Besides I believe Trump was rather restrained on his Tweets for the last week. I don't think there was one totally ridiculous tweet in the past seven days.
Agreed, if they don't take this seriously, We are in for a sh**ty mid-term. Is ANYONE doing post mortem? All I hear is Russia Russia Russia Van Jones tried but he's been marginalized as well
This is a pretty good recap from a person who does elections in Florida. http://steveschale.com/blog/2017/6/20/one-big-lesson-from-ga-06.html Ossoff's best chance would have been if Handel lost the primary. She is a known candidate in a a ruby red district. Ossoff is a young and a newcomer who tried to make the election national with a candidate who did everything possible to remove Trump from the equation unlike the other Republican candidates she beat in the "primary". Ossoff outspent Handel but the Republicans outspent the Democrats in the district. This was over when Handel won the "primary".
What do you expect? The Russia hoax is all you have. Face it. The Democrats have finally been "unmasked" and shown for what they really are: a fringe party out of touch with the American people. Get used to it.
Thanks, no one has pointed that out before, and yet Hillary will never be President, which makes me smile even if it means 4 years of Drumpf.
We also have Donald Trump, a bumbling idiot with an approval rating below 40%. We have Mitch McConnell who is one of the least popular members of the Senate. We have a cabinet of morons, like flat earther Betsy DeVos, Mr. Oops Rick Perry and the grain storage expert Ben Carson. Just give these idiots more time ... they will have their Katrina moments. Keep celebrating your narrow wins in what are supposed to be safe red districts. Eventually you'll need to take your gloating into actual swing districts where a 10-20 point swing is going to make a difference.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...d-with-gop-candidates-in-ala-senate-race-poll Don't look now but the Democrat in Alabama is only trailing by 3/4 points in the race to replace Jeff Sessions. Of course the Republicans are still locked in their primary battle. It's probably safe to assume that this lead increases once Republicans unify behind one candidate. But still would be noteworthy just making Republicans spend a little money on what should be one of the safest seats in the country. In the end this will be another good show by Democrats without actually winning anything.
Democrats win two special elections for state house seats - one in New Hampshire (Trump +16) and one in Oklahoma (Trump +10). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...oma-new-hampshire_us_59b93e62e4b086432b035ea2 And they were...not close. Rosencrants won in Oklahoma by 21 points, and St. Clair won his New Hampshire district by 10 points.
Dems flipped a state senate seat in Florida and a lower house seat in New Hampshire that had been red since Lincoln. 28-point swing in that one from last year's election. They've now flipped 8 GOP seats in 27 chances so far this cycle, which works out to about a 30% success rate in districts Trump won by an average of 19 points. No Dem seats at any level have flipped from blue to red so far. If that ~30% success rate holds up in next year's midterms, it means about 80 red seats lost in the House. It should also mean a ton of state houses will flip. The above + Corker's retirement... writing's on the wall for the GOP. Gonna be 2006 on steroids.
Except this time with more sophisticated voter suppression tactics with the cyber support of a hostile world power.
Democrats are surging in special elections, and that's not what we've been used to in recent years "Democrats are, for the most part, doing better than President Obama did in 2012 as well. Democrats outperformed Obama by more than 10 points in 18 races, and Republicans outperformed by more than 10 in just three races. Democrats have outperformed Obama by about 10 points on average in 2017 special elections."
Do not underestimate the ability of the democratic party to fvck shit up and turn an easy victory into a great defeat.
They are already working hard at that. They can just keep letting Dear Leader and co make themselves look like fools without having to make comments that Dear Leader and co need to stir up the base.