Posted on 11/14/2018 8:35:26 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Did Democrats make gains in suburbs and rural communities?
If so why?
There are many questions to be asked.
What messages did they get that determined how they voted?
What 'narratives' did they believe that caused them to vote as they did?
The way I see it, most Republican candidates just flat out suck. They really need to up their game in that area.
Trump is not as popular in the suburbs as he is on FR.com
A majority of the candidate that got washed out sucked or were never trumpers.
Candidates who embraced Trump did better, way better
We have republicans who were publicly against the wall, and they lost. People want the wall, so those people in those races had no reason to vote.
I said, the silver lining to the mid terms house races, we flushed a lot of turds out of our party. 2020 we can run better candidates who will support President Trump
President Trump will be fine, he can still issue executive orders, he can still get conservative judges in, and other appointments.
If the house dems are just going to open 1000’s of investigations over nonsense, the moderates are going to be sick of that nonsense and will be willing to jump ship in 2020.
I say we let the dems shoot themselves in the foot here.
This illustrates one of the oldest rules of politics: It's always much easier to campaign when you're out of power.
Run candidate who don’t hate him in the ‘burbs, I think we would have done better
Also don’t run sucky candidates who can’t campaign their way out of a wet paper beg
A number of these areas where Dems won from Repubs were, IIRC, due to the retiring Repubs who did not like Trump to begin with. Likely not the only thing involved, but still something to be considered.
And when you are in power, you have to do something so you can run on it.
This may be true but it has nothing to do with the election results in most districts.
My GOP incumbent representative was a "never Trumper," and he lost by about 2-3 points.
If a Republican who embraced Trump ran for this seat, he would have lost by at least 30 points.
Exactly. Think of the last two years as an enormous wasted opportunity for the Republican Party. I knew this was going to be a disaster for them as soon as they started passing those same stupid “continuing resolutions” to fund the U.S. government for most of the 2017-2018 term of Congress.
They are using non-citizen votes.
There is nothing stopping them.
it was a massive mistake to let as many republican representatives retire (26) in a midterm cycle.
I suspect a big part of it is millenials, indoctrinated into socialism from elementary school through college, are now having children and moving to the suburbs.
The Republican brand needs to be dug out of the closet beneath all of the liberal appeasement packages and broadly marketed across many platforms. The media, entertainment and academic communities are all full-on socialists and promoting its “advantages” 24/7.
That is what we need to counteract to get younger Americans and immigrants to understand that self-government has never happened anywhere before or anywhere else. If it is destroyed here, the last stand fails and tyranny will prevail worldwide.
Per the CIA World Book, there are a lot of countries listed with a “Republican” form of government, but most of them are outright socialist countries trying to balance between mob rule and tyranny. That is why their citizens are trying to break into our country to achieve prosperity.
They don’t know what self-government and individual sovereignty are. They want the prosperity it generates, but have no clue that is the cause of success. That is the message that we need to get out. These younger folks and immigrants do not know. They must be taught or they will replace our republic with their banana republics, which our youth also revere.
But they didn’t lose as many seats as the Dems did in 2010. The Dems lost 63 seats.
See you make liberal comments.
46, not 26!!
Bingo.
They won more seats than they have in any election cycle going back to the Nixon days.
This was not deep dissatisfaction of President Trump by the majority of the electorate. This was the Deep State moving into high gear, a dry run for unseating Donald J. Trump by “any means possible”, legality or morality be damned.
The dry runs made in a number of close races, which fell to the Democrat due to “special case” ballot counting, ballots that would not have mattered because of an ineligible voter, late submission, or an “overvote” or “blemish”, that should have been ruled invalid, are accepted once the intent of the voter has been “divined”.
“Emergency” late action on “early” voting, as was the case in Maricopa County, Arizona, was a clear indication of fraudulent intent.
The repeated instances of ballot clerk “errors” in both Broward and Palm Beach counties in Florida, which might have been much less obvious had there not been a pattern already established, cast great doubt on the integrity of ANY election held in those precincts, having imported all the very worst of fraud practices from New York City, and applying them for DECADES.
It’s not 46, even if the Rats won every single seat still not called.
At best, it’s 40. It’s most likely 38 or 39.
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