blackascoal
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Democrats win 8.8 million more votes in the midterms, worst in history
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Getin the ring
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Supreme Court Majority = "last vestige of power"
you really are a bitter nut-bag aren't you, reality escapes you
I'd say with the supreme court majority, the Senate majority, and the VETO pen, you might want to do some "clinging" yourself there buckwheat
It's like I'm talking to 6 year olds
Supreme Court Majority = "last vestige of power"
you really are a bitter nut-bag aren't you, reality escapes you
I'd say with the supreme court majority, the Senate majority, and the VETO pen, you might want to do some "clinging" yourself there buckwheat
It's like I'm talking to 6 year olds
You know, if Democrats win the Senate in 2020, which it looks like they will, and the White House, they can just add justices to the bench. There's nothing that says SCOTUS has to be 9 justices.
I'm not worried about the House majority. Conservatives will never win it again.
Republicans are also in a very weak position in the Senate in 2020, and Trump is in trouble electorally.
When January 2021 comes around, you'll check yourself into a hospital for that weird case of selective amnesia you'll suddenly be afflicted with.
blackascoal
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I won't bore you with facts, diagrams, projections, and data analysis that determines this to be a continuation of Obama's economy .. so I won't even mention it.
However, germane to this conversation, all the rosy stats and numbers you can come up with did not prevent republicans losing the popular vote by almost 9 million people .. in spite of republican gerrymandering and documented evidence of their voter suppression attempts.
Question: Republicans controlled all 3 levers of government, the economy is still relatively strong, gerrymandering in full effect ... How in the hell do you end up losing the popular vote in historical proportions? HOW?
How is it the democrats now have complete control of ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA when just two years ago it was still solidly red and Reagan World.
How did that happen?
Getin the ring
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let me explain something to you,
First it was Trump is in trouble with the Russia investigation, then the Dems win the house in the mid-terms, bad news for trump
now it's "wait till 2020 when the Dems win the Senate.
let me guess, two years from now it will be "just wait till 2024 when Trump is gone"
8 years of your life wasted because Hillary lost.
You do know she's home in her bathrobe laughing at you like the rest of us are, right nut-bag.
Your problem is you don't know when to shut up, this isn't your league
you really don't realize how stupid "The Democrats have COMPLETE control of Orange County California" sounds, do you?
could a liberal please explain that to him how stupid that sounds?
and another thing, what exactly does having control of the house mean to a nut-bag,
anyone?
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blackascoal
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.. and by 2020 progressives will have an even stronger hand within the party.
Increasing the number on the SC only makes sense, and they will push it.
blackascoal
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Republicans lost a House seat in deep red Utah as Mia Love loses to a democrat.
Oopps, there goes the republicans only black congresswoman.
blackascoal
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I defend your right to completely ignore 2020 until the last day if you like.
Life is Golden
It's Morning in America Again
They are completely delusional. They've lost SCOTUS and think they are winning.Supreme Court Majority = "last vestige of power"
you really are a bitter nut-bag aren't you, reality escapes you
I'd say with the supreme court majority, the Senate majority, and the VETO pen, you might want to do some "clinging" yourself there buckwheat
It's like I'm talking to 6 year olds
Can't make this shit up....
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
gosh......and they still lost seats in the Senate and underperformed in the House.....that must really suck......
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
wrong troll.....
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
Hello anatta,
What good is GDP head for 3%+ when Deficit is headed for 200%+?
Have you checked your GDP/Debt ratio lately?
Ever since that tax cut for the rich it has been rising at an unsustainable rate.
The economy is not paying for the tax cut.
You guys said the economy would pay for the tax cut.
It didn't.
Now we REALLY have to tax the rich even more, to make up for lost ground, and to get back to where we would have been if we had done the right thing and hiked their taxes a year ago.
What good is GDP head for 3%+ when Deficit is headed for 200%+?
Have you checked your GDP/Debt ratio lately?
Ever since that tax cut for the rich it has been rising at an unsustainable rate.
The economy is not paying for the tax cut.
You guys said the economy would pay for the tax cut.
It didn't.
Now we REALLY have to tax the rich even more, to make up for lost ground, and to get back to where we would have been if we had done the right thing and hiked their taxes a year ago.
cawacko
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A lot of confidence ITT that 2020 is a done deal.
blackascoal
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There was a lot of confidence that the House would flip .. and it did.
On the Senate side, democrats came within a few percentage points of winning Senate seats in the deep south .. thus flipping the Senate.
