{"id":548840,"date":"2023-02-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-with-voters-despite-accomplishments\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:00:00","slug":"democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-with-voters-despite-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-with-voters-despite-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democrats have a \u2018messaging problem\u2019 with voters, despite accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d0f4dae7d7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d0f4dae7d7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-with-voters-despite-accomplishments\/#Democrats_have_a_%E2%80%98messaging_problem_with_voters_despite_accomplishments\" >Democrats have a \u2018messaging problem\u2019 with voters, despite accomplishments<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-with-voters-despite-accomplishments\/#Infrastructure_insulin_cap_%E2%80%98havent_started_yet\" >Infrastructure, insulin cap \u2018haven\u2019t started yet\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-have-a-messaging-problem-with-voters-despite-accomplishments\/#Biden_needs_%E2%80%98cheerleaders\" >Biden needs \u2018cheerleaders\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Democrats_have_a_%E2%80%98messaging_problem_with_voters_despite_accomplishments\"><\/span>Democrats have a \u2018messaging problem\u2019 with voters, despite accomplishments<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Biden-feb-6.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Democrats are having trouble getting their message across to voters heading into the 2024 election cycle, when they will have to defend 23 seats. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0say they plan to run on their accomplishments in the last Congress. But\u00a0that may be a problem:\u00a0A large majority of voters across the country say\u00a0President Biden hasn\u2019t\u00a0gotten a lot done. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A\u00a0Washington Post-ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> poll published on Monday found that 62 percent of Americans don\u2019t think Biden has accomplished much during his first two years in office. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite passing a major infrastructure investment law in 2021 and pre<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion drug reform in the Inflation Reduction Act last year, only 32 percent of Americans said Biden made progress improving roads and bridges in their communities and only 30 percent said he made progress lowering prescription drug costs. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first reaction is the Democrats have a messaging problem,\u201d said Ross K. Baker, a professor of political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at Rutgers University who has served several times as a Senate fellow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly the consistent message has been the Schumer message that the accomplishments of the Biden administration are really unprecedented, practically back to the time of the New Deal,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is objectively an impressive list, but somehow the public seems to be rejecting that message perhaps because subjectively they\u2019re not seeing the results.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The disconnect between the Democratic message and voters across the country could make it tougher for Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to persuade incumbents such as Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to run for new terms in Republican-leaning states. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It could also make it tougher for vulnerable incumbents such as Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) to run on their legislative accomplishments when Republicans are expected to hit them again on topics like inflation and cultural issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Monday\u2019s Washington Post-ABC News poll found that only 32 percent of independents nationwide think Biden has accomplished a great deal or a good amount while 66 percent said he accomplished not much, little or nothing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats are putting a more positive spin on the poll, arguing that it shows how much ground they can gain with voters by implementing the bills that Biden signed into law and explaining them to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aides say Biden will do that on Tuesday evening\u00a0in\u00a0his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, when he will highlight the key bills passed since he took office.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Schumer has compared Biden\u2019s first two years in office to President Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society and President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal programs. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two years in the Senate and House, in the Congress, was either the most productive in 50 years \u2014 Great Society \u2014 or the most productive in 100 years since the New Deal. So I think it\u2019s been extremely, extremely productive,\u201d he told reporters at the end of 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Infrastructure_insulin_cap_%E2%80%98havent_started_yet\"><\/span>Infrastructure, insulin cap \u2018haven\u2019t started yet\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Democratic strategists say their party faces several messaging challenges over the next 21 months: The investments and reforms that Biden signed into law in the 117th\u00a0Congress will take years to implement, the president himself is not a very compelling salesman and the bills that Biden signed into law will be overshadowed by Washington\u2019s looming political dramas over the debt ceiling and other issues.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Robert Borosage, a progressive activist and co-founder of Campaign for America\u2019s Future, said \u201cthe big thing is the big agenda things that Democrats passed haven\u2019t started yet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising that people don\u2019t feel that these policies have affected them yet because they\u2019re just being put in effect,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, a key element of the Inflation Reduction Act, a $35 dollar-a-month cap on insulin, just went into effect on Jan. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Borosage said that inflation and the high cost of everyday goods is giving people a more negative view of the economy than it deserves.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post-ABC News poll found that only 34 percent of Americans said Biden has made progress creating good jobs in their community, even though the president on Friday touted the creation of 12 million jobs since he took office in 2021.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The economy created 517,000 new jobs last month alone.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Jonathan Kott, a Democratic strategist and former Senate aide, said voters \u201cwill start feeling the impacts\u201d of the laws passed in the next Congress before the 2024 elections, such as investments to expand access to high-speed internet and clean drinking water. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may not think the infrastructure bill and the IRA are hugely important but when you have clean water and internet access and then you start seeing, \u2018Oh right, this is what the Democrats did,\u2019 then it will start to seep in. I think part of it is letting the laws take effect and then explaining, \u2018Hey, we did that,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biden_needs_%E2%80%98cheerleaders\"><\/span>Biden needs \u2018cheerleaders\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But Kott acknowledged that Biden is not a natural salesman who likes to toot his own horn as much as past presidents, which makes it somewhat tougher to tout his accomplishments. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden, he\u2019s not the type of guy who goes out and brags about his accomplishments, that\u2019s just not who he is. Joe Biden is just a boring get-the-job-done kind of guy. That\u2019s who he is. And he\u2019s the type of Democrat that I think a lot of the moderates like because that\u2019s who he is,\u201d he said. \u201cHe just sort of puts his head down, finds the solution to a problem and accomplishes it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might need some more cheerleaders out there, and that\u2019s where I think the rest of the administration and outside groups like the AFL-CIO come in and brag on his behalf,\u201d he added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democratic aides say there is also frustration among lawmakers with the fleeting attention the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> pays to their\u00a0legislative\u00a0accomplishments, as\u00a0news<strong> <\/strong>cycle coverage quickly moves to new topics, such as Biden\u2019s handling of classified information, the Chinese surveillance balloon and the partisan battle over raising the debt limit. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schumer at one point chastised the media for mostly ignoring the Ocean Shipping Reform Act that Biden signed into law in June to speed up the supply chain and fight inflation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few months after Congress passed the bill, the price of shipping a container over the ocean dropped 60 percent, one Democratic aide noted. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A second Democratic aide said the White House is aware of Biden\u2019s problems getting his record of accomplishment across to voters and plans to deploy the president aggressively over the coming months to hammer home his message. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden appeared with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) at the Brent Spence Bridge in Covington, Ky., last month to highlight funding for it in the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill. Biden visited a deteriorating rail tunnel in Baltimore a few weeks later to talk about $4 billion in federal funding being invested to keep trains running smoothly between Washington and Philadelphia. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The president and Schumer visited the Long Island Railroad west side train yard last week to promote $292 million in grants from the bipartisan infrastructure bill to rebuild the rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Biden\u2019s actually doing a better job of staying on message. I think the White House understands the disconnect with voters in a way the Obama [administration] didn\u2019t, which is why I think you saw the Brent Spence Bridge event,\u201d said the second aide. \u201cI think they recognize the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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