Every one of these focus groups has Dem voters simply unaware of the party message. Trump owns every news cycle. https://t.co/aqYU4TCavY

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 16, 2017

Like, every D candidate I cover talks about the economy, jobs, health care, and then focus groups insist Dems don’t do that.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 16, 2017

And this is the shit that makes me tear my hair out and want to disappear into a carton of ice cream. Even if you argue how unrepresentative the focus groups might be, the same problem results: we have zero megaphone, and ones that are out there either ignore dems completely or blast out distortions that obfuscate anything. In other words, even if we laser focus on the issues, none of that filters out, and apparently laser focusing on our opponents means ‘we have no policies’. It’s the perfect catch-22 that we can’t escape from.