Democrats Could Be Overthinking Their Strategy Or Something

I wasn’t aware that they had any strategy other than Orange Man Bad with a side of Republicans Are Evil

Democrats might be ‘overthinking’ strategy to recapture voters

Democrats are rethinking ways to recapture voters they’ve lost to President Trump in recent election cycles, and they may have been offered an important lesson in the New York mayoral primary.

In various post-mortems and focus groups done on the heels of their devastating 2024 election loss, Democrats have thoroughly examined exit polls and voter demographics in search of the gaps in their party’s appeal.

But Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, who served as a senior adviser on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2020, said Democrats are “overthinking” the solution by analyzing the voters who flipped sides or skipped voting during the last election.

“It’s more simple than that,” Rocha said. “Just concentrate on people who are frustrated as hell and get both of them.”

Rocha pointed to the New York mayoral race as proof. He says progressive upstart-turned-party nominee Zohran Mamdani (D) was able to capture voters — including those who did not vote a few months ago in the presidential election — by talking about affordability and other tangible economic issues that appealed to them.

Rocha said voters “want anything that’s different” from the status quo when it comes to the cost of living.

If they want to settle on a hardcore Islamist Extremist and full on Jew hater masquerading as a hardcore Modern Socialist, have at it. Mamdandi won with around 20% turnout in a closed primary with ranked choice to Andrew Freaking Cuomo, and it was really the Youts who truly do not know better that drove the win. Youts that saw a crappy economy post-COVID, with Biden in the White House, and Democrats in charge of NY and NYC.

While many Democrats disagree with Mamdani’s politics, they say the campaign he ran shows the unwavering preeminence of economic issues. And Trump taught the same lesson in 2024, political observers say, by telling voters what they wanted to hear on the economy and his message on “draining the swamp.”

Trump campaigned on freedom and capitalism, Mamdani campaigned on Government giving people everything and being in charge of their lives. With zero idea how to do it.

But the New York City electorate is drastically different from the rest of the country, political observers say, noting someone like Mamdani may not appeal to moderates and centrists.

“Being a self-proclaimed democratic socialist … doesn’t play in swing districts. It plays in New York City primaries,” Del Percio said. “The Democratic candidates have to look more like Elissa Slotkin talking about the cost of living than they do Mamdani talking about the cost of living.”

Gee, you think? Why is NYC so unaffordable? Who has been and is now in charge of NYC? Really, if they want to go full on Modern Socialist for the 2026 midterms and 2028 general, this should be fun. Trump won’t be running in 2028, but, they’ll still run against him. If they want to run on Big Government in charge, that will be fun to watch.

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