Or “lose the House and the Senate overwhelmingly in 2022.”
Three guesses as to which slogan will “lose the House and the Senate overwhelmingly in 2022,” and the first two don’t count. It’s not just the slogan that torpedoed what should have been a successful 2020 election cycle for Democrats, Doug Schoen warns. The party faces a tough choice in the midterms, although a rather obvious one: Democrats should stop pressing “defund the police” and other hot-button social issues if they want to stay competitive in 2022, according to new research from longtime Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen. “The data says to me that if the Democrats go the progressive route they can lose the House and the Senate overwhelmingly in 2022,” Schoen told The Post. “The incoming Biden administration has to understand that unless they take a moderate path, that is a likely potential outcome for the Democrats.” It’s not just the slogan that created problems for Democrats, but that certainly contributed to it. Barack Obama — hardly among the moderate faction himself — told Peter Hamby the same thing earlier in the week. People may support some reforms in policing, but they don’t want police cut back or abolished, a point that progressive firebrands refuse to recognize. “You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get the changes you want done,” Obama observed.
