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    Default Midterm election trends not looking good

    September 4, 2018

    Midterm election trends not looking good

    By Carol Brown


    We're two months out from the midterm elections, and the trend doesn't favor our team – in the Senate, the House, or governorships.

    Despite a roster of Democratic candidates promoting socialist ideas, a lot of Americans don't seem to find the line-up of loons particularly crazy. Many of these candidates are young, energetic, and charming, packaging socialism in a nice box with a neat little bow.

    Mmm. I'll take two, please.
    Here's one: Robert Francis O'Rourke. He adopted the nickname "Beto" to endear himself to the Hispanic community.
    O'Rourke appears to be a highly calculated melding of Robert Kennedy (wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up partway) and Obama, who was brilliant at masking the evil in his heart with soaring rhetoric (to the numb and mindless).
    Now, as O'Rourke crisscrosses the country, scarfing up gobs of money from coastal elites, Real Clear Politics has moved the Texas Senate race from "leans Republican" to "likely Republican" to "toss up." It didn't take that long. At the rate it's going, I won't be surprised if it soon shifts to "likely Dem."
    Meanwhile, in a matter of days, socialist Andrew Gillum, who's running for governor of Florida, has eclipsed Ron DeSantis in the polls. Gillum now has a 5-point lead. I expect that it will climb even higher.
    While we may see Gillum as a fringe candidate with an obnoxious vision of transforming Florida into California, a lot of folks apparently like him – so much so that he raised a million bucks in one day. (You know, from all those capitalists who love socialism.)
    Why wouldn't he catapult to Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-15-minutes-of-fame-that-won't-quit?
    We've got decades of brainwashed Americans (via the education system, media, and pop culture) who don't know the difference between liberty and tyranny, who no longer value free speech, who hold contempt for the Constitution, who don't know how to think critically, who know next to nothing about history, and who mindlessly support totalitarian ideas.
    So why wouldn't there be hordes of folks eating up socialist pablum like there's no tomorrow?
    The left is stark raving mad. Angry, resentful, and certifiably insane. But this hapless group of folks have a well-oiled political machine deeply integrated into the culture. They wield enormous power and influence. And they're bent on raking us over the election coals two months from now.

    Undoubtedly, there will be conservatives who offer counter-arguments to my perspective: "Don't believe the polls." "No path to 270." "They just want to discourage us." "It doesn't matter. RINOs and Democrats are the same."
    To these I will say, taking each point in turn:

    Polls or no polls, take nothing for granted. If the polls are wrong, then great. We win more races than predicted. Maybe even some landslides. But if the polls are right, or even close to right, we're in trouble, and no amount of sarcasm or sweeping this truth under the rug will save us.
    This isn't the 2016 presidential election. Harking back to that glorious day when we won the presidency and banking on similar shocking upsets won't win races. Wistful memories will serve only as an excuse to do nothing in this precious and fleeting pre-election window.
    Discouragement is irrelevant. How can anyone not vote because of how he feels emotionally?! Seriously. Vote. Always vote.
    Meanwhile, as disappointing as RINOs may be, there are still issues where even their votes helped advance our values and helped hold the left at bay. That matters.

    We're also bucking history. Typically, the party in control loses seats in the House during midterm elections. The question that remains is how many seats we'll lose and if we can keep the Democrats from reaching the magic majority number of 218. So far, they're gaining ground. Steadily. The polling averages at Real Clear Politics look bad and are getting worse.

    Glib over-confidence won't win races for us. What's needed is hard work, money, and unwavering commitment to do everything we can to make sure the left doesn't gain more power. Because the left means to take this country down. One way and another.
    Confident or discouraged. Worried or hopeful. Let's work our tails off to win as many races as we can. Two months will pass in a blink of an eye.

