6:45:42 AM (No. 995640)
It’s not a branding problem. It’s an evil policy problem.
46 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
DW626 12/3/2021 6:46:35 AM (No. 995642)
Fascists don’t give up power willingly and easily, be cautious and aware, but not afraid.
25 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rinktum 12/3/2021 6:49:57 AM (No. 995643)
Branding problem? Your wicked party has a soul problem and that can only be solved by a Come to Jesus meeting.
32 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
homefry 12/3/2021 7:18:05 AM (No. 995658)
Communism can be allowed in, dim-0s have proven that. They say you can only end it with bullets. I "HOPE" it dont come to that, but we'll see.
14 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/3/2021 7:33:40 AM (No. 995678)
One expects to see a Crazy Clown show when one attends the circus but not from the Federal Government. The act is over, get out of the ring.
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/3/2021 7:40:38 AM (No. 995683)
Oh..I can tell them what went wrong in Virginia. Didn't cheat enough. They didn't make that mistake after the loss of 2016 - as many had predicted.
16 people like this.
Yup, you've got a branding problem alright. And a policy problem. And an ideology problem. Not to mention that intelligence problem you all seem to struggle with.
19 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/3/2021 7:56:28 AM (No. 995700)
This reflects a consistent attitude where they rationalize lack of support with a failure in messaging or explaining as in the people are too stupid to know what's good for them ant it's a challenge to get through our thick skulls.
Please do not tell them, that their problem isn't that people don't understand due to their struggles to brand, message and explain, it's that they do understand and see through the branding messaging and contortioned explanations. Let's just keep that to ourselves.
11 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
walcb 12/3/2021 8:02:43 AM (No. 995705)
Yes, in the VA governor vote I have to wonder how much the dims cheated and it still wasn't enough.
17 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Kutchk 12/3/2021 8:07:08 AM (No. 995709)
ALL THAT …. and led by a doddering old fool.
15 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
BillW. 12/3/2021 8:13:08 AM (No. 995712)
What irked me most about progressives is their air of smug superiority about President Trump. And they still display it, despite everything Obiden has done to turn America into a Marxist state.
Go Brandon.
22 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/3/2021 8:33:03 AM (No. 995732)
Dims and Stryker, what's to worry. Voting fraud will take care of it. The chicoms, russkies, and the mullahs have your back. No problemo.
Are we on to your totalitarian branding schtick? Oh, yes, we certainly are. Will pushing new narratives save your party, dims? Probably, but you would have to leave America and move to the third world. There are plenty of hellholes on the planet where your so-called branding would fit in just fine.
12 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
privateer 12/3/2021 8:40:29 AM (No. 995735)
Imagine looking in on a sales meeting.T|he head of Marketing is telling his underlings: our dog-poop popovers just aren't selling well enough. Maybe our trade name 'Fairy Dream Cakes' just isn't appealing enough. Discuss!
12 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 12/3/2021 8:51:41 AM (No. 995741)
Unbelievable that anyone labeled Biden as bland and inoffensive. I've watched him over the years and when he's not vicious and condescending he's patronizing and arrogant!
27 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
pmcclure 12/3/2021 9:08:27 AM (No. 995755)
It's not the appearance that's the problem - it's the fundamental evil at the heart of this group.
22 people like this.
Translation: Get those dominion machines and "late arriving" mail in ballots ready. We're really gonna need them this time!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
dman 12/3/2021 9:35:23 AM (No. 995790)
So does the GOP. Leadership continues to "cave" to the Democrat agenda.
Prove me wrong .. no more CRs and no increase of the debt limit. Let the Dems shut the government down.
Not holding my breath.
9 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
starboard 12/3/2021 9:51:39 AM (No. 995799)
The Democrats have a breeding problem. For decades they've raised children with hate, anger and lies. Then only to send their little brats off to be indoctrinated in college by communist professors. Yes, they've spawned another generation into Anti American anger and hate. These victims of diversity have become a plague on our society. Inadvertently, Covid has woke people up, especially young parents. They are starting to see the destruction of the Left. When all is said and done, this ugly time in our history will be what was needed to turn our country around and MAGA.
9 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
red1066 12/3/2021 9:51:56 AM (No. 995801)
That's it. It's your branding that's the problem. These people think they are so superior to everyone else, and they're so smug about it, yet they can't see the forest for the trees.
