A couple days ago I wrote about how RPV’s new plan to tie party growth to dollars was a good one, provided there was a message to go along with it. That sentiment had no real basis in any poll or inside information, just an intuition.
Now my suspicions have been confirmed by pollster Frank Luntz in today’s column by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard:
“It used to be that Republicans won [in polls] on economic and values and foreign policy issues,” [Luntz] says. “Democrats won on quality of life. Now Democrats are winning on everything.”
Yikes.
Here’s a question — is it the message or the messengers?
Update: Gingrich has some thoughts on the subject —