What happened is the same thing that happened in VA and NJ and is happening other places - Democrat turnout is very high for off year elections. In VA at least I read where they used some very sophisticated data driven techniques for getting young voters to the polls. In AL it was largely about blacks.Democrat turnout is driven largely by their hysterical rhetoric about Trump getting their base whipped into a frenzy.
Meanwhile the Republican turnout has been closer to the typical off year election turnout.
That in a nutshell is what is happening right now. Hopefully the RNC and Trump’s people are taking this in and developing some kind of sophisticated game plan to drive up GOP turnout. But the Democrats methods are emotion driven. Trump can talk about the economy, manufacturing booming etc., but that doesn’t get people emotional. He could talk about how the Dems are blocking the wall. But the GOP candidates would have to talk about it as well.
To me the thing that could and should get Republicans angry is that the Democrats are going to impeach Trump and are coordinating on a big lie (Russia collusion) because they cannot accept that they lost the election. This is scary stuff. But as we know lots of Republican politicians don’t want to go there.
The bottom line is they have to come up with something and all get on the same message, but history suggests the GOP is incapable of that.
good points.
I think your post is spot on. They thought the presidency was firewalled off from us ever winning it again - especially to a vulgarian like Trump, and their level of shock and fury cannot be overstated.
I hope the Mueller investigation finishes collapsing before the election so Trump can declare them a bunch of liars who have committed themselves to overturning the election by any means necessary. He needs to say that their intentions are to regain control of Congress to impeach him over whatever the next lie is that they pull out of their asses. He needs to tell the troops that they have to go out and vote to protect him and their voting franchise because these lawless psychopaths are trying to steal it from them.
Roy Moore’s campaign was more like President Trump’s campaign. Moore’s opponents are the Democrats, media, the Republican Establishment, the talking heads on TV, to include some at FOX, Hollywood, much talk about false claims THAT WERE NEVER FILED WITH THE POLICE, and Obama who dumped $4 million into the Doug Jones campaign in the last few days before the election. Even Sen. Shelby, Republican from Alabama, said he would not vote for MOORE. NOW..............now we hear that a recount of the votes has, so far, thrown out an entire voting district votes because fraudulent votes have been found - 26,000 votes in a district of 1,100 voters. It ain’t over till the Fat Lady sings................Moore got 48.40% or 650,436 votes. Jnes received 49.95% or 671,151 votes. At the encouragement of the Republican Establishment, Republicans WROTE-IN 22,819
votes or 1.7% of all votes. Had those votes gone to Moore, we would not be talking about this at all.