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Democrats Are in Deep Trouble
US News & World Report ^ | August 7, 2017 | By Peter Roff

Posted on 08/07/2017 1:59:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

... There are lots of reasons the partisan division has become so lopsided in favor of the GOP. The Democrats and their friends in the government departments of elite universities and on the editorial desk at the New York Times will say it's because the legislative district maps are drawn unfairly, because the votes of non-whites are suppressed in the South and in rural areas, and just about any other excuse they can think of to suggest the Republicans are cheating. In truth, the voters just aren't buying any more what the Democrats have to sell.

The Democrats, from FDR to Bill Clinton, were the party of the working man. They are that no longer, despite what their new "Better Deal" plan may say.

The realignment GOP strategists have anticipated since 1980 is at hand. All the Republicans have to do to become the permanent majority is to deliver on what they promised, continue to grow their vote, and prove the disparate wings of the party – the economic conservatives, the social conservatives, the Trump voters, the Reagan Democrats and those who join the party because they are born into it because … Lincoln – can work together to get things done.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018issues; communists; democrats; dncstrategy; peterroff; socialists; statists; third100days
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Peter Roff is a U.S. News & World Report contributing editor for opinion and longtime observer of the Washington scene. Formerly senior political writer for United Press International he writes about public policy for a number of publications and for public policy groups including Asian Forum Japan, where he is a visiting scholar, and Frontiers of Freedom, where he is a senior fellow. He has been published widely and appears weekly on One America News’ “The Daily Ledger.”
1 posted on 08/07/2017 1:59:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“in favor of the GOP”

Haha ...that was a good one.


2 posted on 08/07/2017 2:04:20 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words you can’t rebuild a party on insane rage, finger pointing, blame shifting, virtue signaling, and economic theories that fail every time they’re tried.


3 posted on 08/07/2017 2:05:13 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democrats are the WELFARE PARTY!!! And the Party of DEATH...(except for killer criminals).


4 posted on 08/07/2017 2:06:42 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Bingo


5 posted on 08/07/2017 2:07:14 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The democrats were the demographic party...Trump busted that wide open.


6 posted on 08/07/2017 2:07:26 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

We need to be careful about drawing that conclusion. Obama and the Labour Party in Britain proved that you can still win IF you can come up with something that gets minorities and young skulls o’ mush off the couch to go and vote.

I suspect they are going to try student loan forgiveness next time.


7 posted on 08/07/2017 2:10:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Leep

He is assuming that voter ID will be pushed through and that illegals will be largely forced to leave.


8 posted on 08/07/2017 2:20:05 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
America is in deep trouble. Unless the democrats give up on their socialist/globalist goals and return to at least somewhat constitutional government, I only see one other alternative.

I hope I am wrong, but the decision is in the hands of people who fundamentally hate America and hate freedom. I just hope they love their own lives enough to do the right thing.

9 posted on 08/07/2017 2:25:39 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

You mean the demagogic party... LOL


10 posted on 08/07/2017 2:26:55 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
"The Democrats, from FDR to Bill Clinton, were the party of the working man."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Speaking of presidents from FDR to Bill Clinton, patriots are reminded that Founding States had constitutionally empowered the individual sovereign states, not the feds, to shape their own domestic policies, the unconstitutionally big federal government now wrongly deciding domestic policy for the states.

This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson, previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices, and Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker.

Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!

Remember in November 2018 !

Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.

Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.

Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!

11 posted on 08/07/2017 2:49:13 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Buckeye McFrog

In the end, perhaps there’s a silver lining to Obambi’s having won two terms on white guilt:

1) John McCain will never be President
2) Hillary Clinton will never be President
3) White guilt is spent

Other than that... what a bloody mess that subversive America-hater left us to deal with.

Romney so blew an easy win, but there, too, is the benefit that had Romney won, Barack Hussein would still be viable politically.

God works in strange ways.


12 posted on 08/07/2017 3:04:25 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Shhhhhh!


13 posted on 08/07/2017 3:18:28 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: nicollo

Republicans will attempt to disenfranchize the deceased. Many on these voters are veterans. Some even fought to preserve the Union in our Civil War. The Republicans should be ashamed.


14 posted on 08/07/2017 3:18:47 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Democrats, from FDR to Bill Clinton, were the party of the working man.

That has, in all probability, never been true. It certainly hasn't been true in the last half a century.

The Democrats, ever since the utter debacle that was Jimmy Carter, have been the party of left-wing extremists, promoting absurdist ideas as mainstream and demeaning anyone who dares disagree. Before that, they were just a gaggle of neo-socialists, big government plutocrats, and corrupt union manipulators. With a handful of Southern racists thrown in for the spice.

15 posted on 08/07/2017 3:39:20 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Buckeye McFrog
In other words you can’t rebuild a party on insane rage

Like Jack said, "Go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here."

16 posted on 08/07/2017 3:41:19 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They don’t have any idea.

As I keep posting at www.bigleaguepolitics.com the voter registration changes are against the Dems in 12/14 battleground states. The ONLY states where Ds have gained are OR and CO.

They have lost substantial ground in PA, FL, and AZ, but also in DE, MD, IA, NC, NV, NH, ME, NM.


17 posted on 08/07/2017 3:42:26 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“We’re all stocked up here”

Some absolute zingers in that movie...
“Quit worrying - you’ll be back on your knees in no time”


18 posted on 08/07/2017 3:55:44 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: jonno

What movie was that?


19 posted on 08/07/2017 4:10:19 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I suspect they are going to try student loan forgiveness next time.

Still won't be enough to tip the scales...too much weed available.

20 posted on 08/07/2017 4:19:38 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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