With Tuesday’s primaries reinforcing the strength of the Republican establishment, House Democrats are reassessing their electoral strategy based on a major internal research project that shows their candidates stand a better chance when they portray Republicans as unsympathetic to the economic situation of working Americans while protecting the wealthy.
The research, initiated to help the party find a way to spur midterm turnout, also found that calls for an increase in the minimum wage — a top recent priority of Congressional Democrats and the White House — is not by itself enough to motivate swing voters to go to the polls and back Democrats in the fall. CONT.
Carl Hulse, New York Times