Have Democrats Decided That Running On Gun Control is a Bad Electoral Strategy?

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Have Democrats Decided That Running On Gun Control is a Bad Electoral Strategy?
It appears that Democrats have adopted the Behar approach to electoral success.

“Even in a Democratic presidential primary, every candidate who campaigned primarily on extreme gun ban platforms has been rejected,” Catherine Mortensen, an NRA spokesperson, told the Free Beacon. “While the remaining candidates and their media allies may try and sweep this issue under the rug, rest assured the NRA knows that they share those same out-of-the-mainstream views and we will appropriately inform all voters.”


A Free Beacon review of cable news interviews confirmed that mentions of gun control have declined. In the time between former candidate Beto O’Rourke’s pivot to gun confiscation and the end of his campaign, the terms “gun control” and “gun safety” were mentioned an average of 19 times per day. In the time between the end of O’Rourke’s campaign and the November Democratic debate, they were only mentioned seven times per day on average.
The nearly three-fold drop in discussion of the gun issue on cable news coincides with a drop in candidates mentioning it during interviews.

Have Democrats Decided That Running On Gun Control is a Bad Electoral Strategy? - The Truth About Guns

It appears that Democrats have adopted the Behar approach to electoral success. “Even in a Democratic presidential primary, every candidate who campaigned primarily on extreme gun ban platforms has been rejected,” Catherine Mortensen, an NRA spokesperson, told the Free Beacon. “While the...

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[gunpoliticsny]

No, they haven't. Bloomberg is making a big gun control announcement today.

 

[kev74]

I'm convinced Robert Francis did a huge disservice to his party by shoving gun control to the front and center. Fortunately for us, the rest of the dem candidates mistakenly though they were competing to go fullest retard instead of trying to appeal to voters, and followed along trying to out do Bobby. They weakened and handicapped (if not crippled) the whole Democratic party because they forgot what they were supposed to be working toward.

We're very lucky they did.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Bullshit. They'll lie, maneuver and mislead until they're in office then BOHICA.

 

[Saltwater60]

Fuck them all.

 

[Acer-m14]

nope .. the Democrats want to turn this land into a 3rd world country ..

 

[repete]

No, they haven't. Bloomberg is making a big gun control announcement today.

But he can't see the real world because of that pile of money he has, sooner or later the pile will dwindle or he'll get a stepladder and the real world will be revealed to him, hopefully that will be next November!
FUAC and bloomburger

 

[Twogunwilly]

They should have learned that lesson in '94 but alas, they are too stupid to learn.