How Much Do Democrats Need to Change?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "I can count on my hand the times where I heard people say, 'Well, hopefully So-and-So gets elected and then this will change,' " he told me.
56% : Some of the newly elected spoke about what they hope to deliver: affordable housing, broadband, clean energy, and more money for public schools.
51% : That said, Wisconsin's voter turnout was the highest in the country, at nearly seventy-seven per cent, and Harris received thirty-eight thousand more votes than Biden did four years ago, only to lose to Trump by twenty-nine thousand.
49% : She lost by three points, but in a mostly rural region where Trump scored his biggest gains in the state, she fared considerably better than Harris.
46% : When he heard voters talking about hard times, he told them that he favored holding down middle-class taxes, expanding Medicaid, raising the seven-dollar-and-twenty-five-cent minimum wage, and supporting child-care providers.
30% : Looked at another way: Donald Trump won the national popular vote, but if one hundred and fifteen thousand of the eight million Trump voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania had voted instead for Harris, she would be headed to the White House.
19% : The same is true in North Carolina, where Harris was defeated by Trump but Democrats swept the other six statewide races.
15% : In a state where five of the past seven Presidential elections have been decided by less than a percentage point, Krug does not see a big political swing coming, "unless there's some massive blowback of some sort against Donald Trump or a wave election.
11% : Though Kamala Harris lost her Presidential bid, the popular vote, and seven swing states to Donald Trump, the message -- even in Wisconsin, which Harris lost -- is not so straightforward.
11% : Spaude put it this way: "You had Harris not really offering a direct solution to people's pain, their top problem, and you had Trump who was peddling snake oil.

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