Democrats lead by 18 points in a generic ballot, according to the most recent CNN poll. More than one-half (56 percent) of respondents said they are most likely to vote for the Democratic candidate, while 36 percent said they would vote for the Republican. Pundits have been giddy while reciting these poll results.

But polls are a snapshot in time and, unfortunately for Democrats, the election is still more than 10 months away. Ten months is an eternity in politics. And based on the pushback being given to the bill by Democrats and left-leaning pundits, those 18 points could evaporate.

Recently, Republican Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, appeared on Morning Joe after Congress struck a deal on the tax cut scam.

It was evident that Brady intended to spin. Host Willie Geist asked him the wrong questions as he pushed the carried interest issue without enough context. It’s not about giving tax breaks to wealthy people: it is about theft from the masses.

Geist should have told viewers how much carried interest adds up to, and asked the congressman why increasing the deficit by that amount (which the masses will pay for in interest on the debt and cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and infrastructure) is not class warfare. Geist should have asked the congressman: Why take money away from poor and middle-class Americans to give huge windfalls to people who already got rich off the labor of Americans? Framed in this manner, carried interest is a threat to poor and middle-class Americans, rather than some esoteric benefit for the rich that they do not understand.

Democrats and progressives need to frame the narrative in a manner people can understand.