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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave You Read the 2016 Democratic Party Platform?
Bueller? Beuller? Anyone?
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/papers_pdf/117717.pdf
There's a lot of talk about goals here, but few seem to realize that the platform adopted at our 2016 Democratic Party Convention pretty much calls for the same things people claim they want.
That makes me think that most people didn't actually read that platform. Maybe they should. You'll find it at that link. It's a good read. We're all working toward the same goals, folks.
Let's work together toward them, shall we?
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)so everyone could actually find it easily and read it. It's a pdf, so it's easy to print, too. It's fairly long.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)It is here somewhere with my national convention materials
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)I'm envious, but simply can't afford the trip, so I've never pushed to become a delegate above the state convention level.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)My youngest was my guest and she had fun at the convention area and had a guest pass for the first night
ismnotwasm
(41,977 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)didn't read it, base on what they say here.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)chowder66
(9,067 posts)encapsulate our platform, get talking points from them to sprinkle in interviews and press conferences, etc.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)tl;dr is not an excuse for not knowing what our party's platform said and claiming what you want wasn't in it. Too many people are doing just that.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)it seems that you have to pound the message into the atmosphere for people to even start the process of thinking.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)...
The analysis indicates that substantive policy issues have received only a small amount of attention so far in the 2016 election coverage. To be sure, the wall has been in and out of the news since Donald Trump vowed to build it. Other issues like ISIS and free trade have popped up here or there as well. But in the overall context of election coverage, issues have played second fiddle. They were at the forefront in the halls of the national conventions but not in the forefront of convention-period news coverage. Not a single policy proposal accounted for even 1 percent of Hillary Clintons convention-period coverage and, collectively, her policy stands accounted for a mere 4 percent of it.
Trumps policies got more attention, but not until after the Democratic convention, when he made headlines several days running for his testy exchange with the parents of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier.
That exchange sparked a controversy, which is sure to catch reporters attention. Weve seen that time and again this election year. Past elections were not much different, featuring everything from Jimmy Carters lust in my heart Playboy interview in 1976 to Mitt Romneys 47 percent statement in 2012. None of these controversies was predictive of anything that happened in the presidency during the subsequent four years, but their coverage during the campaign overshadowed nearly every policy proposal put forth by the candidates.
Medialities is the label political scientist Michael Robinson has given to such controversies. Journalists find them irresistible, as political scientist W. Lance Bennett noted when looking at Trumps birther claims. When Trump in 2011 questioned whether President Obama was a native-born American, his statement was seized upon by cable outlets and stayed in the headlines and on newscasts for days.
http://theconversation.com/harvard-study-policy-issues-nearly-absent-in-presidential-campaign-coverage-65731
Trump was great at seizing the media spotlight, and thus encouraging the people who leaned towards him to turn out. The media couldn't sell so many ads with coverage of policy, so they ran with the circus instead.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)drray23
(7,627 posts)I was about to do the same after I saw a post a few hours ago listing what we should include in our platform. I thought, wait is not it what we already had ? Sure enough, went to Hillary Clinton's website and it was all listed there with minor variations one way or another.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)People really misunderstood in 2016. More's the pity.
Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)The public option and Medicare 55 and over needs to be changed to Medicare for All.