Haven’t seen Big Media play Concern Troll in a while.
Wake up! If the GOPe doesn’t get with the program and start working with the president, the Republican Party may lose the House and Senate and then Schumer and Pelosi will call the shots.
Don't get me started.
Yes.
Hey Mike!
It’s easy;
If the GOP produces results, we’re fine.
If not, we’re not.
Pretending to project 2018 results, based on Trump’s first 100 days, is a fool’s errand.
By this time, Democrats as they are today would be ramming through legislation like crap through a goose.
It may mean trouble or it may mean that a group with limited resources can move all their resources from one race to another.
During the Battle of the Bulge, at Bastogne, the Germans didn’t attack on multiple fronts, they concentrated their forces in sequential single front attacks. This allowed the undermanned Americans to have a mobile defense moving to meet the current threat.
Maybe the Republicans can learn from this. In this case they need to hold all their elections at one time instead of having races in different locations at varying times. This would force the Democrats to split their forces into multiple defensive positions.
Republicans are in trouble if Congress doesn’t get its sh!t together and help Trump repeal/replace Obamacare, and help him implement major tax reform. All ASAP!!
If Ryan is purposely sabotaging Trump, then we have an even bigger problem.
In addition to pursuing — and explaining — the right policies, two things would help: start raising a huge war chest now, and terminate the circular firing squads.
The author neglected to mention that Ossoff received most of his 8 million dollars from New York and California. That doesn’t say much about Georgia’s support for him. Every special election has now become a referendum on Trump and they haven’t won one yet. All they do is lose one after the other and then claim that the next special election is the REAL referendum on Trump. They’re bound to win one at some point but as far as the referendum they are desperately hoping for, not so much.
No. If they start losing them, then they’re in trouble.
The GA special election isn’t close. Give me a break! Karen Handel will be the next 6th Dist rep.
No!
Let’s Get Real: The Democrats Didn’t even win a Moral Victory in Georgia
National Review ^ | 04/19/2017 | Jeremy Carl
Posted on 4/19/2017, 6:40:24 AM by SeekAndFind
I don’t want to sound like the Baghdad Bob of the 2018 election cycle, but the special election in Georgia’s 6th congressional district was yet another reminder that despite the mainstream media’s relentless narrative attempting to turn the early days of the Trump administration into a story of GOP rout, reality has stubbornly refused to cooperate with them.
Don’t get me wrong—the GOP is absolutely facing headwinds in 2018. And there’s a lot of political ground left to cover in November. I’d certainly rather be in a position of winning districts by increasing margins rather than decreasing ones. Could the GOP lose the House?—Absolutely. But, as I wrote in my recent analysis of the 2018 election cycle, the Senate is not going to go Democratic in this political environment—or even anything close to it.
GA-06 is according to both the Cook PVI and 538.com the most Democratic-leaning seat in GA held by a Republican. There are 46 districts held by the GOP that are more Democratic than this one according to the 538 model. On the surface that would seem alarming for the GOP since the Democrats need win only 25 more seats to get a majority. But most of these are only very narrowly closer than GA-06. And very few of them will be open seats, as this one was. Given the broader context of the race, the political handicappers had already rated this race as a toss-up. The vast majority of allegedly vulnerable GOP seats are rated as no worse than GOP leans.
And GOP candidates look to have won overall by a couple of percent in an election in which they were badly outspent and spent most of their time attacking each other while Ossoff got slobberly wet kisses from the media and a largely free ride from his GOP opponents. Ossoff got tons of love and money from Hollywood, raising and spending well more than $8 million.
Regardless of what happens in the June runoff, Democrats are not going to bottle that same level of energy and attention and put it in 435 districts in November. They needed a victory and they didn’t get it. And at the end of the day, they didn’t even get that close, finishing with 48.1% of the vote.
Ossoff’s voters were certainly energized. Volunteers came from all over the country and 95% of his money came from outside the district. He took a staggering 71% of the early vote, showing that the most passionate Democrats, the same ones screaming at the GOP town halls, are definitely motivated. But there just don’t seem to be enough of them right now to swing the number of elections they need to win. And In Karen Handel the GOP picked probably the strongest candidate to go up against Ossoff in the general election.
As I wrote in my piece on 2018, the Georgia special election was a must-win for the Democrats if they wanted to show they had real political momentum on their side and a clear path to retake the House majority. They didn’t get there tonight. The reports of the electoral death of the GOP continue to be greatly exaggerated.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3545361/posts
It will be very easy for the dems to use ridicule as a campaign technique. The ‘pubs except for the Freedom Caucus cast themselves as hypocritical dishonest useless traitors to their cause. They did it by voting to repeal Obamacare over 50 times when they knew it didn’t count, then attempting to replace it with their own version of it when it counted.
College student resident switching for voting purposes has to stop. We’ve seen it in VA where kids from the northeast come to school here, then switch their registration to their college town because NY/NJ/CT, etc. don’t need their votes for the Dem, whereas VA does (or did).
Michael Barone = solid analysis
1. He correctly correlates this Georgia special election to Trump’s 2 point margin of victory last fall. The result of the special election should not have surprised anyone.
2. He correctly points out that Republicans all together totaled 51 percent versus the total of 49 for the Democrats added together. Therefore, the run-off will be determined by turn-out. We turn our people out, we win.
3. He could have, but didn’t point out that the margin of victory scored by Dr. Tom Price last year is not a reliable indicator of which way the district might go in an open election. The advantage enjoyed by incumbents is simply ridiculous. Plus, Dr. Price is one of the very best public servants in the country. No wonder he breezed to re-election in a district the fundamentals of which aren’t particularly favorable for Republicans.
4. Unfortunately, Barone is too enamored with the identity politics of the other side. We have to fight the racism and sexism of that party.
Oh please - the Democrats won’t be spending $8.3 million in a general election with that kind of GOTV effort for every candidate and they won’t be running up against no-name republicans - they’ll be up against Incumbents.
I’d suggest, with all the media attention, money thrown at them and the sheer screeching irrationality of Democrats that these two special elections actually demonstrate the strength of the Trump wave. They threw everything including the kitchen sink at them and still lost.
No. I have a piece coming out in “BigLeaguePolitics.com” today or tomorrow: “Democrat Stalingrads”