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Top House Democrats show increasing confidence in retaking majority
SF Gate ^ | 5sep18 | Mike DeBonis

Posted on 09/05/2018 6:24:00 AM PDT by vannrox

WASHINGTON - The two top-ranking Democrats indicated Tuesday that their confidence is growing that their party will retake the House majority in November's midterm elections, as a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed voters turning sharply against congressional Republicans.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sent a letter telling colleagues on Tuesday that Democrats "must Be Ready for the prospect that we will be in the Majority in January."

Pelosi said that the top Democrats on House committees will write bills reflecting the party's "For the People" campaign agenda, with an emphasis on reining in health care coats, raising wages and cleaning up corruption in Washington.

The letter came the same day Pelosi said in a NPR interview that she has "every confidence" that Democrats will reclaim the House. "Not because I'm taking anything for granted, but because we're not yielding one grain of sand," she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; democrat; election; trump; win
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1 posted on 09/05/2018 6:24:00 AM PDT by vannrox
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2 posted on 09/05/2018 6:25:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Their hopes are going to get shipwrecked on the hard rocks of reality.


3 posted on 09/05/2018 6:25:36 AM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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We need a massive GOTV strategy and we will keep the house. I hope we have a few hundred people already planning a strategy.


4 posted on 09/05/2018 6:26:41 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Intellectual dishonesty on full display.


5 posted on 09/05/2018 6:26:42 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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ABC - Compost is nothing to get excited about. It is far from the paragon of accuracy.


6 posted on 09/05/2018 6:27:23 AM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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They think that circus tbey brought to town yesterday is going to help their chances. They have NO IDEA how insane they look and sound.


7 posted on 09/05/2018 6:27:42 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and the midterm elections -88-)
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Nancy really thinks they would make her Majority Leader again? Stupid old fool will never realize the error of that assumption.

Slightly smaller GOP majority in the house, slightly larger GOP majority in the Senate.

8 posted on 09/05/2018 6:28:44 AM PDT by dead
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Man, they talk like it’s a 9,000-percent chance of taking the House. All the same jabber from the month prior to the November 2016 election.


9 posted on 09/05/2018 6:29:15 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Remember this - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.


10 posted on 09/05/2018 6:29:44 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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If we get complacent, the Dems could be right.


11 posted on 09/05/2018 6:33:58 AM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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Politicians enthusiastically spin everything. Or reinvent the vernacular to soften the lie.


12 posted on 09/05/2018 6:34:17 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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I wonder if this recent surge of articles (and likely many more to come) saying a “blue wave” is coming for certain will make Dems complacent. After all, why make the effort to vote if it’s going to be a landslide anyway?


13 posted on 09/05/2018 6:36:57 AM PDT by luv2ski
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Apparently they can’t envision the crowds at the Trump rallies.


14 posted on 09/05/2018 6:38:51 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Yes like a 4.2 GDP now predicted to be 4.7% 56% of voters say Democrats out of step. NO WHITES NEED APPLY sigsn on Dem HQs, Sanctuary cities raising taxes open borders promises to impeach President Trump and free stuff for all what’s there to stop them?


15 posted on 09/05/2018 6:45:05 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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Confidence? Then why are they acting so desperate?


16 posted on 09/05/2018 7:05:06 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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Yup... And queen Hillary will be reinstated as President as soon as they do the recount. LOL


17 posted on 09/05/2018 7:08:02 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Ok, name me an election where they don’t say this. But let’s get by the latest “democrat victory inevitable, why even bother to hold the election” media campaign and apply some logic.

Might the democrats retake the house? Sure? History dictates the party of a first term President doesn’t do well in mid-terms.

But unlike prior elections where the GOP lost control of Congress (culture of corruption, Iraq War unpopularity, etc.) I don’t see that the GOP has stumbled horribly. The economy is good and Trump is leading a movement. Sure the congressional GOP has not gotten behind him enough, but they are largely backing him by instigating this phony dossier entrapment. Again, they could do more but I don’t sense a “punish the party” mood from GOP voters.

From what I can see, the entire basis for the current “blue wave” story is that the voters are soooooo disgusted with Trump, that they can’t wait to vote democrat and have him impeached. In other words, the left assumes that the independents and even many in the GOP share their irrational hatred for Trump. I see no democrat policy initiatives that are popular, no platform whatsoever from the democrats. I only see an arrogant assumption that everyone agrees with them in hatred, echoed by their media propaganda machine.

Put differently, in the last two years, what have the democrats done to regain the working class voters who once supported them? These are the same voters who turned on them and gave us President Trump?

The “everyone hates Trump” theory just doesn’t jive with what my eyes tell me. Trump is still packing rallies and his approval rating is doing well. Does he have coattails? I would have said no until the democrats gave him coattails. By talking impeachment the democrats have hurt themselves by linking even the most unpopular GOP congressperson with Trump’s survival. They have also, I believe shaken some complacency from the GOP base.


18 posted on 09/05/2018 7:17:48 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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It’s all an act to demoralize right wing people so they don’t bother voting.

Make it be the opposite. Make it motivate more normals to vote this midterm.


19 posted on 09/05/2018 7:19:05 AM PDT by Boomer
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Building a narrative


20 posted on 09/05/2018 7:20:20 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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