watson503
Well-known member
You know it is going to be good when it starts with a quote from Nancy Pelosi and shows just how out of touch these people are. No matter what they say, we know what their true goals are and this is just more bullshit
Deciding to Win
Toward a Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party
“Winning an election is a decision. You make a decision to win, and then you make every decision in favor of winning.”
— Nancy Pelosi
In order to take back Congress and the presidency, Democrats need to understand the political and strategic landscape we face. Deciding to Win aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again. We draw on thousands of election results, hundreds of public polls and academic papers, dozens of case studies, and surveys of more than 500,000 voters we conducted since the 2024 election. Deciding to Win argues that since 2012, highly educated staffers, donors, advocacy groups, pundits, and elected officials have reshaped the Democratic Party's agenda, decreasing our party's focus on the economic issues that are the top concerns of the American people. These same forces have pushed our party to adopt unpopular positions on a number of issues that are important to voters, including immigration and public safety. To win again, Democrats need to listen more to voters and less to out-of-touch donors, detached party elites, and Democratic politicians who consistently underperform the top of the ticket.
To give ourselves the best chance to win, we recommend the following changes to our approach. Democrats need to:
https://decidingtowin.org/
Deciding to Win
Toward a Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party
“Winning an election is a decision. You make a decision to win, and then you make every decision in favor of winning.”
— Nancy Pelosi
Executive Summary
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are damaging our economy and threatening our democracy. Their tariffs are raising prices, hurting businesses, and costing jobs. Their legislative agenda—which pays for tax cuts for the rich by cutting health care for the poor and massively increasing the national debt—hurts all Americans and risks our country's future. Their continued attacks on the rule of law are unacceptable. Defeating Republicans at the ballot box in 2026 and 2028 is a moral and political imperative.In order to take back Congress and the presidency, Democrats need to understand the political and strategic landscape we face. Deciding to Win aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again. We draw on thousands of election results, hundreds of public polls and academic papers, dozens of case studies, and surveys of more than 500,000 voters we conducted since the 2024 election. Deciding to Win argues that since 2012, highly educated staffers, donors, advocacy groups, pundits, and elected officials have reshaped the Democratic Party's agenda, decreasing our party's focus on the economic issues that are the top concerns of the American people. These same forces have pushed our party to adopt unpopular positions on a number of issues that are important to voters, including immigration and public safety. To win again, Democrats need to listen more to voters and less to out-of-touch donors, detached party elites, and Democratic politicians who consistently underperform the top of the ticket.
To give ourselves the best chance to win, we recommend the following changes to our approach. Democrats need to:
- Focus our policy agenda and our messaging on an economic program centered on lowering costs, growing the economy, creating jobs, and expanding the social safety net.
- Advocate for popular economic policies (e.g., expanding prescription drug price negotiation, making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour) rather than unpopular economic policies (e.g., student loan forgiveness, electric vehicle subsidies, Medicare for All).
- Convince voters that we share their priorities by focusing more on issues voters do not think our party prioritizes highly enough (the economy, the cost of living, health care, border security, public safety), and focusing less on issues voters think we place too much emphasis on (climate change, democracy, abortion, identity and cultural issues).
- Moderate our positions where our agenda is unpopular, including on issues like immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues.
- Embrace a substantive and rhetorical critique of the outsized political and economic influence of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, while keeping two considerations in mind: First, voters' frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism. And second, criticizing the status quo is a complement to advocating for popular policies on the issues that matter most to the American people, not a substitute.
https://decidingtowin.org/
