Middle Class Advocate will win Presidency in 2008

[SeaNap05]

The candidate that can speak for 210 million people that make up the middle class/working class in the U.S., will become the next President of the U.S. A candidate who can speak about real middle class issues such as tax cuts and assisting their children in going to college will be the candidate to beat. The war in Iraq and other global issues are no doubt going to be major issues. However, the middle class buys the most milk, goes out to eat the most, and buys new electronics and cars. They are the breadwinners to the American economy. In addition, the middle class has been ignored through deficit spending and lack attention toward this economic class standard of living. It will be interesting to see who emerges, from either party.

[villager]

1. good post on the junta's view of the middle class here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=308x354

[Jamison]

2. Only way this will happen will be if...

we can get the middle class NOT to vote against their best interests (GOP). The sad state of the economy & labor should be one of our top points to attack the Republicans on in 2008.

[MichiganVote]

3. Agree, but will the Dem's get it?????

[SeaNap05]

4. They will soon......

John Edwards gets it, but is he not damage goods from 2004? He may emerge as an advocate for the middle class, maybe not as a front running candidate. It will happen soon, I'm sure some one speak in word that the middle class can understand.

[MichiganVote]

5. Edwards, Gore, Kerry, are done. People don't want to see that

but let's face facts, Americans only pay for strong winners. Kucinich, Clark, Clinton...same thing.

Americans want a Mark Twain/Huck Finn in a world where to get a "job" you have to put out the equivalent of the national budget of a small country. That in itself is unrealistic.

We're going to get another war hawk, at least that's what I think today.

[PBass]

6. A candidate who appeals to peoples' hopes...

can win.

I read this the other day at DU: If you're explaining, you're losing. This sums up the campaigning problems with Gore and Kerry... people do not want a candidate who floods their brain with facts and figures. They want a bumper sticker candidate that makes them feel good about themselves. We at DU are political junkies, we LOVE it when Gore lays out the facts and shows he understands an issue. We LOVE it when Kerry explains both sides of an issue and explains why he might lean one way and not another. For most people that is just too much information... they don't want to feel like they are going to be quizzed on the issues later, they want somebody to tell them they are going to act like Dad and take care of everything. If you are explaining, you're losing.

Another thing, we enjoy hearing someone rail against the administration, and feel like it's justified and overdue. But many people feel like criticizing the president is the same as criticizing America. They won't vote for a candidate that doesn't make them feel good about America. Democrats have to find a way to appeal to that urge (which is tough when the country is facing so many problems).

This is all my amateur opinion, of course.

Democrats need to run on a POSITIVE MESSAGE and run a campaign of POSITIVE IDEAS that (ideally) don't even reference the GOP whatsoever. "Kick out the GOP" is not going to cut it, at the polls. That's the background, that's the subtext, that shouldn't be the message. "Things are bad in America" is going to fall a little short because voters want to vote for someone that makes them feel good. A "MORNING IN AMERICA" or "Contract with America" or "CALL TO SERVICE" type of angle is what is called for. Of course all those same (deep, detailed) policy ideas that a Gore or Kerry would bring, are still there... but not at the 'top level' of public perception during the campaign.

My 2 cents.

[MichiganVote]

7. Not just hope's. NEEDS! We need the damn chickens in every pot again

[PBass]

8. Touché. Good point. (eom)

[politicasista]

9. Respectfully disagree. All of those men are capable n/t