Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds

[Landon Caeli]

"The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.

The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party—the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view."

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021

 

[Landon Caeli]

What happened?

 

[Fantine]

I am a senior citizen who supports David Hogg, the 25 year-old who survived the Parkland shooting and has been unapologetically proclaiming that "thoughts and prayers" are cop-outs from people who value their toys over human life.
How could I not love such a patriot?

And I agree with my children is that the current Democrats in Congress are too old, timid, and compromising. (Being a senior, I do know that age can be a state of mind--look at Bernie Sanders--but many fit that description.) The DNC has been blocking all the young progressives by financially backing ineffective candidates.

And many young people have given up on voting. Do I feel like spanking them as I fight with all my septugenarian energy for a brighter future for them? Absolutely. But I support them.

Sure there are some impressionable, susceptible youth who are voting for Trump, mistakenly believing he will solve their problems.

But most youth are idealistic and filled with energy that needs to be channeled into creating a better world.

Why David Hogg (Almost) Gets It, and the DNC Still Doesn’t | Common Dreams

DNC Vice-Chair David Hogg is right to call out do-nothing Democrats but fails to articulate a bold, unapologetically populist vision that names the enemy.

www.commondreams.org

 

[Say it aint so]

As the GOP takes a flame thrower to Democracy, Democratic leaders are writing "strongly worded letters" in opposition.
That's one of the reasons why the Dems have an unfavorable view of their party.

 

[Landon Caeli]

As the GOP takes a flame thrower to Democracy, Democratic leaders are writing "strongly worded letters" in opposition.
That's one of the reasons why the Dems have an unfavorable view of their party.

But what the article is actually saying is that the American people, as a whole, prefer the way Republicans are handling *ALL* the issues that decide elections, with the exception of Healthcare.

So if the American people just plainly disagree with Democrat politics, in general, then having politicians act more outraged, won't actually change the political preferences of the American people.

 

[Landon Caeli]

I am a senior citizen who supports David Hogg, the 25 year-old who survived the Parkland shooting and has been unapologetically proclaiming that "thoughts and prayers" are cop-outs from people who value their toys over human life.
How could I not love such a patriot?

And I agree with my children is that the current Democrats in Congress are too old, timid, and compromising. (Being a senior, I do know that age can be a state of mind--look at Bernie Sanders--but many fit that description.) The DNC has been blocking all the young progressives by financially backing ineffective candidates.

And many young people have given up on voting. Do I feel like spanking them as I fight with all my septugenarian energy for a brighter future for them? Absolutely. But I support them.

Sure there are some impressionable, susceptible youth who are voting for Trump, mistakenly believing he will solve their problems.

But most youth are idealistic and filled with energy that needs to be channeled into creating a better world.

Why David Hogg (Almost) Gets It, and the DNC Still Doesn’t | Common Dreams

DNC Vice-Chair David Hogg is right to call out do-nothing Democrats but fails to articulate a bold, unapologetically populist vision that names the enemy.

www.commondreams.org

Are you suggesting the Democratic party adjust it's candidates to suit a voting block that's biased in regards to ageism?

Shouldn't it be the ideas that matter most, rather than "who"..? And if so, are you instead suggesting that the Democrat party come up with some fresh, new ideas?

Or is it the same old ideas with cool, young faces?

 

[Landon Caeli]

But I am here to help you in your time of need.

If the democrats hope to gain voters in the future, your only option is to adopt the few MAGA ideas you can bear to hold onto, and run with them as your own, thus stealing votes from the right... Find your biggest flaw areas (wokeness, outsourced jobs, open borders) and delete them to match what the Republican party is doing. Then you can regain the voters that have run away and abandoned you.

...You tried some things and they didn't work. That's okay!

 

[Landon Caeli]

...But what you can't do, is lie to the American people and say that you support certain ideas, and then do the opposite in regards to it. That will only make people angry.

Just embrace what the people want, and make it your own. Honestly.

 

[BCP1928]

But I am here to help you in your time of need.

If the democrats hope to gain voters in the future, your only option is to adopt the few MAGA ideas you can bear to hold onto, and run with them as your own, thus stealing votes from the right... Find your biggest flaw areas (wokeness, outsourced jobs, open borders) and delete them to match what the Republican party is doing. Then you can regain the voters that have run away and abandoned you.

...You tried some things and they didn't work. That's okay!

Is gaining votes really the only thing that matters?

 

[Landon Caeli]

Is gaining votes really the only thing that matters?

When such a large swath of voters abandon you, it might be wise to reevaluate the course you're on. Perhaps "listening" is more important than doubling down.

 

[Fantine]

Are you suggesting the Democratic party adjust it's candidates to suit a voting block that's biased in regards to ageism?

Shouldn't it be the ideas that matter most, rather than "who"..? And if sTio, are you instead suggesting that the Democrat party come up with some fresh, new ideas?

Or is it the same old ideas with cool, young faces?

I am suggesting that the DNC has primaried younger, more progressive candidates (along with progressive candidates of any age) because of timidity.

