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Dem Pollster Says Party Loses Due to Lack of 'Conviction'
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
May 27, 2005
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"The Democrats are not seen as reformers. They are not trying to stop lobbying. They are not the ones leading campaign finance reform. The Democrats need to be reformers and they need to be clear about their ideas and battling the special interests and corporate interests that control Washington," Greenberg said.
He added that Democrats suffered at the polls during the 2002 mid-term elections because they offered only a "minimalist agenda" and were "not unified to oppose Bush's agenda."
The 2004 presidential race came down to a "personal choice between George Bush and John Kerry, [in] which [Republicans] were able to portray [Kerry] as irresolute, weak, flip-flopper, not able to stand up for America, lacking principles," Greenberg said.
Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway praised Greenberg's analysis regarding the Democrats' lack of conviction.
"He's right, I second that emotion," Conway told Cybercast News Service. "Rather than trying to inflict revisionist history, Greenberg is reading the election results most cogently," Conway said.
"They (the Democrats) got beat, and they got beat because the other team had a more clear message and a more well-stocked arsenal of messengers," she added.
Conway, president and CEO of The Polling Company, predicted that the Democrats will not have much success at the polls until they realize that "the feminist movement is a relic of the 70s and the environmentalists are seen as fringe lunatics by and large."
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