Posted on 10/11/2018 9:28:58 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
What Cook calls a "vacuum" resulting from "the inability or unwillingness of Washington to deal with so many problems," I call "federalism," but most policy, and certainly most conservative victories, occur at the state level. It is absolutely critical to anyone who cares about liberty that we hold onto as many state governments as possible.
they’re backtracking to CYA...the national blue wave is now just going to be a blue wave in the states...
This guy made POLITICO’s list of “worst political predictions of 2016” with multiple entries.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/the-worst-political-predictions-of-2016-214555
They know it too, which is why they pulled the record of their abysmal predictions off the web: http://cookpolitical.com/story/10113
But the Wayback Machine did not forget: https://web.archive.org/web/20161113073336/www.cookpolitical.com/story/10113
I don’t see us losing that many seats. REally don’t.
Cook’s final 2016 election prediction:
Hillary Clinton: 278 electoral votes
Donald Trump: 214 electoral votes
Democrats will pick up five to seven Senate seats.
Just sayin’.
Charlie Cook & Larry Sabato & many other pollsters and pundits have nary a clue as to the reality of the American voters. Oh...they know what’s about to happen, but....they will try their utmost to make things look bad for Republicans. Of course Cook covers his butt, by yapping about the states, rather then the Federal government Elections.
Bottom line: The Republicans will win & hold both the House & the Senate. Cook chooses to remain mum on the Feds, so he won’t have egg all over his face on the evening of Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2018!!!
Not going to happen. The Democrats aren’t liked or trusted.
Really tired of supposed conservative worshiping this guy as some kind of “genius” instead of the Leftist political propaganda bot he actually his.
See his 2016 prediction? Did equally badly in 2014.
The blue wave will be laughed about for years as they seem to win one single extra House seat, and lose six Senate seats.
Another guy wrong more than he’s right.
It appears Cook is using gathered data that was pertinent prior to the Kavanaugh episode. The dynamic has changed, and voting fervor is massively increased on the GOP side.
The fact that he uses Pew as a source......
“Republicans have 11 governorships that The Cook Political Report rates as Toss-Up or worse for the GOP, Democrats have one”
“I expect net gains for Democrats in governorships of between six and a dozen”
Do the arithmetic. Based on the first assertion, the second is overly optimistic, to say the least. He may as well have said “between six and 100”. Six seems more plausible, and a dozen doesn’t seem at all plausible.
Well if l am going by what it looks like here in Michigan the Rats are a lock for Governor and Senator. Trump carried Michigan just barely but he did and the state is doing pretty well under GOP control but according to every poll the Rats have a lock , not even close.
Guy’s a joke. He will say whatever his fiscal masters tell him to say. He is a democratic mob slave.
People keep banking on Trump’s win as being the paradigm for all elections now. It isn’t.
There’s going to be shock amongst the kneejerk “Dems can’t win” group.
Sabato’s career should have been over after he made himself part of the George All “macaca” story.
Charlie Cook is a fraud. His 2014 and 2016 predictions were as useless as used tissue paper.
He is a hard core Lib .
The guy is a Dem joke .
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