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Originally posted by Spanky
For the Democrats, they have to stop appealing to the Unions mainly because it alienates the environmental lobby. The environmental lobby is growing all the time and the Unions are getting smaller. The other thing thing that is blowing up in their face is the US image abroad line of argument. Studys have shown that politicians who focus on the worlds ire at the US lose points. This really killed Kerry in the election. This also killed the Global Warming thing. The Democrats have learned the Global Warming argument should be couched in terms of that it is good for the world. When they focused on the fact that the rest of the world was for Kyoto, that made Americans like it less. Most American voters like to think of America as the lone country that sticks to what is right while the rest of the world waffles. I have seen this in focus groups, where the majority of the people in the group support an issue, until you say that the majority of the world takes this position, and then everyone in the group starts changing their mind. After seeing those focus groups I now know why we are the only country that doens't use the metric system and likes Soccer.
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The problem with the former point is that the Dems take the environmentalists for granted (with good reason, but still) while they got it in their head sometime ago that the unions were mostly socially conservative blue-collar roughnecks who would vote Repub if the selfish economic issues were a wash.