Besides, predicting the horse race and who's running is both productive and entertaining.
floridafan
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All you got to talk about is the past, 8 years ago. Times have changed and they are changing fast
floridafan
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Would you tell us about all those good paying jobs while the middle class continues to suffer. There is no way GDP is headed for over 3% but keep wishing and while you are at it maybe you can come up with a way to pay off the massive debt Trump is accumulating.
blackascoal
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The 2018 Midterms Were a Solid Democratic Win, Not a Split Decision
Democrats have gained at least 37 net House seats, 14 more than they needed to gain control of the chamber; of the four races still unresolved, they lead in one district (New York’s 22nd) and trail in three (Georgia’s Seventh, New York’s 27th, and Utah’s Fourth). A 38-seat shift would represent the fourth largest in midterms in the last half-century (Democrats won 48 seats in 1974, while Republicans won 52 seats in 1994 and 63 in 2010), and seven more than Democrats won the last time they flipped control of the House, in 2006. When it’s all said and done Democrats will probably have won the national House popular vote by a bit more than 7 points; Republicans won it by just under one percent in 2016, and by a little under 6 percent in 2014.
Democrats also climbed out of a very deep hole they had dug for themselves in state elections. They picked up seven net governorships out of 36 on the ballot, giving them 23, even though they lost close, winnable races in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Ohio. They also won control of seven state legislative chambers, and made some progress toward busting up Republican “trifecta” control of state governments (they’ll have another chance in 2020):
Entering the 2018 midterm election, Republicans had a +14 state trifecta lead: of 34 states with trifectas, 26 were Republican and eight were Democratic. But after the votes were counted, Democrats increased their trifecta total with a net gain of six, and Republicans declined to 23 trifectas (a net loss of three). States with divided government (i.e., no trifecta for either major party) declined to 13.
Far under the radar screen, Democrats flipped four state attorney general offices, and two secretaries of State.
All in all, it’s impossible to call this midterm anything other than a solid Democratic win, once you contextualize what happened in the Senate and don’t get too hung up on expectations or should-woulda-coulda contests. Facing a highly polarized electorate and structural GOP advantages in both the House (gerrymandering and more efficient GOP voter distribution) and the Senate (the aforementioned crazy landscape), Democrats did well across the board, and without the usual midterm qualifier of low turnout (2018 produced the highest midterm turnout since 1914). There is a decidedly less one-sided atmosphere in Washington and in many states, and Democrats are well positioned for an even more fateful election two years from now.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/2018-midterms-democratic-win.html
Democrats have gained at least 37 net House seats, 14 more than they needed to gain control of the chamber; of the four races still unresolved, they lead in one district (New York’s 22nd) and trail in three (Georgia’s Seventh, New York’s 27th, and Utah’s Fourth). A 38-seat shift would represent the fourth largest in midterms in the last half-century (Democrats won 48 seats in 1974, while Republicans won 52 seats in 1994 and 63 in 2010), and seven more than Democrats won the last time they flipped control of the House, in 2006. When it’s all said and done Democrats will probably have won the national House popular vote by a bit more than 7 points; Republicans won it by just under one percent in 2016, and by a little under 6 percent in 2014.
Democrats also climbed out of a very deep hole they had dug for themselves in state elections. They picked up seven net governorships out of 36 on the ballot, giving them 23, even though they lost close, winnable races in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Ohio. They also won control of seven state legislative chambers, and made some progress toward busting up Republican “trifecta” control of state governments (they’ll have another chance in 2020):
Entering the 2018 midterm election, Republicans had a +14 state trifecta lead: of 34 states with trifectas, 26 were Republican and eight were Democratic. But after the votes were counted, Democrats increased their trifecta total with a net gain of six, and Republicans declined to 23 trifectas (a net loss of three). States with divided government (i.e., no trifecta for either major party) declined to 13.
Far under the radar screen, Democrats flipped four state attorney general offices, and two secretaries of State.
All in all, it’s impossible to call this midterm anything other than a solid Democratic win, once you contextualize what happened in the Senate and don’t get too hung up on expectations or should-woulda-coulda contests. Facing a highly polarized electorate and structural GOP advantages in both the House (gerrymandering and more efficient GOP voter distribution) and the Senate (the aforementioned crazy landscape), Democrats did well across the board, and without the usual midterm qualifier of low turnout (2018 produced the highest midterm turnout since 1914). There is a decidedly less one-sided atmosphere in Washington and in many states, and Democrats are well positioned for an even more fateful election two years from now.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/2018-midterms-democratic-win.html