Posted on 02/14/2018 4:00:47 PM PST by davikkm
According to a fresh-from-the-oven Politico-Morning Consult poll, the Republicans already overtook Democrats heading into midterms on a generic congressional ballot. This marks a premiere for the GOP , being the first time since April last year when more voters (39 percent respectively) prefer a GOP candidate, vs 38 percent opting for a Democrat. It’s interesting that almost one in four American voters is still undecided, 23 percent to be precise, and that means that Politico’s poll comes with a relatively high degree of uncertainty, even if the poll claims a margin error of plus/minus 2 percentage points.
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Nine months is an eternity in American politics.
People want to vote for someone, vote for something or some positive reason.
There are limitations to just expecting to get support just based on opposing Trump.
Refer also to LS’s tracking of changes in voter registration by party. R’s up big in nearly every state, especially battleground states.
People don’t care much about party when it comes to these piddly local and state elections. And after losing 1500+ seats under Obama it’s natural to see the Dems winning some of them back.
don’t rest on polls or get tricked into thinking we’re ok if we skip voting this time. We need to be actively supporting every candidate down to city dogcatcher until we have pushed them over the finish line election day. Then we can rest.
MAGA!
Shhhhhh! Wait ... for ... it ....
George Soros is funding a lot of local races.
I think you’re right - he had some kind of ground game going on here for Doug Jones, I believe.
There’s a special election coming up in PA-18 on March 13. It’s for an open house seat vacated by Tim “I’m anti-abortion, but would gladly ask a mistress to get an abortion during a pregnancy scare” Murphy (sorry if people are friends with him on here ... I used to defend the man constantly as I live in the area ... to see him do what he did disgusted me ... we all sin, but for God’s sake, asking a woman to get an abortion like that?).
Fortunately, we have an A+ candidate stepping in. The guy we want to win is Rick Saccone ... a Trump Republican all the way.
He is running against Connor Lamb ... Lamb is running like he’s a conservative (he’s a Marine), but he’s a liberal through and through and won’t have any problems being a slave to Nancy Pelosi’s whims when needed.
This election is getting national attention and national dollars are pouring in.
This is a solid red district and Saccone would be a great successor to Tim Murphy.
If Saccone loses, I’d be worried that the Dems might be onto something strategically. If Saccone wins big (Murphy won against the last Dem that campaigned against him 64-36 in 2016).
Yes, losing local/state special elections is not good since winning = demorialization of the socialists. This race is the one to watch though.
Sorry ... a sentence was truncated :-)
If Saccone wins big, I don’t think things are shaping up to be a “blue wave” this fall.
That’s what I meant to say.
Democrats are playing spoiler. Nobody likes a spoiler.
Where I live, I’d have to find a way to vote about 10,000 times for a Republican candidate to make any kind of shift in the numbers. If there was even one running. Let’s face it, about 85-90% of the Congressional districts in this country are so skewed for one party or the other that you can predict now the results of the 2018, 2020, and possibly 2022 elections in these districts.
What I’d really like to see in surveys like these is what the numbers look like in those seats where there might actually be a contest. That would be meaningful.
For example, look at the popular vote results in 2016 vs. electoral votes. Hitlery polled about 1.3 million more votes nationally than President Trump, but she took California by nearly 3.4 million votes. Not a surprise, and I don’t think that Trump even bothered to campaign here, since he knew there was no way to win the state. But take away that margin, or even cut it in half, and the popular vote follows the Electoral College vote.
All the left has is hate. It’s all they ever had, but Trump brought it to the surface.
The common them was candidates who support open borders and sanctuary cities getting amazing infusions of cash, local and state elections which usually turn on a few thousand dollars, suddenly getting tens of thousands in support out of nowhere.
Pa 18 is indeed the bellweather canary in the coal mine. Blue collar trump area. Must win republican district. Trump and pence have campaigned there and will again. Thats the big one that matters.
The PA-18 race is a big test. The media has been hiding the legislative races and the bluetards are turning out their base. We need to get the word out to conservative friends, family, and co-workers to get out and vote for Rick Saccone.
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