{"id":1214636,"date":"2022-01-13T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214636"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:04:28","slug":"moderate-focus-groups-have-no-reaction-to-january-6-say-democrats-over-embellished-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/moderate-focus-groups-have-no-reaction-to-january-6-say-democrats-over-embellished-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Focus Groups Have No Reaction To \u2018January 6,\u2019 Say Democrats \u2018Over-Embellished\u2019 Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmoderate-focus-groups-have-no-reaction-to-january-6-say-democrats-over-embellished-anniversary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214636&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>McClatchy DC White House correspondent Alex Roarty said that even in the days following the anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot, a focus group of moderate voters had no real reaction to the mention of \u201cJanuary 6th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatched 2 focus groups w\/moderate voters last night, put on by a liberal group. Moderator asked 1st group (five women) about Jan 6th. Long pause followed, before one of the women asked what he meant. Invoking \u2018Jan. 6\u2019 didn\u2019t immediately mean anything, even days after anniversary,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Roarty\/status\/1480938114528993283\">Roarty<\/a> began a Twitter thread on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>According to Roarty, some clarification and even direct questions about the riot did not steer the female focus group in a direction that was more favorable for Democrats \u2014 in fact, it led to several in the group criticizing Democrats for taking the pageantry too far as they commemorated the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/qanon-shaman-sentenced-to-41-months-in-prison-over-capitol-riot\/\">anniversary<\/a> of the attack with a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/nancy-pelosis-january-6-grief-session-brings-broadway-tunes-equity-and-a-rewrite-of-americas-ideals\/\">Broadway performance<\/a>, a candlelight vigil, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/588592-pelosi-leads-moment-of-silence-for-jan-6-with-no-republicans-except-cheneys\">moment of silence<\/a> on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conversation didn\u2019t get much better from there for Dems, in either focus group,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Roarty\/status\/1480939096679849986\">Roarty explained<\/a>. \u201cOnce the convo got going, it was clear Jan. 6 hadn\u2019t been memory holed by the 1st group. But one woman said flat out it wasn\u2019t she was worried about anymore compared to other concerns. And two others, after agreeing how awful the attack was, said they thought Biden and Democrats had gone too far in the way they talked about last week on the anniversary. One of the women said she thought they had over-embellished it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second focus group, consisting of moderate men, appeared to yield similarly disappointing results as far as Democrats were concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2nd group, this time five moderate men, had a similar reaction (though I\u2019ll include one important caveat later). None of them mentioned Jan 6 when prompted broadly about what news they had been paying attention to lately, mentioning Manchin, Arbery verdict, etc,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Roarty\/status\/1480939612444975107\">Roarty<\/a> noted, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Roarty\/status\/1480940174007799810\">adding<\/a>, \u201cLater, when asked specifically about how POTUS and Dems marked the anniversary, two men jumped in pretty eagerly to talk about how Biden had made a mistake looking backward instead of trying to move the country forward. They expressed a feeling he had politicized a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the participants would later add that they also resented how reporters who were there personalized their experience,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Roarty said that the consensus at the end was that the riot had been terrible and had certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Roarty\/status\/1480940687432601607\">raised concerns<\/a> about the future of American democracy \u2014 and several agreed that President Biden\u2019s speech recognizing the anniversary had been appropriate \u2014 and both groups voiced concern that the people responsible for the attack on the Capitol had not yet been held responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne man \u2014 who was clearly very far from a liberal \u2014 said he abandoned the GOP after Jan 6 and thought the way Biden handled the anniversary was fine,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alex_Roarty\/status\/1480941095487954944\">he added<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cSo people thought what happened on Jan 6 was awful and raised serious questions about the country\u2019s direction. But they didn\u2019t all necessarily connect it with the GOP\/Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both groups, Roarty said, consisted of \u201csoft Biden voters\u201d who had supported Joe Biden but not former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton \u2014 or \u201csoft Trump voters\u201d who had supported former President Donald Trump in 2020 but said they regretted doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy DC White House correspondent Alex Roarty said that even in the days following the anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot, a focus group of moderate voters had no real reaction to the mention of \u201cJanuary 6th.\u201d \u201cWatched 2 focus groups w\/moderate voters last night, put on by a liberal group. 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