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Showing Original Post only (View all)"For the first time in the poll's history, congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters" [View all]
In 2023 Democrats in Congress were +54 with Democrats. Now, two years later, they are -9.
Waiting for the Schumer debacle to blow over and playing business-as-usual isn't flying with the base, nor should it.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/21/polling-data-democrats-primaries-grassroots-tea-party-00241769
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"For the first time in the poll's history, congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters" [View all]
HereForTheParty
Mar 2025
OP
And then there is the "The party needs less Bernies and more Schumers" crowd
LiberalArkie
Mar 2025
#1
What are you talking about? It was the voters who "kept Bernie out of the presidency", not the Democratic Party.
lapucelle
Mar 2025
#33
Really stuck in the 60's with the emerging liberalism that the nation gung ho for until it wasn't
LiberalArkie
Mar 2025
#4
I am done here for the time being. Democrats are so good at attacking their own and fighting among themselves. Going
JohnSJ
Mar 2025
#5
Bernie Sanders said the left should run as third party...oh yeah that would help not!
Demsrule86
Mar 2025
#16
I know. There are folks who refuse to believe that he said it on the record to the NYT.
lapucelle
Mar 2025
#18
Did you read the story you linked to or the Gallup poll it cited? "45% wanted the Party to become more moderate".
lapucelle
Mar 2025
#7
Ah yes, the fallacy of false alternative used in support of the fallacy of equivocation.
lapucelle
Mar 2025
#27