RE: Dcorps deck

Yeah, same thing jumped out at me on the bank question – wonder if that was shorthand for the deck or a misplaced comma, and if the question actually read more like *breaking up the big banks that caused the economic meltdown*. (If not, no wonder it tested last) * A few interesting things in the poll although I find the “enthusiasm” jump overstated at the back end. I do wish the items in the issues battery were tested in a neutral, consistent way without some of them being loaded with messaging/values statement and others not: For example: if you load up the MedicareSS with BECAUSE as the values statement behind you’re tilting the question; And it sounds great until someone asks her how she’s going to pay for that? I wonder why even the small number of Republicans who are “less positive” --- I also find lumping minimum wage in with “defending the right of worker to bargain” for better wages turns a minimum wage policy into something that sounds like a sop to unions. And breaking big banks was positioned as leading to another collapse and bailout??? Why include matching small donor contributions as a way to get corporate money out of the system…. Without telling them that match is with taxpayers $$$ -- seems you would get a different result doesn’t it? Sorry to be less enthusiastic about this issues battery but if you load up some and not others, it simply is not a balanced test. * Also interesting that Medicare/Social Security and Infrastructure proposals were at or near the top. This includes increased SS benefits. Both of these are close to Sanders' agenda. --*Medicare/SS*: Protect Medicare and Medicaid so seniors don't pay more for care, don't raise the retirement age and raise Social Security benefits because so many seniors depend on their check to survive. --*Infrastructure:* Move on a long term plan to rebuild America by investing in infrastructure, modernizing schools, improving roads and bridges, and investing in clean energy to create millions of good paying jobs. *Mandy Grunwald* *Grunwald Communications* *202 973-9400* ----- Also of note, breaking up the big banks seemed to be the bottom of the Dem agenda items they tested. * Latest from Stan DCorps and WVWV. Largely consistent with our thinking on core issues. The $ in politics and reform sections are worth looking at. One transparency idea that we should discuss is whether we start posting contributions and expenditures as close to real time as possible and call on others to do the same. The getting rich being rich meme also looks like it could be more trouble than I first thought. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Thanks for today. Stan [image: cid:image001.jpg@01CFFA9D.B5C5C3C0] Nancy Zdunkewicz *Program Manager* 10 G Street NE, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20002 nzdunkewicz@gqrr.com| Phone: +1 202 478 8300 www.democracycorps.com *Follow on Twitter <https://twitter.com/DemCorps>*| Like on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/democracycorps>