The progressive blue wave is crashing and burning in 2018

The Hill ^ | 06/10/18 | Douglas Schoen

[yesthatjallen]

The June 5 primaries underscored just how disastrous an impact the far-left progressive faction of the Democratic Party could have in undermining its chances of taking back control of the House in November. Take what happened in California, the state with arguably the greatest implications for the Democratic Party’s prospects this fall. California has widely been seen as a litmus test for Democratic prospects at picking up the 23 seats needed to take back control of the House in midterms.

Yet, the primary season was marked by overcrowded Democratic fields and divisive Democratic infighting between progressive candidates seemingly embracing socialism, and candidates that were markedly moderate and inclusive. These self-styled progressive candidates flooded competitive “jungle primary” races up and down the Golden State, ultimately cannibalizing the Democratic vote. The end result was a strong night for Republicans at both the gubernatorial and congressional level.

In the governor’s race, Republicans avoided the doomsday scenario of having two Democrats secure the most votes, which would have left them without a Republican at the top of the ticket this November, while the Democrats failed at shutting Republican candidates out of the top two slots in a single House district, including the seven hotly contested Republican-held districts carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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[yesthatjallen]

Douglas E. Schoen (@DouglasESchoen) served as a pollster for President Clinton. A longtime political consultant, he is also a Fox News contributor and the author of 11 books, including “Putin’s Master Plan: To Destroy Europe, Divide NATO, and Restore Russian Power and Global Influence.”

[DIRTYSECRET]

We needed JUST ONE race with Republicans finishing 1-2.

[DoughtyOne]

The progressive blue wave is crashing and burning in 2018

The progressive blue sinkhole is growing larger/deeper in 2018

[Repeal The 17th]

There never was a “blue wave”.
It was propaganda.
The pollsters and pundits now have to backtrack.

[Paladin2]

The GOPee needs to run ads of Mad Max running around scrami9ng IMPEACH 45!.

[Slyfox]

[onyx]

Issa's House seat (District 49) looked like a goner but now it looks like it will stay in GOP hands with a little luck.

The Democrat is an enviromental lawyer, who was a classmate of Chelsea Clinton's at Stanford.

[Sarah Barracuda]

There was never any “blue wave” other than the blue wave in the toilet bowl..the Communist Rat party is all about Impeaching Trump and making America Communist..in fact that should be their 2018 Motto, turn America Commie

[dragnet2]

I'm thinking 2020 could be the biggest blowout win in election history for Trump. The lying nasty Democrats have a platform of surrender, defeat and decline, and they have no candidate. They have no clue what a leader is.

Whoever they put up is going to get KO'd by Trump!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“These self-styled progressive candidates flooded competitive ‘jungle primary’ races up and down the Golden State, ultimately cannibalizing the Democratic vote.”

‘A Thing Of Beauty is a Joy Forever.’ ~ John Keats, 1818

MAGA! :)

[Pollster1]

The pollsters and pundits now have to backtrack.

Would pollsters lie?

[Cheerio]

The progressive blue sinkhole is growing larger/deeper in 2018

[Doogle]

...another Odungo lead disaster... followed up by Hildabeast blaming everything and everybody.....
Watch for more of Odungo claiming the
American people are stupid ....

[TLI]

To be sure, for Democrats, there is no way of denying that the groundswell of progressive candidates have energized the Democratic base. But they have also left the party profoundly divided heading into November.

Blue fog...

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[Cheerio]

The GOPee needs to run ads of Mad Max running around scrami9ng IMPEACH 45!.

[SaveFerris]

They seem to have shut her up lately.

Which is too bad. We need more laughs from that Crazy Democrat Maxine Waters.

[Kartographer]

"The pollsters and pundits now have to backtrack."

They will just cry again about the Russian 'boogie-men' hiding in the closet, under the beds and in the voting machines.

[Cheerio]

Watch for more of Odungo claiming the American people are stupid ....

The Simple Truth: President Obama is Too Intelligent for Republicans to Understand

[TakebackGOP]

If the GOP doesn’t lose, then I hope they get rid of McConnell.

[j.havenfarm]

We can only hope that the crashing and burning of the wave will be followed by the abolition of mixed metaphors