{"id":1782695,"date":"2022-12-21T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782695"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:48:55","slug":"john-nantz-in-the-beginning-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-nantz-in-the-beginning-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"John Nantz: In the Beginning \u2014 Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fjohn-nantz-in-the-beginning-christmas%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=1782695&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/100-10-69\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans<\/a><br \/>\n&#8216; <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">l<\/span>ack of a coherent message was the primary reason for the party&#8217;s underwhelming<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">midterm election<\/a><br \/>\n performance, a report from the<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/conservative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative<\/a><br \/>\n Heritage Action\/Sentinel Action Fund has concluded.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a presentation titled &#8220;The Seinfeld Election: An Election About Nothing,&#8221; Republican pollster Wes Anderson gave a postmortem of the Republican efforts in the midterm elections. The overarching problem that plagued Republicans, Anderson said, was a lack of a coherent message \u2014 something the<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a><br \/>\n managed readily. A failure to combat Democrats&#8217; abortion messaging, a lack of resources, and the related loss of independents all helped lead to midterm results that sent shock waves throughout the GOP, he found.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/stacey-abrams-campaign-debt-brian-kemp-georgia-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STACEY ABRAMS CAMPAIGN MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN DEBT<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>When Heritage Action asked voters what they thought the main campaign message from each party was, the Democrats were found to have a much more coherent message. Of those surveyed about the Democrats&#8217; main message, 37% said it was abortion rights, 30% said threats to democracy, and 14% didn&#8217;t know. Meanwhile, 21% of respondents said they didn&#8217;t know what the Republicans&#8217; main message was, including 27% of independents, a percentage that outmatched every other response. The other leading responses of spending\/inflation, standing up to Biden, and border\/immigration didn&#8217;t manage to reach even 25%.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What was the main message from Republicans? &#8216;I have no idea&#8217; was our No. 1 response,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;What was missing from our side was &#8230; a plan, a vision.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Democrats&#8217; greatest strength, which likely helped flip several states, was their<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a><br \/>\n messaging. Heritage found that the Democrats outspend Republicans on abortion messaging by 45x \u2014 $450 million as opposed to just $10 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anderson argued that<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pro-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-abortion<\/a><br \/>\n positions aren&#8217;t actually unpopular. He said the most extreme anti-abortion position, banning all abortions without exceptions, is equally as unpopular as the most extreme pro-abortion rights position, allowing unrestricted abortions.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two ends of the spectrum on abortion are about equally unpopular,&#8221; he said but added that the Democrats&#8217; near monopoly on abortion messaging allowed them to portray themselves as having the moderate position while casting all Republicans as extremists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>The strategy appears to have worked well, with 61% of respondents saying abortion was the most important issue. Of those, 58% voted Democrat, as opposed to just 38% who voted Republican. Abortion was also the only issue on which those polled answered that they trusted Democrats more than Republicans.\n<\/p>\n<p>Though laughing at Democrats&#8217; concerns over threats to democracy, Anderson said Republicans &#8220;probably should&#8217;ve paid more attention to that.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> as to his thoughts about a<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/winning-message-democrats-happy-advertising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">key finding<\/a><br \/>\n from the <i>Cook Political Report<\/i>, which stipulated that a lack of positive messaging on the part of Republicans was a key factor in determining the midterm elections, Anderson said he partially agreed, with a catch.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m cautious. It didn&#8217;t have to be pure positive; you could&#8217;ve done it in contrast. But we didn&#8217;t even do that,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;You still have to offer a vision, and in our case, we didn&#8217;t.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The one positive finding from the report was that, for the first time ever, a majority of Hispanics voted for Republicans, 51%, as opposed to 43% who voted for Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans &#8216; lack of a coherent message was the primary reason for the party&#8217;s underwhelming midterm election performance, a report from the conservative Heritage Action\/Sentinel Action Fund has concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,10865,5458,6922,4475,10866,3819,3618],"class_list":["post-1782695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-beginning","tag-bongino","tag-christmas","tag-john","tag-nantz","tag-report","tag-riot"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}