Democrats don’t understand what their problem is. I do. I think The Prowler does, too.
“We focus-grouped and tested the idea that Bush had failed miserably as a diplomat and most of our respondents agreed,” says a Democratic leadership aide. “It seemed like the perfect approach for us.” Apparently it wasn’t.
Quit applying marketing techniques to politics, boys. You’re way too poll-driven to see the forest for the trees.
[U]nspoken in all of this is that the Bush administration hasn’t been polling or focus grouping its Iraqi policy. “That the Democrats feel the need to poll on this just shows where their minds are,” says a Republican Senate leadership staffer. “You’d think they’d have learned a lesson from the Clinton White House on that.”
Indeed.