jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘- Both parties have branding problems.
Many voters studied in these “Factory Towns” are “deeply, profoundly cynical” about both political parties… with swing voters holding the impression that both Democrats and Republicans are “too extreme.”
The sharpest argument against Republicans, the polling found, was that “they are on the side of corporations and C.E.O.s and they work for the wealthy.”
Democrats, meantime, are seen as “as weak and ineffective, especially when it comes to economics”’