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What if the Republicans Win Everything Again?
The NewYork Times ^ | October 19,2018 | By David Leonhardt

Posted on 10/20/2018 9:32:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk

The end of Robert Mueller’s investigation. The loss of health insurance for several million people. New laws that make it harder to vote. More tax cuts for the rich. More damage to the environment. A Republican Party molded even more in the image of President Trump.

These are among the plausible consequences if the Republicans sweep the midterm elections and keep control of both the House and Senate. And don’t fool yourself. That outcome, although not the most likely one, remains possible. The last couple of weeks of polling have shown how it could happen.

Voters who lean Republican — including whites across the South — could set aside their disappointment with Trump and vote for Republican congressional candidates. Voters who lean left — including Latinos and younger adults — could turn out in low numbers, as they usually do in midterm elections. The Republicans’ continuing efforts to suppress turnout could also swing a few close elections.

No matter what, Democrats will probably win the popular vote in the House elections, for the first time since 2012. Trump, after all, remains unpopular. But the combination of gerrymandering and the concentration of Democratic voters in major cities means that a popular-vote win won’t automatically translate into a House majority.

In the Senate, the election already seems to be slipping away from the Democrats. Several of this year’s close Senate races happen to involve Democrats defending seats in red states. As a result, Republicans may expand their current 51-49 majority, making it easier for them to win close votes on legislation and nominations.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018imidterms; chickenlittle; classwarfare; davidleonhardt; doomed; fearmongering; fud; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; propaganda; teotwawki; theskyisfalling; winning
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1 posted on 10/20/2018 9:32:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
What if the Republicans Win Everything Again?

Somebody is going to get tired of winning...not.

2 posted on 10/20/2018 9:34:30 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Two-door Ford suffered unrepairable damage after a head-on collision with facts & truth.)
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New laws that make it harder to vote

HAR HAR HAR. It won't be any more difficult for me - a USA citizen - to vote

3 posted on 10/20/2018 9:34:48 AM PDT by BRL
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To: Hojczyk

The Dems will increase taxes, open the borders further, conduct partisan witch hunts, outlaw men, and trash the economy.


4 posted on 10/20/2018 9:35:31 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Hojczyk

Good jobs= health insurance. That’s typically how Americans have acquired health insurance in the past a-holes.


5 posted on 10/20/2018 9:36:15 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: Hojczyk

Dem’s internal polling must be terrible. Third or fourth article like this I’ve seen, just in the last two days.


6 posted on 10/20/2018 9:36:28 AM PDT by philippa
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To: Hojczyk

#alternateuniverse


7 posted on 10/20/2018 9:36:29 AM PDT by digger48
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To: BRL

The Dems have a lot of Gaul saying the GOP would make it harder to vote given the Dems’ intimidation tactics.


8 posted on 10/20/2018 9:36:45 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Hojczyk

It is all the Republican and Trump’s fault!!! Not one word about Democrat party out of step with Americans.


9 posted on 10/20/2018 9:37:11 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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“Laws that would make it harder to vote”

For whom??? Eligible US citizens are not in any way burdened by requirements to show ID. That is such a BS argument.


10 posted on 10/20/2018 9:37:40 AM PDT by ScottinVA (GOP: The party of jobs. Democrats: The party of mobs.)
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To: NautiNurse

Gimme a W——gimme an I-———gimme a an N—————/


11 posted on 10/20/2018 9:37:58 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Hojczyk

Umm, I’m thinking David Leonhardt should be placed on suicide watch....


12 posted on 10/20/2018 9:38:04 AM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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Russia again?

No wait, racists and homophobes and the superstious middle class voters voted against their own financial interest again.

And wimen voted the way their husbands TOLD them to again.


13 posted on 10/20/2018 9:39:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: philippa

Methinks you are right. The “blue wave” confidence seems to be gone.


14 posted on 10/20/2018 9:39:52 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Hojczyk
Voters who lean Republican — including whites across the South

Leftists ALWAYS play this card not realizing how racist it makes them sound. I know plenty of black men and women who are thankful for Trump's economy and will vote Republican this year.

15 posted on 10/20/2018 9:40:26 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Hojczyk

Looking forward to the FR election night thread and complete media meltdown. Second best election ever coming up !


16 posted on 10/20/2018 9:42:20 AM PDT by Tadhg
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The end of Robert Mueller’s investigation. The loss of unaffordable health insurance for several million less than 1 million people. New laws that make it harder for dead people and illegal immigrants to vote. More tax cuts for the rich everyone. More damage to the environment growth for American manufacturing. A Republican Party molded even more in the image of President Trump.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks NY Slimes!

17 posted on 10/20/2018 9:43:49 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: philippa

[[Third or fourth article like this I’ve seen, just in the last two days.]]

Get used to it- we’re smack dab in the middle of the lbieral’s “We’re all gonna perish because of republicans” season


18 posted on 10/20/2018 9:44:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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“The end of Robert Mueller’s investigation. The loss of health insurance for several million people. New laws that make it harder to vote. More tax cuts for the rich. More damage to the environment. A Republican Party molded even more in the image of President Trump.”

Sounds like a bunch of winning things happening to me! And that bit about a GOP molded into the image of President Trump is the best of all.


19 posted on 10/20/2018 9:44:32 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Hojczyk

The impotent raging by the leftists will be even more over the top? That will be fun to watch from a distance.


20 posted on 10/20/2018 9:44:33 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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