They have also prevented Jasmine Crockett from getting a committee chairmanship.

They are dealing with a confrontational party whose leader practicesmalignant slanderous behavior with everyone who disagrees with him and whose command of the "facts" are non-existent--not that he doesn't promise the world and then mail it special delivery to billionaires.

Timidity won't work. I had no idea that there were so many WWF fans in the US who were looking for a WWF-style president (with little else to recommend him) and it will be necessary to subdue him by beating him at his own game.

New ideas, but a new assertive, outspoken style that will show unapologetically how cowardly and puppet-like the behavior of Republican members of Congress are.

After all, what is worse than a dictator? Answer: A dictator with 271 obsequiously compliant party members--218 in the House and 53 in the Senate.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

But I am here to help you in your time of need.

If the democrats hope to gain voters in the future, your only option is to adopt the few MAGA ideas you can bear to hold onto, and run with them as your own, thus stealing votes from the right... Find your biggest flaw areas (wokeness, outsourced jobs, open borders) and delete them to match what the Republican party is doing. Then you can regain the voters that have run away and abandoned you.

...You tried some things and they didn't work. That's okay!

I don’t think becoming MAGA-lite would really be a good strategy. This would only alienate the few democratic voters they have left while attracting not enough of the maga crowd to win any elections.

 

[BCP1928]

When such a large swath of voters abandon you, it might be wise to reevaluate the course you're on. Perhaps "listening" is more important than doubling down.

You've got a good point there. The Democrats as a party have not listened to the working class in decades, nor even to those in their own party who do.

 

[Landon Caeli]

I don’t think becoming MAGA-lite would really be a good strategy. This would only alienate the few democratic voters they have left while attracting not enough of the maga crowd to win any elections.

Well, the Democratic party *used* to be the party of "made in America" where the Republicans were the free-trade globalists. Returning to your roots does not make you MAGA-lite. Your party used to support tight borders and decreased illegal immigration, returning to that is not MAGA-lite. Your party never used to be woke, back in the day. Returning to the previous course is not MAGA-lite..

It's who you are.

...When you try some new things and they don't work, you stop doing them.

 

[Landon Caeli]

I am suggesting that the DNC has primaried younger, more progressive candidates (along with progressive candidates of any age) because of timidity.

They have also prevented Jasmine Crockett from getting a committee chairmanship.

They are dealing with a confrontational party whose leader practicesmalignant slanderous behavior with everyone who disagrees with him and whose command of the "facts" are non-existent--not that he doesn't promise the world and then mail it special delivery to billionaires.

Timidity won't work. I had no idea that there were so many WWF fans in the US who were looking for a WWF-style president (with little else to recommend him) and it will be necessary to subdue him by beating him at his own game.

New ideas, but a new assertive, outspoken style that will show unapologetically how cowardly and puppet-like the behavior of Republican members of Congress are.

After all, what is worse than a dictator? Answer: A dictator with 271 obsequiously compliant party members--218 in the House and 53 in the Senate.

No offense, I'm sure a handful of your fellows will agree, but that's not going to solve the problem IMO... It's going to make things worse.

People simply don't like the direction the Democratic party is going. Going deeper in the left direction, is going to cause more fallout.

 

[BCP1928]

No offense, I'm sure a handful of your fellows will agree, but that's not going to solve the problem IMO... It's going to make things worse.

People simply don't like the direction the Democratic party is going. Going deeper in the left direction, is going to cause more fallout.

It depends on which "left" direction you mean.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

"The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.

The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party—the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view."

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-party-poll-voter-confidence-july-2025-9db38021

Polls are part of the problem. Nothing more than popular sentiment not based on anything factual.

Of course I am as critical of the Dems as I am the GOP.

 

[Say it aint so]

But what the article is actually saying is that the American people, as a whole, prefer the way Republicans are handling *ALL* the issues that decide elections, with the exception of Healthcare.

So if the American people just plainly disagree with Democrat politics, in general, then having politicians act more outraged, won't actually change the political preferences of the American people.

I can't say. I don't have access to the polling. I will tell you this though, the Dems are horrible at what the GOP is good at. And that's messaging. You can take the economy for example. It becomes perception vs reality. When a Dem is president, the economy pretty much does better. And one more thing. We Americans tend to get our information social media and podcasts and it's hurting us. I will give you an example. I was reading not too long ago where Trump et al wanted to shutter the Dept of Ed. In the Yahoo comment section is was clear from the comments that the vast majority who echoed that sentiment had no idea what the Dept of Ed actually did. Americans don't go the through the 5 whys before they vote, and It's kind of sad.

 

[Vambram]

After all, what is worse than a dictator? Answer: A dictator with 271 obsequiously compliant party members--218 in the House and 53 in the Senate.

Fortunately, none of that is happening. We are NOT anywhere close to being in a dictatorship.

 

[Always in His Presence]

What happened?

They began to and continue to decline by embracing and emphasizing what 85% of the population either oppose or simply do not support.