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    What's needed is hard work, money, and unwavering commitment

    what is needed in addition to the above are candidates that people WANT to vote for
    for far to long the republicans have run candidates that people had to hold their noses to vote for
    when I cast a ballot I want to be voting FOR someone not against someone else
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
    What's needed is hard work, money, and unwavering commitment

    what is needed in addition to the above are candidates that people WANT to vote for
    for far to long the republicans have run candidates that people had to hold their noses to vote for
    when I cast a ballot I want to be voting FOR someone not against someone else
    ^^^^^^exactly^^^^^^
    Government is for those that would be governed.


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    I heard similar predictions endlessly recently...trying to recall exactly when and who....it's coming to me...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl Sinclair View Post
    I heard similar predictions endlessly recently...trying to recall exactly when and who....it's coming to me...


    Earl

    I think that was back a year or two??? LOL

    I'm hearing different down here in the trenches, many friends who are Dems, will not vote for Claire this time. A couple of them even have Republican yard signs too.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/

    None of the ten Democrat senators up for re-election in 2018 in states won by Donald Trump in 2016 have commented publicly yet on the obstructionist antics of their Democrat colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee’s Democrat members turned the hearings Tuesday morning on the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh into a chaotic circus.

    Breitbart News reached out to all ten with the following question as the hearings devolved into grandstanding and attempts to shut the hearing down by all the Democrat members of the committee, especially 2020 Democrat presidential contenders Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA): “Do you support the obstructionist conduct of your Democratic colleagues on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the committee’s hearing this morning on the confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh?”


    Not a single one of these ten Red State Democrat senators up for re-election– Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), or Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — responded to Breitbart News by press time.


    Casey, Baldwin, and Brown have already announced they will vote against confirming Kavanaugh.
    None of these ten Red State Democrat senators are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
    At least half a dozen of these Democrats are already in re-election peril.


    An Axios-Survey Monkey poll released in July shows that three of these senators–Bill Nelson in Florida, Joe Donnelly in Indiana, and Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota–are trailing their Republican challengers.
    The race between Missouri’s Sen. McCaskill and Republican nominee State Attorney General Josh Hawley is a dead heat, according to the Real Clear Politics Average of Polls.


    In Montana, Sen. Tester’s lead over Republican nominee Matt Rosendale has dwindled to five points, also according to the Real Clear Politics Average of Polls.


    A poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports released on Tuesday shows that 69 percent of Americans believe Kavanaugh’s confirmation is likely. The poll of 1,000 respondents was conducted between August 29 and September 2.
    Given the broad support of the Kavanaugh nomination, these ten Red State Democrats face the potential of significant local backlash at the polls if they continue to tacitly support the obstructionist tactics of their Democrat colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee.


    also on https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/

    GOP Nominee Josh Hawley Tied with Claire McCaskill in Missouri Senate Rac

    Republican nominee and Missouri state Attorney General Josh Hawley is now tied with Democrat incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in the race for Missouri’s U.S. senate seat this November, according to a new poll.

    A new NBC News/Marist poll shows that among likely voters, both get 47 percent support, with only five percent undecided.

    The poll has Hawley ahead one point among the “larger pool of registered voters” — 47 percent to McCaskill’s 46 percent.

    The race is one of the most high-profile of 2018, with Republicans looking to increase their numbers in the Senate by picking off vulnerable Democrats in states that voted for President Trump.
    Trump won Missouri in 2016 by an overwhelming 18.5 percent margin of victory. According to the new poll, Trump’s job rating in the state is at 45 percent among likely voters. However, 46 percent disapprove.

    The approval numbers are the same among registered voters — 44 percent who approve versus 46 percent who disapprove.

    Trump’s favorability in the state among likely voters is about the same — 44 percent positive versus 50 percent negative.

    RealClearPolitics also has Hawley and McCaskill in a dead heat. A Missouri Scout poll also has them tied, which represents a closing in of Hawley on McCaskill from the firm’s last poll in early May, which had McCaskill up by four percentage points.

    McCaskill so far has remained silent about her Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee who, on Tuesday, attempted to employ obstructionist tactics during a hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.

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