…Here is an actual email we just got from “Team Harris-Walz”:
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In the weeks since Election Day, our team and Democrats across the country have been taking stock of our strategy to decide what direction the party should take next. In the spirit of this people-powered campaign, we’re asking you for your input in our post-election focus group survey.
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In just over 100 days, Vice President Harris inspired us to chart a new way forward for our nation. A future where every family could not just get by, but get ahead.
Though our campaign is over, that dream is not. Democrats across the country are organizing to learn from this moment and strategize for the next.
Now, we need your help to chart our new way forward. We’re asking you — our supporters, donors, voters, and volunteers — to tell us what direction you think we should head in.
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We’d love to tell Vice President Harris that you added your input today.
Thank you for your thoughts and time,
Team Harris-Walz
If you agree to participate in this “focus group” you are then asked to respond to a series of closed-ended questions, by clicking on whichever answers you agree with. Forgetting that the first question, “Which of President Trump’s priorities do you find most troubling?” is a study in push-polling (i.e. leading to a partisan conclusion), the fact is that this has absolutely nothing to do with a focus group.
Focus groups involve people answering open-ended questions in their own way, not being forced into choices. So calling this a focus group demonstrates either ignorance, or the assumption that the person answering is ignorant.
If the same people calling this a focus group are the ones who strategized the Harris/Walz campaign, it’s no wonder they lost. The only surprise is that they didn’t lose by more.
