The other three things of the five:
3. Third, the GOP has to learn its lesson about putting forward good candidates.
4. the forecasters didn’t know what they were talking about.
They called this a hair’s-breadth race, narrow, neck-and-neck, the Democrats’ to lose and all that. In the 9th District, the GOP really was at a disadvantage due to a bad previous candidate. And North Carolina is considered a swing or purple state, so anything really could have happened, perhaps. They just chose to call it for the Democrats. Well, now they’ve got egg all over their faces — and that’s a portent as to how much they ought to be listened to in 2020.
5. Democrats are trying to claim this as their own victory anyway.
Oh, sure — everyone wants to put on the best face, but Democrats are making fools of themselves. Both Axios and the Washington Post claimed that the margin was razor-thin. It wasn’t.
“Both Axios and the Washington Post claimed that the margin was razor-thin. It wasn’t.”
So what was the margin? I can find it reported anywhere.
The GOP Establishment RINOs will NEVER “learn their lesson” that conservative candidates win because they rally the GOP base. They will continue to shove candidates like McCain and Romney down our throats. They will continue moving Left in a futile attempt to get liberal votes. It is insane. But the GOP-e RINOs hate conservatives more than they hate the left. They will never run conservative candidate, or support them with money. But if they did, they would win back a lot of House seats.
Polls are becoming worthless under Trump. People planning to vote GOP are no longer telling pollsters the truth, just what they want to hear. Never mind the push polling and their pro commie-Rat bias that infects their polls.
And the Democrat candidate was essentially a conservative, a vet, small business owner, who I am sure was pro-gun, anti-abortion and ‘could work with Trump’ blah, blah, blah.