One Reason Democratic Momentum May Stall

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

There is a headline in this morning's on-line news publication HuffPost in which a "top party" pollster declares that "Democratic Midterm Momentum Has Stalled."   The story, based on a report prepared exclusively for HuffPost by Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, Greenberg Research, and Democracy Corps warned that unless Democrats stick to their bread-and-butter issues - like jobs and health care - they could lose their messaging in the rosy macro picture that Republicans are trying to paint of an economy surging because of tax cuts.

The economy is doing quite well for some, but those aren't the people that Democrats need to be targeting.  The authors of the HuffPost memo argue that Democrats need to be going after the "Rising American Electorate," a group they see as being comprised of minority voters, millennials, and single women.

“Democrats sit at the edge of a landslide repudiation of President Trump and Republicans ― in the Congress and states where they govern -– in November.   Democrats have huge opportunities with minorities, millennials, and unmarried women, and even white working-class women, that will allow them to dominate across battlegrounds in 2018.”

The message, one of focusing on individual struggles in society rather than some landscape mural of an economy measured by corporate profits and stock prices, is right on target.  When Democrats stick to democratic values, they win.

But there was a bit more to the message than just the dire warning of a pollster.  Directly above the story was a photograph of Democratic Antiquarian and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.  Firing up minorities, millennials, and single women might be easier to do if the Democratic Party was led by people who looked and acted more like the voters it so desperately seeks to attract.

Just sayin' . . .