{"id":165167,"date":"2025-09-18T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165167\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:49:16","slug":"persuadable-voters-want-democrats-to-take-a-stand-against-republicans-in-the-upcoming-funding-fight-especially-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165167\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuadable Voters Want Democrats to Take a Stand Against Republicans in the Upcoming Funding Fight, Especially on Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Message testing finds that messages from Democratic candidates on how they will not vote for the GOP\u2019s upcoming funding bill unless it addresses these same priorities \u2014 particularly health care \u2014 can increase their performance at the ballot box.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In late August, Grow Progress and Data for Progress conducted a message test that looked broadly at persuasion among all registered voters, persuadable voters who say they tend to vote equally for both major parties, and those who say they normally vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">All messages used language about Democrats taking a hard stance, such as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\">\u201cDemocrats say they will not vote for the Republicans\u2019 government funding package unless\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\">\u201cDemocrats are taking a stand against this funding package\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Every single message tested has a directional or significant persuasive net effect on vote choice \u2014 making clear that the message framing of Democrats fighting harder is very effective.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In particular, a broad message about Democrats standing up for health care funding in the budget package increases net Democratic vote choice by +9 points among all registered voters and +28 points among persuadable voters, or those who say they vote about equally for both parties. Likewise, two education-focused messages also increase net Democratic vote choice by significant margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Message testing finds that messages from Democratic candidates on how they will not vote for the GOP\u2019s upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-165167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}