Gaslight: Republicans are like Ingrid Bergman and The MSM/DemonRat complex is like Charles Boyer.
Gaslight: Republicans are like Ingrid Bergman and The MSM/DemonRat complex is like Charles Boyer.
No, there was a very very real blue wave.. though calling it a “wave” was probably an overstatement...
Up until Kavanaugh, the odds of the Dems taking the house was absolutely the most likely path.... They were showing up consistently at Presidential year turnout numbers in every special election, while the GOP was only pulling mid term levels of turnout....
Had the Dems not been so utterly stupid, they were easily going to flip more than enough purple and pink districts to take back the house... It wasn’t going to be a 2010 63 seat or 1994 50+ seat swing, but little doubt they would get the 23 or more they needed to take the house.
The senate was NEVER in play, GOP was always going to win seats, because overwhelming purple and pink districts with turnout deltas can happen, it doesn’t equate to swings at the statewide lever... So the GOP was always gaining senate seats.
Post Kavanaugh however, the GOP base is fully engaged and enraged, so that enthusiasm advantage is completely gone... and not only that, but the Dems behavior during and since Kavanaugh has been so repugnant, that it has engaged and enraged the middle.... and you can get away with a LOT in US politics... one thing you never survive is Angering the middle.
TO paraphrase Admiral Yamamoto after bombing Pearl Harbor... All the Dems behavior on Kavanaugh did was ....
“Awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with terrible resolve”