Positive perspective on the midterm election

The liberals and mainstream media wanted everybody to believe that in 2018 there would be a Democratic tsunami wave. There wasn’t.

In the 1994 midterm elections Democratic president Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats, 8 Senate seats and 10 governorships. That was a tsunami.

In the 2010 midterm elections Democratic president Barack Obama lost 63 House seats, 6 Senate seats and 29 governorships. That was an even bigger tsunami. In the 2018 midterm elections Republican President Donald Trump lost a just over a couple dozen House seats (confirming the historical precedents), expanded robustly his Senate seats, while the number of governorships remains split. More importantly, the president won governorship races in swing states Florida and Ohio, which will be extremely beneficial for his reelection in 2020.

o, no tsunami in 2018. Rather than a blue wave, this was a “green wave.” The Democrats pumped-in extraordinary amounts of money to little or no avail.

The Democrats spent an enormous amount of money with few results. Republicans should be able to counter this next time.

Most of the Republicans who retired were never Trump RINOS who hated President Trump and wanted to undermine his presidency. Paul Ryan is gone. Hopefully, the new Republican leader will be more honest, more effective and support the president.

The larger majority in the Senate should last for 6 years at least. The backstabbers and prima donnas in the Senate like Flake and Corker are gone.

Great post.

And I’ll say this ONE more time, lol

Said it in two other posts already.

You have to go back almost NINETY years to find the last time FOUR incumbents of the other party lost their senate seats!!

I think as of this morning it was definitely three and likely four.

Don’t know where it stands now

Right now, today, pronto the head of the RNC needs to on the carpet in front of the man explaining how we lost the House. It is probably not her fault but in speaking aloud the reasons we lost the new plan for taking it can go into operation by the middle of NEXT week.

It starts with candidate recruitment and fund raising. There were too many close races lost in GOP Districts. Let’s roll this back next cycle.

I'd look at this very differently, and I think the author of this piece (along with many Freepers) makes an amateurish mistake in mischaracterizing this election.

1. The GOP's biggest obstacle this year wasn't the historical trend of mid-term elections. It was the 40+ Republican House incumbents who were vacating their seats. Incumbency is powerful in Congressional elections, and this put a whole bunch of seats in play. It's impossible to defend that many open seats.

2. This election may have been about Trump in many ways, but not the way we might instinctively think. There's way too much positive spin here on FR today about all the "RINOs" who are no longer in office. These people aren't RINOs because they refuse to toe the party line, folks. They're RINOs because they represent "purple" or even "blue" districts in liberal states. Maybe the party is more pure today with these RINOs on their way out, but there's no way in hell a Trump clone is ever going to win in those districts.

3. Along the lines of #2 ... The Democrats came into 2018 with a clear strategy to win the House, and they executed it to perfection. Starting in 2017, they concentrated their efforts on all the GOP House seats in districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that the GOP lost at least 90% of those races this year.

4. If the GOP wants to win back control of the House, they have to come up with a game plan that has broad appeal across a lot of different regions and demographic groups. This was the amazing needle they threaded in 2016, when they won the White House with a populist agenda and yet still maintained control of both houses of Congress despite facing a daunting Senate map with many vulnerable Republicans. A "Rust Belt" MAGA agenda is not going to appeal to affluent suburban voters. The MAGA agenda is fine, but what is the GOP going to hold out as a national strategy to win back suburban voters?

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