Book Club - "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts"
Mon, Nov 25
|Kennedy Public Library
Join us for a discussion of this important book!
Time & Location
Nov 25, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Kennedy Public Library, 1700 W McGalliard Rd, Muncie, IN 47304, USA
About the event
Join us for a discussion of this important book!
**From the publisher's website: "Why do Democrats fail to win voters to their side, and what can they do to develop new winning political strategies—especially as the very fate of democracy hangs in the balance in 2024? Too often the carefully constructed, rational arguments of the Left meet a grisly fate at the polls, where voters are instead swayed by Republican candidates hawking anger, fear, and resentment. Only when Democrats are handed an overwhelming motivational issue—like the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade—have they found a way to counter this effect.
Political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitecofer came to prominence after predicting the size (to the seat) of the Democrats’ rare Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms. At the heart of her prediction lay a powerful concept—negative partisanship, or the idea that voters, even most so-called independents, don’t…