By electing Donald Trump to be the 45th President of the United States the American electorate issued "a primal scream," as Republican strategist Steve Schmidt put it on MSNBC the next day, demanding to be heard, respected and served - and no longer dismissed or treated as an outlier in the research.
The only serious alternative strategy for the Democrats is to shift the attention of the electorate to issues like inequality, the declining fortunes of the middle class, corporate greed and diminishing social and economic mobility.
Suddenly, Democrats, especially in the House, were giddily talking of a liberal renaissance in the land, and they were confident that the electorate had issued a blanket endorsement for whatever new investments they might see fit to make.
Of course, the lightning rod works both ways, and for a politician who takes pride in discerning the gut of the electorate, the issue has worked for him far more than against him, helping Mr. Levy, a Democrat, win votes in reliably Republican areas.
The extent to which the electorate uses issue information to update their candidate evaluations over the course of political campaigns has often raised questions about citizen competence.
As evidenced by bipartisan votes of recent legislation and polling of the electorate, no issue unites Americans more than the opioid crisis.
"The voters may be representative of the electorate on some issues," Leighley and Nagler wrote, "but they are not representative of the electorate on issues that go to the core of the role of government in modern democracies".
MacFarlane stresses there is more to the electorate than Indigenous issues.
Right now, the most convenient delusion of all is the idea that culture wars can be summoned to distract the electorate from class issues.
He called that a limiting dynamic that forced Democrats to hew to the center rather than "expand the electorate with electrifying issues".
