The Republicans in Congress (BOTH, the House and the Senate) and all ‘18 Republican candidates for Congress need to rally around a Contract With Making America Great, similar to the Contract With America, which was very successful in 1994. If they are, really, serious about, actually, doing this, then the GOP would do well in ‘18. It’s all of the RINOS and all of the Anti-Trumpers within the GOP who are causing the most political damage, overall, as they join forces with all of the Democrats.
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I think Trump is winning over more older white working class Democrats. I think he connects with them.
I live in Minnesota District 1. My sense is that it will move from (D) to (R) in 2018. The current (D), Tim Walz, is running for governor. The district leans conservative and Walz won a very tight race in 2016.
Decorating the cherry trees in the Swamp with Commiecrats...
Republicans need to figure out how to connect with the MAGA voter and motivate them to show up. And given the only thing they have to hang their hat on collectively other than the tax cuts, they really need something
Dems and trump haters are going to show up... if MAGA voters don’t Dems will take seats
Without Hillary on the ticket, the dems will have a hard time mobilizing the women in the same numbers. I don’t see any improvement in their get out the black vote. This is despite every other word being racist. I think DACA will actually hurt the dems. Both because it doesn’t get done and that they are on the wrong side of the electorate.
However, the dems are going to pull out all stops when it comes to voter fraud. Their new tactic is to subtract Republican votes as well as to add to their totals. The Republicans need a bigly ground game focused on this issue. They won Virginia and Alabama with fraud and feel embolden since they haven’t been caught (yet).
An eternity in politics between now and November. The economy figures to be very good, thank you - and to have been so for many months - by then.What can be done? I’d say a full-court press on the Democrats’ claim that the tax cut did not help people of modest income. People will be seeing an increase in take-home pay due to it, next month. Republicans should run ads saying, “Write your congressman to tell him how your paycheck changed in February.” And Republican incumbents should be using franked mail for that purpose as well.
Absolutely, let them believe that they have it in the bag.
The Republican Party is pathetic but I don’t believe this for a minute. There are very few swing Congressional seats these days, and the Democratic margin of victory in swing districts does not vote in midterm elections. Add to that a booming economy and Trump winning in the Middle East and I just don’t see a Democratic wave.
How many Never-Trumpers and RINOS are pulling for SanFranNan to get the gavel back?
The playbook and tactic is to talk it up, to repeat it so often that people will begin to believe it, and if people begin to believe it, then it will happen.
It’s called trying to make it happen. If it’s a certainty that democrats will take the house, then, they wouldn’t have to talk it up so much to try to make it happen. They would just surprise us at election time.
In any case, what are they going to run on in order to be so certain that “they got this”.
I still believe that the GOPe is planning to throw 2018 to the rats and let them do their dirty impeachment work for them while they stand idly by and feebly protest. They were willing to throw Alabama to the rats so why not?
THis is a false flag distraction story. It’s intent is to make it loook like Trump is failing. He is not.
50-50 chance at best for the Dems and probably 60-40 odds for the Repubs as the year goes on. Won’t stop all the gloom and doom folks from doing what they can (mostly by wordy inaction) to help the Dems though.
Axios is run by a Leftist liberal, Democrat.
Jim VandeHei
CEO/Co-Founder of Axios; Former CEO/Co-Founder of Politico; adviser, fan of The Information
Here is one of the predictions made by Hillary supporter Jim VandeHei:
Jim VandeHei: No “Serious” Challenges To Hillary, Every Democrat Who Wants A Job Is About To Work For Her
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date February 15, 2015
Dear Conservatives: Politico’s Jim VandeHei Is Playing You for Suckers … AgainByJohn Nolte
@NolteNC
October 6, 2016
Jim VendeHei, the left-winger who co-founded the left-wing Politico, is up to his old tricks again, and conservatives must not fall for them again. You might personally like VandeHei, but don’t let that cloud the fact that he is a brilliant conman with a very specific playbook (if you’ll pardon the pun). Don’t forget that in 2006, he ran this playbook on y’all and we all fell for it — and the results were catastrophic.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/27/liberal-male-writers-despise-jim-vandehei/