House Democrats chart path back to majority

[mystery-ak]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/house-democrats-2016-election-majority-117453.html?hp=l7_4


House Democrats chart path back to majority

By Lauren French

4/28/15 9:35 PM EDT

House Democrats are crafting an election-year message that leaders hope will reverse years of seat loses and help lawmakers connect with independent voters.

At a four-hour session at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, 16 House lawmakers on the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee strategized Tuesday as to how to improve their party’s chances of winning back the House.

“You can’t just stick a message in an oven, turn it up to 450 degrees and produce a message. It has to be driven by consensus and it has to be driven by empirical data,” Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said. “What runs through all of the polling and all of the intuition is that voters sense that the economy is changing and they want a political party that has solutions to ensure that they are ready for those changes.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/house-democrats-2016-election-majority-117453.html#ixzz3YhfMfI62

[truth_seeker]

GOP = tied to declining demographics.

Dem = tied to increasing demographics.

[Fishrrman]

Clear and concise, truth_seeker.

It's demographics.

Reminds me of a Star Trek tv episode about "M4" (or was it "M5"?), a powerful robot that threatened to destroy the Enterprise from within. There's an exchange of dialogue between Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock:
"It's a machine, Spock! You can't argue with a machine!"

And so it goes with demographics.
You can't argue with them.
They are what they are.
And therein lies "our future".

Oh, we could have "controlled the demographics" -- just as we once did, up until the end of the 1950's.
Doing THAT would have determined our future, too.

But ... we didn't.
We gave that up, and in doing so, gave up on our future.

Another quote, this one from old Will:
"The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves" ....

[Longiron]

Why! They still control both Houses? 

[Right_in_Virginia]

GOP = tied to declining demographics.  Dem = tied to increasing demographics. 

Is there no message or vision that can overcome the certain defeat your post predicts?