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and I believe the court determined tneir gerrymandering illegal
and its going to end it
virginia may just be big time blue soon
Virginia flips 14 seats blue in biggest Democratic pick-up since 1899
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and I believe the court determined tneir gerrymandering illegal
and its going to end it
virginia may just be big time blue soon
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They're going to get shellacked in the midterms regardless - but it's because of Trump.
Lets be clear. Republicans will not go to bat for Trump. They will not eat a shit sandwich because Trump tells them to. The Obamacare repeal bill fell apart because it was a SHIT SANDWICH. Tax reform will suffer the same fate. After which point, Republicans will collectively throw Trump overboard like the worthless piece of shit he was from the beginning. He's not a leader, he has no policy agenda beyond nationalism and being an asshole. Republicans are not loyal to him.
Obamacare repeal was killed by inability to coalesce around a concept - it wasn't #neverTrumps
( except from your hero John McCain)..
Tax reform is a work in progress -when was the last time anyone tried to simply the code?
Like under Reagan? it's extremely easy to carve out exemptions -but difficult for reform and simplification.
The Republicans are establishment weasels who have to actually do something besides expand government.
DC inertia is the opposite. More taxes/more spending/more expansion.
No one said draining the Swamp is going to be a simple task - but it has to be done.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
it's never worked in Canada.......there the only thing that's ever worked is adopting a French facade......
Virginia has been a blue state for the last decade.....another fact that seems to elude you....
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Battleground state in every election.
Hillary......90.5 % of votes in DC....49.7 % in state (more than Trump)
Obama.....92.5 % of votes in DC....52.6 % in state
Obama.....90.9% of votes in DC.....51.1 % in state
Since the amendment's ratification, the District of Columbia has cast its electoral votes for the Democratic candidate in every election. A Republican has never been the District's Mayor, and the current Council has 10 Democrats and 2 Independents.
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
Trump is going end up doing more damage to the Republican party than Nixon.
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Why are you talking about DC?
He’s confused a lot.
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It was a pretty funny segway. We're talking about VA, a battleground state, and he posts #'s for DC, which no one would argue is anything but a strong Dem territory.
Rand Paul wouldn't go for the ACA because it didn't repeal the ACA it created ACA light, but through Paul's coaching Trump was able to kill the ACA by rescinding the unconstitutional executive order of the fascist black Nazi imperialist pig Obama who funded the ACA through subsidies which circumvented Congressional power of the purse.
Can I borrow your crystal ball sometime? Republicans are aligned behind tax reform.
The Trump administration is more conservative than Reagan, despite the obstructionist deep state the deregulation campaign of Trump has led to the best economy in decades:
NOV. 5, 2017, 2:00 A.M.
Despite the chaos, Trump has managed to push the most conservative agenda in a generation
A year into the Trump era, President Trump is living up to his advance billing as a “black swan” event for American politics — disrupting everything he touches. He has opened divisions and brought chaos to both parties, and the turmoil is not going to abate with the midterm election next year, no matter what the result. The GOP may never be the same, while a lurch further to the populist left by Democrats might be a formula for additional electoral disaster. The culture wars have gone thermonuclear, with institutions such as the NFL suddenly embroiled in heightened political controversy.
Trump’s critics on both left and right may claim vindication from the latest public opinion polls showing Trump’s personal approval rating at 38% or less, the lowest ever for a first-year president. This is an abysmal rating at a time of accelerating economic growth, near-full employment, rising consumer and business confidence, and no major foreign crisis or war under way.
But given the intra-party divisions, lack of legislative progress in Congress, and the general tumult around the White House, perhaps it is more remarkable that Trump’s approval rating is as high as it is. This reflects the solidity of his base, which remains as enthusiastic for Trump today as it was during the campaign.
In assessing Trump’s prospects, let’s keep in mind that Trump’s personal approval rating on election day was nearly as negative. Last year, Americans voted for someone they didn’t much like, reflecting the even greater dislike of Hillary Clinton and the desire for a change of direction in Washington. Change is what we got.
In assessing Trump’s accomplishments, let’s not get too distracted by his unconventional conduct. This hitherto ideologically unmoored man has set in motion an administration arguably more conservative than Ronald Reagan’s. While the Congress controlled by his adopted party remains gridlocked, Trump is rolling back regulations and a number of the Obama administration’s most controversial achievements, including the internal structure of Obamacare and the Clean Power Plan. His foreign policy resets look increasingly sure-footed. His judicial nominees are uniformly conservative. It is inconceivable that any of the other leading Republican candidates from the 2016 cycle would have governed as boldly as Trump has.
Trump’s rhetorical and behavioral recklessness — his government-by-tweet — still make it hard to discern whether there is a method to his madness, or whether he is just going with the populist flow he helped unleash. He has yet to be tested with a serious crisis, where showmanship and bluster count for nothing. Aristotle wrote that “rule shows the man,” but what we’re seeing so far is still confusing.
Steven F. Hayward is senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-o...y-foibles-trump-has-1509748851-htmlstory.html
And that's from an anti-Trump Berkeley professor.
No they didn't, a Dem. held onto a governorship they already had, and they tied a state house, and are still in the state Senate minority, in other news Republicans control 36 governerships, and have total government control in 25 states, the fact that the DNC is celebrating last night as some amazing win just shows in what bad shape they are in, they are barely a regional party.
If the repubs had won, we'd be hearing the usual myth of how Va. is still a white racist slave State.
But they didn't win, get over it!!!