Compared to his recent R counterparts, he’s doing quite a bit better. Not great, but still appreciably better. What happens if Trump can peel off 15-20% AA vote from the Ds due to his policies. That’s a bad sign for the Ds.
Robert Francis O'Rourke is a former San Antonio councilman. He has no real political experience, yet the media portrays him as a Kennedy-like politician. Trump will kill this neophyte with his calls to abolish ICE, to have Medicare for all, free this and free that. He is just another naïve Progressive lunatic who will have no chance to win a national election against Trump. He is too radical. Please Ds, stake your future on this guy. That's a winning proposition.
Unwarranted support. It just tells you how desperate the Ds are to find a viable candidate for 2020. They don't have one.
With Rafael Cruz, I'm sure of it!Where was Beto's father on November 22nd, 1963?
Dude, you’ve got it all wrong. O’Rourke doesn’t scare me or most Rs I know in the least. If he had beaten Cruz, I might take him more seriously. He didn’t. His positions are too extreme for most of America. The coastal elites might love him, but the Midwest, South, Mountain West, and most of the SW will not.
The House elections tend to be more local than Senate elections. If anything, Ds should be worried. They lost seats by trying to repudiate Trump. The Kavanaugh fiasco cost Ds big-time. IN, MO, ND, FL, and MT say hello.
I think Mike Braun would have beaten Joe Donnelly in deep red Indiana even if Kavanaugh would have never come along.Donnelly was Indianas first Senator to be denied a second term since 1946.Ray Willis was the incumbent Repulican that year but he was beaten by William Jenner for re nomination at the state convention.Indiana nominated Senate and Gubernatorial candidates at state conventions until the 1970s.Maybe states should go back to that way of nominating candidates since primary turnouts are usually weak.Bill Jenner served two terms then retired in 1958,having been a close Senate ally of Joe McCarthy.
Not so sure about that, if you believe the polls. Donnelly consistently polled ahead of Braun by 2-4% for months, but after the Kavanaugh fiasco, Braun and President Trump clubbed Donnelly on that issue continually. Donnelly voted against Kavanaugh. It’s not like Donnelly was terribly unpopular, especially around Indy and South Bend. That issue hurt him bad, as did Donnelly’s vote against the tax cut.
The polls were way off,again.Nobody saw Braun winning by 10 points,as most of them had Donnelly as a slight favorite the day before the election.I will never believe the polls in any race again.The Dem party in Indiana is very weak,with the GOP having super majorities in both houses and the Dems picked up a whopping three seats out of 100 in the State House of Reps.O,and they gained one out of fifty in the State Senate,were wiped out badly in seven of nine House seats,lost the races for State Auditor,Secretary of State and Treasurer.The table was set ,for Braun .The Dems are weak in Indiana and they have won only 3 of the last 16 Senate races,and 4 of the last 13 Governors contests.Evan Bayh gave them four of the seven victories they have in the last four decades.They need to burn it down and start over.
Indiana is a Red State but will vote Democratic if a good candidate is on the ticket, especially for state and county positions.
Extraordinary economy under BHO???? Record unemployment, businesses closing doors, welfare roles exploding, extension of unemployment to two years....Yeah, sure. TIC
The polls weren't way off again, they weren't way off last time either. People who post shit like this have no grasp of how statistics work. Polling last night was incredibly accurate on the whole. 538 batted >94% as of last night on congressional race, considering how many were 1 or 2 pount races that's insanely good.
People acting like any of this was a referendum on Kavanaugh is just confirmation bias at this point. One of the states you list literally had a candidate win by more than he had in his previous two elections. TN had a candidate tank after he said he would vote to confirm him. On the whole nationwide he was an unpopular nominee. I'm not expressing an opinion on his confirmation but acting like there was a trend in the data as a result means you made a decision before looking at the data. The only state it may have had a legitimate impact in was IN, which is still incredibly shaky considering where Donnellys numbers suffered wasn't in the center.
Unemployment rate was 4.7% when Obama left office, look at facts instead of what the propaganda fed you.
Braun did win by ONLY seven points but I still think the pollsters were off on that one.
Yes, specifically polls were off in Indiana although the late polls on 538 at least looked like it was shifting but I didn't expect 7 either.
Thank you.I just meant they were off in Indiana.Do you know who Maria Cantwell is?She is a Democrat and Indy native who just got elected to her fourth term as Senator from Washington.I knew her Dad,Paul Cantwell who served the Indy City Council for years .Since she wanted to be elected as a Dem,she was smart to move out of Indiana.
I do not, but I agree it's just the reality of the situation.
MA and MD were much harder than OH, IMO. DeWine had strong name recognition and Trump won OH rather handily in 2016. I have lots of family in OH. Most people I know back there hated Kasich after 2016. He was so angry that he lost to Trump, a man who he felt was an inferior candidate. Kasich has the charisma of a turnip and a huge ego. Most Ohioans I know like DeWine much better than Kasich, at least for now.
Another freezing cold take. You’re really bad at this but this is what happens when left wing cult propaganda rots a brain out.
