McConnell: Of course we’re going to lose seats this fall

Hot Air.com ^ | February 18, 2018 | JAZZ SHAW

[lasereye]

If the generic ballot is dead even just before the election, the Dems will still pick up lots of seats, and the House at a minimum, and maybe the Senate too, as well as Governors and state legislatures. The reason is illustrated by the special elections where Dems are flipping deep red seats. Dem turnout is very high. They have done a superb job of using fear to motivate their base. Trump supporting Republicans, Independents and Democrats are not turning out at the same level.

In VA, they also came up with some more high tech methods of identifying likely Dem voters and getting them out to vote - particularly young voters. They've probably done that in other races like Alabama. Once again they may be ahead there, like in 2012. I wonder if the RNC strategists took note. Probably not.

[af_vet_1981]

If one reads Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, it is written that the Clinton campaign knew they were going to lose early in the evening. The precincts in Florida portended what would happen in states with similar precincts.

Around 7:45 on election night, when Hillary Clinton and her aides still thought they were headed to the White House, troubling news emerged from Florida. Steve Schale, the best vote-counter the Democrats had in the state, told campaign officials they were going to lose the biggest battleground in the country. Yes, Clinton was doing well in some places, but Donald Trump’s numbers in Republican areas were inconceivably big.

The Clintons got the news first that something was desperately wrong from an operative in Florida.

“You’re going to come up short,” Schale said, stunning aides in Brooklyn who were, until that moment, comfortably cradled in the security of their own faulty analytics.

[Vigilanteman]

I had that feeling at 6:15 am, 45 minutes before we could legally open the polls in our precinct in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The first voters arrived to wait in line patiently.

I'd seen that at 6:50 am or even as early as 6:45 am, but never at 6:15 am

We have a lot of retired voters in our precinct who like the bragging rights of being first in line. But these 6:15 am voters weren't retirement age. Typically, we might have a dozen or so voters in line when we open. This time, there was at least four times that many.

[Savage Beast]

When I look at Mitch McConnell, what I see is a lack of credibility.