It’s the day after midterm elections when then Left thinks that are retaking the House ( which they feel is likely).
That way, impeachment will be possible.
I’m calling this one way ahead of time. Book it.
$1,000 to the charity of the winner's choice. Deal?
A new Marist poll shows the Democratic lead down to six points, and it’s not the only series showing improvements either.
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that when voters were asked which party’s candidate they’d more likely vote for in their district, 46 percent of registered voters said Democrats, while 40 percent went with Republicans. Nine percent are undecided.
That shows a sizable decline from December polling, which found Democrats leading by 13 points on generic ballot polling.
Thursday’s poll found more welcome news for Republicans among registered voters who identify as Independents.
Among those voters, Republicans led by 2 points, with 38 percent of those voters saying they’d vote for the GOP candidate, while 36 percent said the Democratic candidate. In December, polling found that Democrats were leading among Independent voters by 11 points.
Bear in mind, too, that Democrats’ actual performance in Congressional cycles underperforms this metric. Republicans would certainly prefer to lead, but even trailing by a few points usually puts them in position to hold their serve. Six points would still signal a tough fight, but perhaps not enough momentum for Democrats to take back seats in districts where they’ve lost touch with voters.
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Just like Americans are warming up to the tax cuts that they haven't even seen in their paychecks on a monthly basis yet, Americans will take a cold shower before they put the economy back into the hands of Democrats.
Link: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/18/blue-wave-stall-marist-shows-dems-lead-plunging-generic-congressional-ballot/
On most issues, the extreme positions increasingly define the respective parties' current policy positions. This leaves little room for reasonable compromise. It also means that our political debates tend to devolve into ad hominem attacks that merely provoke defensive reactions. Until we share a common enemy, we are doomed to perpetually squabble with one another and avoid any chance for harmony. Fortunately, the country tends to run itself fairly decently without resolution of our most cantankerous disputes.
DACA for border security. Shouldn't he get a little bit of credit for offering to work with Democrats?
that's exactly why it was imperative for Durban to run to the press as fast as he could with his shithole story. The last thing that the leading Dems want is any kind of compromise. And that goes for a good chunk of the Republicans as well.
...even if illegal immigrant families are split up because of their inability to compromise.
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Midterm history favors D,s
Many R’s up for re-election favors D’s
Multiple retirements and step downs on R side favors D’s
Several court rulings on gerrymandering favors D’s
Irrational burning hatred translating into voter turn out favors D’s
MSM coverage always favors D’s & their loss of fear to simply make stuff up favors D’s
But on the R’s side: the economy. Not one Dem voted for the tax cut that has spurred the economy since even the hope arose when Trump was elected.
If the R’s are savvy, they will simply say Dem X wants to take your tax cut away. But I do not have a high level of trust that they are savvy.
1. Nancy Pelosi. No explanation needed.
2. The great, venerable and time-tested James Taranto Principle, described below.
What is the Taranto Principle? It is a principle laid down by the Wall Street Journal's perceptive editorialist, James Taranto. Mr. Taranto, in his column "Best of the Web Today," surveys the press and reports daily on their output with special emphasis on their contradictions, hypocrisies and — most deliciously — imbecilities. Like all other thoughtful observers of American press, Mr. Taranto recognizes that they are heavily biased toward the Democratic Party and the left in general.
Yet, while many who hold that this advances the Democratic Party and the left, Mr. Taranto believes that it has a harmful effect on left-wing politics, often causing left-wing candidates to lose at the polls.
According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans. According to Mr. Taranto, in 2004 the press quietly went along with Senator Jean-Francois Kerry's exaggerated claims to heroism and military prowess, thus encouraging his braggadocio and leaving him utterly unprepared when his fellow vets stepped forward and demonstrated that he had been a dreadful showoff in Vietnam.
Officers who had fought alongside him served up evidence that his exploits were embellished and sometimes completely made up. They cast doubt on his medals and most damningly reminded us that in testimony on Capitol Hill Kerry accused his fellow soldiers of war crimes. The vets reproduced the video, video that any journalist could have laid hands on.
The vets' assault on Mr. Kerry is now called "Swift Boating" by left-wingers and journalists alike, who insist the vets' charges were "lies," though four years later it is apparent that the so-called lies composed an accurate rendering of blowhard Mr. Kerry's war record. Had the press treated his initial boasts with some skepticism, he might have been better prepared for the vets' response. The left-leaning press spoiled Mr. Kerry and brought out the worst in him to the revulsion of enough voters to lose him the election.