Only 35% of voters in GA 6th district viewed trump favorably. Democrats still lost.

[Darth Omar]

Trump's approval rating on Nov. 6th was 38% lol.

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it could also be argued that one of the main reasons clinton failed is because her entire message was merely "i am not trump"

it should be clear now that voters are going to need a coherent message on what democrats actually want to proactively do for the country.

That was part of it and could have worked for someone other than her. They are still shell shocked that Meees Peeeegy and the Access Hollywood tapes didn't bring him down.

Remember the Access Hollywood tapes came out hours after the first Wiki dump. They were probably going to hold it until right before Election Day to inflict maximum damage.

Any other Republican would have been ruined with those Access Hollywood tapes. But not Trump

All he does is WIN WIN WIN

PUSSY GRABBERS UNITE

[PostmodernProphet]

How is the fact that GA 6th is deep red a "talking point."

perhaps because every liberal media source in the country made it a talking point for the last two months.......

[PostmodernProphet]

And why is arrogance a downfall for liberals, but joyously celebrated for Trump & the right?

its a question of merit.......

[PostmodernProphet]

it could also be argued that one of the main reasons clinton failed is because her entire message was merely "i am not trump"

it should be clear now that voters are going to need a coherent message on what democrats actually want to proactively do for the country.

and it will have to be sufficient to overcome their memory of what they DID to the country.......

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This is why you were so wrong about the 2016 election. You are incapable of challenging your own assumptions

You have buried your head in the sand and spout "the district was won by 30% since then 90s" as if it explains everything.

First of all districts aren't static entities. You are talking about a generation of people moving in and out.

Second you can't compare Tom Price's 30 point victory in 2016 where he virtually ran unopposed. Can you name his opponent? His opponent raised zero dollars.

Because you are not a nuanced thinker, you are missing the point that despite Tom Price winning by 30 points Trump only won by 1 point. That isn't insignificant. That means that this district isn't a straight party line district.

That is why the democrats made a play for it. If Price were still on the ticket, the dems wouldn't have even looked at it.

But history shows what an open seat is when any party has its best chance of flipping a seat to their side. The power of incumbency is enormous. Only a political neophyte wouldn't see that.


You are also being blinded by your cultural prejudice of the south. You see the entire south as the Clampetts. This is the northern suburbs of Atlanta. They are much more affluent and much more educated and not pro Trump. The kind of voters and district the democrats will need if they are going to flip the House.

Let me try to explain it a different way since you are hell bent in clinging to your "the republicans have won by 30 points for decades" line.

Let's say Clingy Thingy is running the DNC and he has to lay out a strategy for taking back the House of Representatives. How would you do it? Where would you target your efforts?

Well you start by eliminating democrat and republican seats you know are safe.

Next you look for your opponents vulnerabilities

1) I look for traditionally democrat districts that may have flipped by a fluke. Could be six of those

2) then I want to look for districts where the GOP really does well, but Trump isn't popular. Good hunting ground to put GOP on defensive

3) district where GOP member is unpopular and Trump is unpopular

Are you going to spend your time and money flipping a district where the GOP member and Trump are popular? You could but it would be an unwise use of resources

GA06 was #2. That is why the democrat party went all in to win it and they lost. It was an unmitigated disaster for them. Their entire strategy has been anti Trump all the time. It failed

But you are incapable of challenging your own beliefs so you cling to this worn out line of "the GOP has won by 30 since the 90s" without any context or insight.

You are politically ignorant and that is why I run circles around you

Hey, dummy - it wasn't just one election that Republicans won there by 30%+.

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And I'll say it again: Democrats won the 1st 7 special elections after Obama got elected. Then, things didn't go so well.

Just as Dems saw too much potential in GA's 6th, righties are seeing too much vindication in the aftermath. There were a lot of factors at play this week - Trump was one, which is why the election there was MUCH closer than it usually is for the Democrat. But a lot of things kept them from getting over the top. The bottom line actually seems to be that he was still just too liberal for that district.

But I don't really care. Sing a song & do a little dance, and think that special elections in red territories mean that Trump is beloved, and that the GOP's majority will last FOREVAH.

[blackvegetable]

Let this be your first lesson from professor Grind for the midterms of 2018:

You need to stop jacking off over trump approval ratings. For the following reasons:

1) They do not correlate 1:1 with regards to trump approval ratings vs. local candidate

2) A republican may feel trump isn't doing enough (and thus not approve), but that doesn't mean they want to vote democrat.

I see liberals jerking off every day on here about trumps approval ratings, 3 years out from 2020, even when obama was 39% in 2011 and won re-election a year later.

It's time to end the predictable talking point that "Well duh georgia is deep red, of course dems aren't expected to win"

It turns out that even with 35% approval rating of likely voters, and one of the biggest spending operations of all time, democrats still couldn't pull off the victory.

This was an affluent suburb of georgia, the exact target dems are looking for in midterm 2018. Trumps approval rating was very low. Dem spending was sky high. Yet You lost.

Democrats still have much work to do at their persisting resisting meetings.

3 years is a long time. So is 1 year.

And as I posted in another thread, democrats have had some of their worst fundraising in a decade. So much for that resistance you pussy hat wearing degenerates

Stop being so arrogant, it's what cost you the election last time. It's time liberals sat down and had some humble pie. Your arrogance will be your downfall otherwise.

How about posting the spending totals....

Just the numbers, please...

[blackvegetable]

and it will have to be sufficient to overcome their memory of what they DID to the country.......

Let's take a look....here's total nonfarm payrolls and real GDP under Obama



Let's see the same for the last POTUS for whom you cast 2 enthusiastic votes...

[PostmodernProphet]

Let's take a look....here's total nonfarm payrolls and real GDP under Obama

you realize that most of that increase was needed just to get him back to where he started, right?......compare the numbers for 2008 and 2014......

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you realize that most of that increase was needed just to get him back to where he started, right?......

One of the most hilarious things that you do is blame Obama for the freefall he inherited when he took office.

[PostmodernProphet]

One of the most hilarious things that you do is blame Obama for the freefall he inherited when he took office.

I've never done that......but I blame him for taking six years to recover.......