9 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/3/2021 10:00:59 AM (No. 995814)
Branding? That's funny the democrat communist count on people to be non-thinking numbskulls so they can be tricked by their lies. When I read in an article that a 'Biden voter' or a lifelong democrat supporter voted for change in Virginia my vision is of a dimwit idiot who doesn't even think at all. Their hatred of Trump really doesn't carry weight when it comes to issues the left would have to be blind to not see his success especially with their 'Brandon' problem now. The democrats are now dead ducks in the water with their leadership problems with the likes of Joe Biden. FJB
8 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/3/2021 10:07:16 AM (No. 995822)
Americans are finally waking up...and the democrats are besides themselves...only proves to me that they are so out of touch with John Q American they can not recover...only blm will represent democrats now...and let's not forget antifa and soros...the party of my darling husband and FDR are gone...it didn't take long for one generation to mess up our country...BUT...WE are fighting back...
10 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/3/2021 10:11:49 AM (No. 995831)
No way could it be deeper than I expect unless they go to the 9th circle of Hell.
9 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
hershey 12/3/2021 10:27:48 AM (No. 995865)
They need to change their face from the donkeys face to its azzzzz....be more like them..
6 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Trapper 12/3/2021 10:27:53 AM (No. 995866)
Branding problem? Branding problem? Like, the Plague has a branding problem, and more people would want it if it could just re-brand itself as a puppy.
Oh, and Third Way? Seriously? THEY are still around? I would have thought they would by now be hiding their faces in shame. Their idea was to introduce capitalism into Chinese Marxism, and in a miracle or Hegelian/Marxist synthesis - voila! - a "Third Way," the perfect hybrid child of communism and capitalism.
Only problem is, what they produced was Globalist Fascism, the worst of both, multinational corporations in league with unelected government bureaucrats scheming to establish a single world government un-tethered to any locality. And, just like covid-19, this new abomination also escaped from China to ravage the world. No borders, no nations.
8 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/3/2021 11:09:42 AM (No. 995917)
DNC Dog Dookie on Toast, eat hardy!
1 person likes this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/3/2021 11:51:09 AM (No. 995979)
Just because the Rats stole the election doesn’t make them the majority party in the mindset of the country. Every Trump rally had tens of thousands of real Americans present. We haven’t gone away. This crap they are pulling with blowing up the National debt, open borders and all the rest is bull Twinkie no one wants and we are peed off about it and punishment and payback is going to be harsh. Your time will come to an end. We will not surrender we will not back down and we will fight you relentlessly until you are totally defeated. Guaranteed.
4 people like this.
We the people realize you have a problem since you all got so brazen. It is you democrats that are the ones who don't get what kind of trouble you are in exactly. You are dealing with adults who don't throw tantrums like your minions do, but we take our anger out in other ways.
2 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
NotaBene 12/3/2021 12:04:39 PM (No. 995995)
I am surprised Democrats are not appalled by the destruction of our cities by Black Lives Matter in the middle of a pandemic. The Communist Democrat Party is anti-American. They are the party of Globalism, China, teacher unions, Goldman Sachs, Rothschilds, United Nations, no borders, and skin color. Myself, I will go with Orange Man Trump, best president in my lifetime, and perhaps Democrats will realize this when they pay $5 for gasoline as I do. F. Joe Biden is the new Jimmy Carter: stagflation, inflation, recession, and humiliation by our foreign enemies. MAGA.
2 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
DVC 12/3/2021 12:08:13 PM (No. 996002)
In plain English....."Uh-oh, the voters have figured out how rotten we really are."
5 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
Hermoine 12/3/2021 12:36:00 PM (No. 996052)
The way the Dems have positioned their issues and quite frankly, themselves, allows for NO middle ground. There is no "center" anymore because they've pushed so hard Left they've left little room for anyone who disagrees with them. In their current position, they cannot capture moderates - doesn't mean Republicans pick up all of them, some will just sit it out, but Republicans will pick up a majority of them. And the racism, sexism, genderism thing has played out. Does racism exist? Yes, yes, it does. Did racism exist in this country -- yes, yes it did. Most people know this, understand it and want to move forward. They do not want to litigate the past because it simply does not help the present nor does it help build the future.
3 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 12/3/2021 4:29:33 PM (No. 996256)
Lets brand every democrats rear end with a hot iron!
Lets go BRAND---ON!!!!
2 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 12/3/2021 5:39:37 PM (No. 996297)
A branding problem? Like...marketing?
Hey, what if the Democrats' problem is that the public perceives their true nature?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
JackBurton 12/3/2021 6:37:42 PM (No. 996331)
Great posts all but...
...I think #40 has it....
with an economy of words.
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Having a branding problem isn’t an issue when you are allowed to steal elections.
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