Messaging by sloganeering is a skill the Democrats rarely master. With the likely defeat of the voting rights bills or a filibuster ban carved out in the Senate, Democrats need to sharpen their message to carry the fight to the state. and local elections. However, when it comes to slogans, they are mealy-mouthed and too verbose in reaching out to those not yet in their camp.
One of my pet peeves is using "voter suppression" as the slogan word. Those claiming suppression was bad were mostly Africa Americans, and coupling it with the racial angle of it. As for the targeted ones, that is understandable. It is not just a civil rights issue. It does not tell how this suppression affects everyone else and how democracy is subverted.." Democracy on the ballot' is another nice slogan but to be effective, it a) depends that those who may not be aware of a)what democracy is and b) how the GOP is hurting it and c) how the alternative of "autocracy" is bad for them.
. Here is my stab: " The GOP is rigging the election system". Couple that with they do it" to turn losers into winners" in future elections. The subset to that can be brief::"by making it harder and more inconvenient for everyone to vote, putting their flunkies in charge of counting votes, and permitting local legislatures to overturn the result they do not like.". .. The "rigging" charge can also serve as a sharp counter-attack to the big lie, that the election was stolen was never proved and has become just their made-up excuse for their power grab legislation. . :
On October 24, Obama charged the GOP was rigging elections and challenged them to come up with ideas voters want instead. Obama lambasts GOP election lies and voting laws aiming to ‘rig elections’ | The Independent
November 5, 2021 ..Some GOP candidates for governor and secretary of states are already openly supporting use of the decertification of elections to overturn election results they do not like without independently finding any evidence that fraud occurred. The integrity of elections is indeed important, but the GOP is out to destroy the integrity of elections. The "integrity" issue needs to be thrown back in the GOP's face. Hit this issue head-on now; waiting until midterm elections are in full swing is too late.
Messaging needs to be sharp and specific. If this is to be counterattack, call it out as to what it pertains. So often in public discourse, Democrats do not draw sharp contrasts with their opponents and avoid using the same words of their opponents in fear it amplifies the GOP message. The goal here is to battle for the soul of the swing voters, not to placate the already Trump base which is already solidified and ready to turn out. Thye do not care about facts or evidence; they just want their guy who channels their own thoughts to win... However, with this sDemocratic pussyfooting mumble so far afraid to take on the most recent GOP talking points by name, voters miss the point... while the GOP message is amplified already, repeated enough it becomes facts, and is nearly impo.ssible to challenge. in any effective way. These GOP messaging strategies needed to be nipped in the bud now before they become an accepted truth. Democrats do not have to use name calling to do this. They do not have to call those concerned with CRT or willful folowwers of racial dog whistles racists, so if you agree, you are being shamed as a racist. That does not work. . . . Stop being subtle and relying on hope voters can deduce the contrast on their own. Instead,. Put the GOP on the defensive. Make decertification a dirty word. Make GOP's "election integrity" become "election manipulation". Make their 'stop the steal" become "how they plan to steal elections". . .By now, if in 9 months of repeated counts and "forensic autdits", call it a "farce" and ask where's the beef? The lie was just that was a trick to get voters to "question integrity" to justify their strategy to overturn elections that did not go their way. Call it a strategy to steal elections. . We all want integrity; not partisan manipulation. Not only does a strategy to replace the control of the count with their own partisans or a GOP-controlled state legislature. if that failed, they want to overturn the popular vote that survives. they do not like. That is how they steal elections..
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