Release the report!
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This isn’t the biggest deal in the world, but it seems really misguided to sit on this:
The Democratic National Committee is killing its autopsy of the 2024 election.
Ken Martin, the chairman of the D.N.C., said on Thursday that he had decided not to publish a report that he ordered months ago into what went wrong for the Democratic Party last year. Party officials have conducted more than 300 interviews with Democrats in all 50 states to create a document that Mr. Martin had once pitched as crucial to charting a path forward.
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D.N.C. officials provided a summary of some of the report’s findings. The prescriptions were more tactical than strategic. For example, the audit found that so-called peer-to-peer text messaging had not actually generated meaningful conversations — or moved the needle in persuading voters.
The research also found that the party had been too focused on the overall numbers of doors knocked on and calls made rather than on quality interactions. In 2024, Trump campaign officials had mocked the statistics that the Harris team was releasing and argued that the Republican operation was more narrowly and effectively targeting its outreach to lower-propensity voters.
Other findings include that Democrats did not spend sufficiently on streaming services to reach younger voters — whom it described as a new swing coalition — and that the party’s data infrastructure showed signs of strain.
The unreleased report also said, according to the officials, that the party had operated from a defensive posture on issues like public safety and immigration, while ceding ground on the economy to Republicans.
1)The idea that a news cycle of coverage of this report if they release it will affect the election 11 months from now is nuts.
2)A lot of these points — particularly the relative inefficiency of fieldwork compared to advertising and the need for more focus on reaching low-propensity.swing voters –are important, and party leadership needs to make them even if (and especially because) some consultants/activists don’t want to hear them.