Peter Feld 🍉: Voters will never see it that way. Campaign messages based on political process always fall flat, persuadable/low-turnout voters do everything they can to avoid info about process. If Biden makes the campaign about democracy instead of tangibles, he will lose decisively and democracy will die.

In six swing states that Biden narrowly won in 2020, a little more than half of voters classified as likely to decide the presidential election say threats to democracy are extremely important to their vote for president, according to a poll.

Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voterswapo.st A poll of swing-state voters shows that Americans rate threats to democracy as an important issue, but that the president has yet to convince them he is the one to defend it.

anyone who thinks you can win an election on "defending democracy" is an imbecile

I mean, if you want more elections, preserving democracy is pretty much job #1.

Agree but it's not a voting issue, it won't persuade or mobilize any voters. Voters only care about things that touch their daily lives. To save democracy, Biden should have done total student loan forgiveness (not targeted 9%), minimum wage, paid family leave, child tax credit, Medicare expansion.

Without a democracy, nothing else will matter. So democracy is number one issue, everything is second.

Voters will never see it that way. Campaign messages based on political process always fall flat, persuadable/low-turnout voters do everything they can to avoid info about process. If Biden makes the campaign about democracy instead of tangibles, he will lose decisively and democracy will die.

I disagree abortion only affects small portion of women population but it’s important issue for many women

Abortion is an important and tangible issue that affects many more people than just ones who actually get abortions. "Saving democracy" is very different, it's a political process issue of the kind that persuadable and low-turnout voters do everything humanly possible to never think about.

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