Posted on 05/07/2018 11:52:39 AM PDT by simpson96
RUSH: Ben Shapiro at The Daily Wire: “Red wave? Poll Shows Republicans Could Pick Up 9 Senate Seats.” Wait, what, what? Wait, what about the blue wave? The blue wave, Republicans are gonna lose the House and Democrats are gonna take the House, Democrats gonna do impeachment, they’re gonna get rid of Trump. Wait a minute. What is this?
“According to new Morning Consult polls, Democrats are in serious trouble in Senate races across the country. Republicans have serious leads in West Virginia, where incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin trails by 14 points; North Dakota, where incumbent Democrat Heidi Heitkamp trails by eight; Indiana, where incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly trails by five; Missouri, where incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill trails by five.” And there is polling data out of Missouri that essentially says Missourians think she’s old news, it’s time for a change.
In fact, in San Francisco, a local CBS affiliate, a TV station, made mention of the fact that Nancy Pelosi is less popular than, I think was it Trump — nah, it’s not Trump. I forget who. But the point is that Pelosi is not even ruling the roost in her own home district in San Francisco. And yet we hear about this blue wave that’s coming. And the only evidence of that is, of course, polling data from back in December and January.
In Montana, Jon Tester trails by five. By the way, there’s news on that. There’s a position for Mike Pence. Name is Pena. I forget her first name. What’s her name? Name is Jennifer Pena. She’s apparently the one that dropped the dime on Ronny Jackson, and she did it by going directly to the Senate, which means Jon Tester. So she goes over there and she tells Tester all this horrible stuff about Ronny Jackson. Tester runs with it, of course.
It turns out to have been untrue! Pence’s official doctor dropped the dime on Trump’s! Well, she has resigned. Gee whiz. “VP Physician Who Targeted Ronny Jackson Resigns.” Now the Morning Consult poll: Republicans could pick up nine Senate seats. Now, I have to weigh in on this.
Forget the blue wave stuff. Let’s go back to shortly after the 2016 election, shortly after Trump won, when Washington was turned upside down. Nobody could believe what just happened. And even at that early stage, people began looking at the midterms, House and Senate. And back then, it was a foregone conclusion. You remember James Carville running around talking about how the Democrats had never had less power since the 1920s? That the Democrats were now in the wilderness, that there was no way the Democrats were ever gonna be able to come back? Carville was so down in the dumps, whether he looked up he saw the gutter.
And back then, the story was how the Democrats had so many seats to defend in 2018, something like — I forget the exact number — 18 to 20 Democrats were up for reelection, and many of them in states where Trump had done very well. And so the early conventional wisdom was that the Democrats were headed for even more trouble. The Republicans only have to defend nine seats in the Senate in the midterms. The Democrats, 18 or 20, something like that.
Well, this story from Morning Consult is doing nothing more than confirming what was conventional wisdom after the election. It shows that Republicans could pick up nine seats, which is about what people were saying in December of 2016, January of 2017. So what has happened in the ensuing year and a half hasn’t changed this at all. We just think it has. We think that there’s a big blue wave. We think the Democrats are gonna sweep everything, because Trump is hated.
Well, Trump isn’t hated! People in America living and working where Trump is having an impact are doing quite well. Even Apple announced one of the largest share buybacks in American corporate history, and they’re going to use the money from the Trump tax cut to do it! A share buyback is simply giving money to shareholders. They are returning money to shareholders. The people that own Apple stock are making out like bandits.
All because of Trump’s tax cuts. People are experiencing more disposable income. They have bonuses. As such, the unemployment number, 3.9%, Trump’s approval number, 51%, manufacturing jobs are way up. None of this makes any sense if you measure it against what you see in the Drive-By Media every day. Trump ought to be hated and despised. If you pay attention to the media and you believe what you see there, why, you would think Trump’s on the verge of being thrown out of office tomorrow. That’s how hated he is. That’s how opposed he is. That’s how much people regret voting for him.
And yet the reality is the Democrats, as of now — and you know what I think about these early polls, but we’re gonna use it since they do. Democrats are losing in nine seats in the Senate where Republicans could pick up gains. Republicans gain nine seats? Now, we don’t know how many they’re gonna lose. But they’ve got far fewer to defend. The point is there isn’t any blue wave happening here! And the blue wave that was said to happen in the House, it looks like, if it ever was real, that it is evaporating at the same time.
There’s this story from Matthew Continetti at the Free Beacon. “The Media Is Killing the Democratic Party — The Democratic message has been reduced to Russia and Stormy Daniels.” The Democrats have not had a message since the election. They didn’t have a message during the election. Their message during the election was that Trump is unfit and that Hillary is the greatest candidate for president there’s ever been or that Hillary is entitled or that Hillary’s owed or Hillary is due.
