Posted on 10/23/2022 3:06:08 PM PDT by Libloather
The liberal Navigator public tracking poll flashed a major warning sign for Democrats in mid-October, reporting a 20 percentage point jump since September in the share of independent voters concerned about the economy and gas prices.
That was not the only data showing a turning of the tide in the battle for Congress. Regional challenges had shown up in internal Democratic polls from deep blue sanctums in the Pacific Northwest, New York and even Rhode Island, Democratic strategists say. Crime, a major focus of Republican advertising, has also risen as a major issue in several races.
Candidates say they have felt the ground shift.
“The economic concern is definitely worse, and I think that is probably part of what has corroded concern about abortion rights,” said Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, 34, a Democratic candidate for Congress in southern Washington State.
Perez is a symbol of the Democratic struggles, fighting in a margin-of-error race against exactly the kind of “ultra-MAGA” candidate Democrats have elevated this year - Republican Joe Kent, who denies the outcome of the 2020 election, argues U.S. Capitol rioters have been mistreated and wants a moratorium on all legal immigration. But Democrats in Washington have not yet been able to invest directly in her race, as they play defense elsewhere on far less favorable issues.
“Anybody in the real world is very concerned about crime, very concerned about the price of groceries,” said Perez, whose own auto-repair shop, in northeast Portland, has been broken into four times in the last year.
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ALL the Democrats care about is the ability to engage in whatever immoral sexual practice they desire without consequences. Let everything else be damned. The simply do NOT care about anything else and can not understand why the other half of the nation does not agree with them on that.
Trump is now going to have to run (and win) a third time to bail us out.
Noe they are saying anything less than a 40 House seat loss is a huge victory and rebuke of Republicans.
If the Dems’ race against Joe Kent were “margin of error” as this lying newspaper says, the Dems would be pouring millions into her campaign. The usual lies from the paper with the phony motto, “Democracy dies in Darkness”.
They will call it a tantrum by uneducated hicks wearing MAGA hats.
Maybe a majority of Americans just don’t think murder is a right.
Ignore those outliers, Dems. Keep obsessing about January 6 and demonizing Trump. Crime, the economy, they’re just talking points and further evidence of Republican racism and desperation, because Joe Biden is doing such an amazing job./;D
It was misogyny. Ageism is next.
Really? That is ridiculous. The ComPost is awful, just awful.
Soon, nobody will care what they call it. Because at that point, what difference will it make.
But But dont ya know EVERYONE cares about abortion its like the ONLY thing that matters/sarc
LOL! You know that isn't fair. that's only part of it. They also care deeply about:
They should relax Nancy said everything is in the bag ,LOL
That’s true. They will pull out all the stops in the cheating machine.
They won’t even try to hide it. Why? Because they own the media and the judges/prosecutors.
Well, maybe they think about those other things after the climax.
Add a #5: Race, class, gender.
Left wing Twitter is clinging to the outliers showing Beto within striking distance and “women are furious!”
My 401 is now a 201.
Thanks Brandon.
Oh, they'll blame Biden.
The Left will turn on him with a swiftness that'll give observers whiplash. You'd better believe it.
And white supremacy, of course.
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