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The midterms will come down to the 'Enthusiasm Factor'.

Are Republicans fired-up to vote because Trump keeps winning?

Or are Democrats fired-up because they know this is their last chance to stop Trump?

Special elections have been a mixed bag. There has been no definitive trend so I'll refrain from making any predictions other than urban liberal stronghold will vote Democrat and middle America will vote Republican.

It will all come down to who votes and why.

Don't take a Red Wave as a given.

Cockiness leads to complacency.

Hillary and the Democrats were cocky in 2016 and look what happened to them.

1 posted on 10/07/2018 7:18:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Where are our October Surprises? Time to start breaking them out. Keep the fire going.


2 posted on 10/07/2018 7:21:21 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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Dems could retake the House but everything they want to do will die in a GOP Senate.

They have to ask themselves if it’s still worth it.


3 posted on 10/07/2018 7:21:38 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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The Dems. lost cause Hillary was kooky. They are now looking kooky again. The media is pleased to have the image of being kooky. The Dems. would win more seats if they at least had some common sense. The jump around and scream like they are being bitten with bedbugs. They cannot change their kooky image now!


4 posted on 10/07/2018 7:23:07 AM PDT by FreedBird
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The Senate confirms the judges, so if the GOP is only going to hold one of the two chambers, it’s better if it’s that one.


6 posted on 10/07/2018 7:25:18 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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Right.....It’s better to lower expectations at this stage of the game.

But I dont believe 2016 Hillary was “cocky.” She was complacent b/c:

<><> Obama put the entire US intel apparat at her disposal,

<><> the media was doing all the oppo research on Trump,

<><> the Clintons bought off everything in sight...

<><> and had billions to spend on the race.

What could possibly go wrong?

Smirk.


8 posted on 10/07/2018 7:28:50 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Rasussen had Trump, at 51% approval on Friday.

So hard to see much of a blue wave, given that the enthusiasm gap evaporated with Kavanaugh. There may be some Democrat pickups -- but there will be some Republican pickups, too.

9 posted on 10/07/2018 7:29:06 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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And when the republicans win the midterms, they’ll blame the Russians.


10 posted on 10/07/2018 7:30:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
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The enthusiasm factor for the Ds is a bunch of white “elite” talking to one another and trying to outdo one another in sounding whacky. They have spent a month ignoring their non-white base and instead arguing about which white liberal is more important than anyone else on Earth.

Can they pivot to the black vote or hispanic vote maybe but those two groups are just hangers on at the moment and truth be told the feelings of Alyssa Milan matter more than some poor colored person’s.


11 posted on 10/07/2018 7:30:52 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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“The Republican Party does three things: cut taxes, kill terrorists and confirm judges,” said Matt Gorman......

Funny, about a month before the elections, the Democrat party claims the same thing!


13 posted on 10/07/2018 7:31:20 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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"The Democrat Party: "The Party of CRIME!"

And "The Party of the rabid MOB!"

Yes I believe the Republicans are more than motivated to turn out to vote come November 6th. Hopefully in MASSIVE numbers that will more than compensate for all of the DEMONcRAT illegal voting tactics.

14 posted on 10/07/2018 7:31:22 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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I don't want it, but 2 years of dim control of the House guarantees Trumps reelection.
17 posted on 10/07/2018 7:32:56 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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Keep telling yourself the Blue Wave is coming Dems, you might even start believing it. Money and votes are not correlated in any way.
19 posted on 10/07/2018 7:33:56 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To WV Freepers....

Is Manchin saved with his “YES” vote on Kavanaugh?


20 posted on 10/07/2018 7:35:37 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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Any shot at the Dems taking back the house died with the Kavanaugh Fiasco, and the Senate was Never in Play... this article is full of delusional pipe dreams


21 posted on 10/07/2018 7:37:31 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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I am just itchin’ to get to the polls! No complacency here! Son and DIL can’t wait to vote either!


24 posted on 10/07/2018 7:42:33 AM PDT by sneakers (It's not the democraTIC party! It's the demoCRAT party!)
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Dems are delusion.

They’re NOT going to take the Senate.

They probably won’t take the House, even though history says they should.


25 posted on 10/07/2018 7:42:49 AM PDT by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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How popular will Dianne Feinstein be with democrats on November 7 when pollsters say her failed Ford-Kavanaugh scam is the reason the Blue Wave didn’t show up on election day?


26 posted on 10/07/2018 7:43:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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After the last 2-3 weeks of the dems showing who they are in the Senate, I think that any poll now showing dems winning is suspect.


28 posted on 10/07/2018 7:46:00 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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Hey, Max. I see you’ve been snooping on my posts on FR. No, I like the original better - a red tsunami.


29 posted on 10/07/2018 7:47:02 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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so the voters want to throw it all away and vote for the Crazy Commie Dems ? nope


31 posted on 10/07/2018 7:49:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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