The Democrats haven’t had a message. Obama’s economic message was, “Hey, the best days are behind us. Get used to the decline. America has no exceptionalism about it. America never was that great.” That was the American message during Obama. Is it any wonder the Democrats were sent packing? What has happened to rebound for the Democrats? What’s happened to make them look good to people?
What’s happened in the last year and a half to make people think the Democrats are where we would rather be, rather have leading the country? It doesn’t make any sense! It makes literally no sense at all. Yet the narratives and the forecasts of the Drive-By Media are just that, that the American people regret, the American people have buyer’s remorse, the American people desperately want the Democrats back, Hillary or Bernie, it doesn’t matter, Elizabeth Warren, but they want the Democrats back. Well, there’s no evidence of that. It’s one gigantic illusion, one gigantic lie after lie after lie, indirect and direct.
I don’t know how much this is a real phenomenon, but the media have proved over and over and over that THEY BELIEVE that by convincing the public about an outcome of an election that they can influence it in that direction.
It makes sense to some degree, but I don’t know how much it has been studied or proven to be true. If you can convince voters who vote one way that the other side will win, a certain percentage of them will stay home. No?
The media have been wrong in the past, but there is no greater proof of how much they want to project the wrong message and influence an election, you only need to look at their behavior running up to the 2016 presidential election.
Sometimes I go back and watch the election news from election night. It’s funny to see the shock and awe as they reported, in real time, the “bad” news, bad from their point of view. Those media people looked like they were reporting on a tragedy of some kind.
They were shocked and stunned as state after state went for Trump. They couldn’t believe it.
how about the last midterms? That was hilarious.
I hear you. It’s almost criminal how entertaining (and free) that is!
Here’s an example of “Madd Maxine, the Flaming Liberal” helping the RATs “Blue Wave.”
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=125925
I am hoping for a ‘blue wave’ here. ‘Here’, is Canaduh and ‘blue’ is the Conservative Party.
Unfortunately, we have to hold out until Monday, October 21, 2019 federally and until May 31, 2019 in Alberta.
The Ontario election is scheduled for June 7, 2018 and it looks like the Conservatives will win, perhaps even with a majority. Things may be looking up.
Every Republican running this year needs to fully embrace President Trump and ask, no beg, for him to come and do rallies in their cities. His rallies are STILL HUGE and that should worry the democrats plenty! We could actually pick up seats in the House IF the Republicans running are truly about helping the American People. We are on the move for regaining America’s Greatness, so pass the word to every republican running: Support your President and his policies....It’s the Economy stupid!!! Mention the jobs, jobs, jobs, mention the tax breaks, mention the defense of America and how ISIS has been all but wiped out under Trump’s Presidency...LOTS to be excited over! We should be wiping the FLOOR with DEMOCRATS crap!
Blue wave - blue wall - yeah, whatever...
During elections, especially in Executive Election years, democrats are always going to turn out the votes they can buy. Only the weather really changes the consistency of the liberal voter turnout.
Republican voters are different. They are more sensitive to the candidates and the issues. Most of us (maybe all) have held our nose and pulled a lever for the lesser of evils. But we are country, issue and candidate driven.
In this way, these days, the media can really only hurt the democratic voters and motivate the republican voters (at least on a national scale). Is the media going to affect voting outcomes in California? New York? Etc. But poke fun at the Midwest or Texas, vilify Chic-fil-a or bash bible toting, gun loving Christians and watch Republican voters patiently stand in line to prove them wrong.
There is something to the silent majority. But the media hasn’t figured it out yet, still.
Every Republican candidate better get on the Trump Train or get the hell out of the way, pack up, and go home.
It is up to us to ensure that they get sent packing if they don’t support the American people and the Trump agenda.
Liberal elites hate Trump... AND newsrooms around the country are staffed by the children of liberal elites... Men and women who never faced anything tougher than waiting to find out if DaaaDee would send the money for the eight thousand dollar purse... or the entry fees and travel expense for an international sailboat race.
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/06/newsroom-diversity-new-york-times-washington-post-newspapers/
She is nuts!
I don’t think there is a blue wave, unless it’s the Japanese baseball team the Orix Blue Wave (Ichiro Suzuki’s team in Japan.) That Blue Wave I believe is real.
Ost Dhimmirats these days are floridly psychotic..
“Most”
The media is the Party.
Canada has no Electoral College.
The provinces want santuary status from the coastal cities.
The Blue Wave will turn out to be an Ebb Tide.
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