Can Democrats’ Anti-Koch Attacks Actually Work? [Yes, Here’s Why]

November 19, 2015

Recently, Bridge Project conducted six focus groups with swing voters in swing states on the billionaire Koch brothers as they gear up to spend nearly $900 million pushing their agenda and backing their puppet candidates in 2016. The focus groups revealed that to know the Kochs is to dislike them and that voters are turned off by their harmful, self-enriching agenda also backed by their puppet candidates.

National Journal reviewed the 12 hours of focus group footage, finding: “The voters pro­fessed a strong dis­like of the Koch broth­ers, their money, and the in­flu­ence they wield…. In most cases, by the end of the roughly hour-long ses­sions, the gathered men and wo­men said they would be less likely to back then next Re­pub­lic­an nom­in­ee for pres­id­ent be­cause they feared that as pres­id­ent, he or she would have no choice to im­ple­ment the Koch agenda.” (Those fears are well founded — just a few weeks ago, Charles Koch himself admitted he does “expect something in return” for the millions he spends backing candidates.)

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