(Above – “Where’d you get this poll?”)
“Top Democrats are circulating a poll showing that one of the House’s most progressive members — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — has become a definitional face for the party with a crucial group of swing voters.
Why it matters: These Democrats are sounding the alarm that swing voters know and dislike socialism, warning it could cost them the House and the presidency. The poll is making the rounds of some of the most influential Democrats in America.
- “If all voters hear about is AOC, it could put the [House] majority at risk,” said a top Democrat who is involved in 2020 congressional races. “[S]he’s getting all the news and defining everyone else’s races.”
The poll — taken in May, before Speaker Pelosi’s latest run-in with AOC and the three other liberal House freshmen known as “The Squad” — included 1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education.
- These are the “white, non-college voters” who embraced Donald Trump in 2016 but are needed by Democrats in swing House districts.”
I haven’t seen the full demographic/location breakdown of that internal Dem poll, but it apparently only polled white non-college voters – who have been going GOP by 15+ points for the past decade.
Not sure why they’re called “swing voters” by whoever leaked the poll to @Axios. pic.twitter.com/Yp7qO1G1Bd
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 15, 2019
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Nonsense! I am an old white woman and I love AOC and I hope that i live long enough to vote for her for president. The DNC hates her and all progressive law makers and candidates because the Democrat Party must keep their VIP donors happy.
Bahh, the corporate Dems are quivering as they should be.
Great democrats worried about not getting the dumb racist vote – what a party.