Posted on 04/24/2018 5:34:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Gallup poll shows a very mixed reaction by Americans to the GOP tax cut, creating another November problem for the establishment wing of the GOP. “Republicans have been increasingly more positive about their federal income taxes since [President Donald] Trump took office last year … [but] independents’ and Democrats’ views have not changed much,” Gallup reported April 16 about its survey of 1,015 adults, which was conducted early April.
That’s bad news for the GOP leadership, which is hoping that the tax benefits will spike turnout by GOP voters, help with independents and mute Democratic opposition. Without strong voter support for the tax bill, beleaguered GOP legislators will be pressured to find other issues to champion, such as President Donald Trump’s successful low-immigration/high-wage platform.
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It hit me a few months that we are not looking at two powers here (D and R), we’are actually looking at three, but also a different two.
As three they are trump, R’s and D’s.
As two they are the R’s and D’s on one side, and Trump on the other.
Few trump supporters that I know see him and the R party as really the same entity. Rather, if this was world war II, trump would be the US, the D’s would be the Nazis and the R’s would be the Soviet Union. Allies, but just barely.
Doubt it. If this were actually true the media would be running stories about it all the time.
DUH!...
At this point, after watching the Republican messaging in these special elections, I fully expect the Republicans to lose the house this fall. Republicans will pick up several senate seats.
The one thing that can save the R’s at this point are the Dems.... If they keep doing stupid stuff like this sore/loserman lawsuit.. that may be enough to motivate turnout for the R vote in spite of the GOP ecosystems complete incompetence....
And should the D’s actually decide to openly run on Impeachment this fall, the Republicans will not only hold the house, but will likely gain somewhere between 25 and 50 more seats.
However the way things stand right now, and the messaging the R’s have been using, I fully expect them to lose the house this fall. Won’t be a 1994 or 2010 blowout.. but they will lose enough seats to lose control of the house.
Unless the GOP ecosphere WAKES up, and realizes who the electorate is, and why Trump won... they are going to lose the house. If they are determined to just run messaging in the campaign like they have done for the last nearly 20 years, democratic enthusiasm will give the D’s wins in enough Purple and Pink districts to take the house this fall.
I remember how correct all of the polls were in 2016! So, I’ll put all of my trust into this poll! /HEAVY S
Trump and the GOP are NOT the same, and that is EXACTLY why the GOP is currently on path to lose the house. Democrats are enthusiastic and will crawl over broken glass to vote this fall... R’s are putting out messaging that ignores 2016 ever happened, and offering those MAGA and non traditional R voters a reason to care or show up...
Its basically MAGA, the GOPe and the Dem/Left... that’s the politcal landscape.... the GOPe doesn’t like or want MAGA, but they are married out of pragmatic reality. However they keep running GOPe campaigns and not MAGA campaigns, they will not generate the turnout needed to counter D enthusiasm and will lose the house as a lot of purple and pink districts will fall.
If the GOP and its ecosphere do not GET ON BOARD with MAGA, and put out messaging to those MAGA voters, don’t expect R’s to hold the house.
The one thing that might save the GOP from its own incompetence would be if the D’s truly do run openly on impeachment this fall... If the D’s do that, then the Non Traditional MAGA voter will not only show up, but show up in droves, and not only will the R’s hold the house, but they will gain 25-50 seats... in spite of the GOP ecosphere’s ineptitude.
Short of that, the GOP ecosphere, better wake up, running on the same messaging you used for 20 years or more is NOT going to motivate the MAGA voter outside your base to show up.. it never got these voters to show up and vote for you prior to 2016, to think it will now is beyond stupid.
We are in agreement regarding Trump vs the Deep State. However, I believe there is a strong possibility that Trump’s election was due to divine intervention. i.e. we don’t know what will happen in November.
I was on record as saying I would vote straight D in november if the individual mandate in obamacare was not repealed. It was. I’ll vote straight R.
If the R’s and moderates that dislike the D’s show up, we’ll be fine, and maybe better than fine. But I’m making no predictions. It’s a fool’s errand.
Most people are just starting to see the extra $ hit their paychecks. With the economy roaring ahead, unemployment - I mean real unemployment not the BS the government claimed - going down and wages going up, I think the Republicans will do fine in November.
Sorry, but that won’t be enough, particular in congressional races.
A lot of Pink and Purple districts are going to be lost this fall with that mindset.
The R messaging needs to wake up to who the electorate is.. if you think simply the usual voters who always show up will be enough, so ignore those non traditional MAGA voters, the R’s will lose the house... pure and simple.
The D’s and Anti Trumpers are motivated and going to show up en masse.... if you think the usual suspects will be enough to not lose the house you are naive.
Trump WON because he went outside the usual suspects... and he showed how to win, and how to win big.... if you think the usual suspects are enough, you don’t understand 2016. The GOP can easily lose 10 or more congressional seats just in the upper midwest alone if they think running the same campaign that you have run for the last 20 years and the usual suspects are going to be enough.. it won’t.
D turnout will be insanely high... sitting back and thinking well as long as our usual folks show up its all good.
That’s the sort of mind set that lost PA-18.... Not one attempt to reach out beyond the typical base.. and what was the result?? 50,000 fewer R votes that the last midterm election......
No the deep red districts aren’t going to be swamped by D enthusiasm, but you better believe many purple and pink ones will absolutely be if the GOP doesn’t wake up.
Build the wall.
Maybe ‘cuz the (revenue neutral) ‘tax-cuts’ didn’t effect the avg. taxpayer? Anything noted has been at the benevolence of the employer, not in The People keeping more of their own property.
Plus, given the (R)N(C) has done NOTHING, aside from lip-service and lies, to repeal O’Care (sorry, folks, but nuking the mandate doesn’t negate the horrible ‘law’) and given us $1.3T+ in deficits and higher debt.
They can manufacture all the fake polling they want for the DNC, it doesn’t change fiction to fact.
Check the consumer confidence and unemployment numbers if you want a real gauge on how US voters are feeling
Oh really? Then let Democrats PROMISE to repeal the Trump tax cuts. Ha ha ha ha DO IT (as the English asshole said pointing to his eyes and daring Trump to run).
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