Can dedicated anti-gunners like Spartacus, Fauxcahontas, Creepy Uncle Joe, Kama Sutra Harris, Crazy Bernie and Tracy Flick convince middle-of-America deplorables to vote for them? There’s no consensus on whether rural success for Democrats is about policy or personality or some combination. Some winners establish a personal brand at odds with the national party — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin […]
The Clinton assault weapons ban booted a lot of Democrats out of office. As a result, they mostly stayed away from gun control for a generation. That’s not the case any more. While the “blue dogs” centered in rural districts provided the core internal Democratic resistance to gun control in earlier years, advocates are confident […]
“As far as the Democrats are relevant to the US political debate these days, they have largely focused on relatively “fringe” issues that many millennials don’t care much about. For example, millennials seem much less concerned about Russian meddling in US elections than the rest of the Democratic party elite. Even the newest golden issue, […]
“The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year. But the key to effective crime control remains, in my judgment, effective gun control. And those of us who are […]
“The Democrats are way overplaying their hand. If you think you’re going to run on gun control and win in this country, you’re out of your mind.” – Political Media Inc. president Larry Ward in Gun control support fades three months after Florida massacre: Reuters/Ipsos poll [via reuters.com]
