Posted on 09/05/2018 6:24:00 AM PDT by vannrox
WASHINGTON - The two top-ranking Democrats indicated Tuesday that their confidence is growing that their party will retake the House majority in November's midterm elections, as a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed voters turning sharply against congressional Republicans.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sent a letter telling colleagues on Tuesday that Democrats "must Be Ready for the prospect that we will be in the Majority in January."
Pelosi said that the top Democrats on House committees will write bills reflecting the party's "For the People" campaign agenda, with an emphasis on reining in health care coats, raising wages and cleaning up corruption in Washington.
The letter came the same day Pelosi said in a NPR interview that she has "every confidence" that Democrats will reclaim the House. "Not because I'm taking anything for granted, but because we're not yielding one grain of sand," she said.
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Their hopes are going to get shipwrecked on the hard rocks of reality.
We need a massive GOTV strategy and we will keep the house. I hope we have a few hundred people already planning a strategy.
Intellectual dishonesty on full display.
ABC - Compost is nothing to get excited about. It is far from the paragon of accuracy.
They think that circus tbey brought to town yesterday is going to help their chances. They have NO IDEA how insane they look and sound.
Slightly smaller GOP majority in the house, slightly larger GOP majority in the Senate.
Man, they talk like it’s a 9,000-percent chance of taking the House. All the same jabber from the month prior to the November 2016 election.
Remember this - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
If we get complacent, the Dems could be right.
Politicians enthusiastically spin everything. Or reinvent the vernacular to soften the lie.
I wonder if this recent surge of articles (and likely many more to come) saying a “blue wave” is coming for certain will make Dems complacent. After all, why make the effort to vote if it’s going to be a landslide anyway?
Apparently they can’t envision the crowds at the Trump rallies.
Yes like a 4.2 GDP now predicted to be 4.7% 56% of voters say Democrats out of step. NO WHITES NEED APPLY sigsn on Dem HQs, Sanctuary cities raising taxes open borders promises to impeach President Trump and free stuff for all whats there to stop them?
Confidence? Then why are they acting so desperate?
Yup... And queen Hillary will be reinstated as President as soon as they do the recount. LOL
Ok, name me an election where they dont say this. But lets get by the latest democrat victory inevitable, why even bother to hold the election media campaign and apply some logic.
Might the democrats retake the house? Sure? History dictates the party of a first term President doesnt do well in mid-terms.
But unlike prior elections where the GOP lost control of Congress (culture of corruption, Iraq War unpopularity, etc.) I dont see that the GOP has stumbled horribly. The economy is good and Trump is leading a movement. Sure the congressional GOP has not gotten behind him enough, but they are largely backing him by instigating this phony dossier entrapment. Again, they could do more but I dont sense a punish the party mood from GOP voters.
From what I can see, the entire basis for the current blue wave story is that the voters are soooooo disgusted with Trump, that they cant wait to vote democrat and have him impeached. In other words, the left assumes that the independents and even many in the GOP share their irrational hatred for Trump. I see no democrat policy initiatives that are popular, no platform whatsoever from the democrats. I only see an arrogant assumption that everyone agrees with them in hatred, echoed by their media propaganda machine.
Put differently, in the last two years, what have the democrats done to regain the working class voters who once supported them? These are the same voters who turned on them and gave us President Trump?
The everyone hates Trump theory just doesnt jive with what my eyes tell me. Trump is still packing rallies and his approval rating is doing well. Does he have coattails? I would have said no until the democrats gave him coattails. By talking impeachment the democrats have hurt themselves by linking even the most unpopular GOP congressperson with Trumps survival. They have also, I believe shaken some complacency from the GOP base.
It’s all an act to demoralize right wing people so they don’t bother voting.
Make it be the opposite. Make it motivate more normals to vote this midterm.
Building a narrative
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