There are a lot of polls like this, where it's clear voters are not happy about Democrats' word choices.
But Democrats cannot just change the words they use and win back voters; the words aren't the issue, the values are.
"Defund the police" is bad because of what it means.
People can deny, deflect, and hope to trick voters into thinking everything is right because they're calling Hispanics Latino again instead of referring to them as Latinx or Brown Bodies, but that's not going to work.
The values are what's really off-putting to voters.
Plain language might be less infuriating, but it only makes insanity clearer.
"I want to take away the funding from your local police department"
hold up
"I want to abolish immigration enforcement"
wait, no
"I want bathrooms that aren't gated by sex"
Stay away from my kids!
I'm hopeful Democratic leadership will push back against its parties intellectual elites, Warrenites, highly-credentialed interns, and would-be bureaucrats sitting in GS-15 sinecures and academic ivory towers.
But I won't be holding my breath.
Links:
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
pewresearch.org/re_2024-09-12_…
docs.cdn.yougov.com/86ijosd7cy/202…
fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-…, politico.com/story/2018/07/…
Oh, and I don't think anyone will fall for the bait-and-switch as often anymore.
People have seen enough of politicos saying ''defund the police' means 'reform the police to be nicer :)'' to realize that it's a lie and they really meant defunding the police.
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