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What’s Behind This Axios Poll Telling Democrats They Can’t Win the Senate?
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | July 10, 2018 | Rush Limbagh

Posted on 07/11/2018 8:59:47 AM PDT by SMGFan

RUSH: Okay, back to this Axios poll. It’s a poll they took with SurveyMonkey, which is a credible bunch. They have a bar, Monkey Bar in New York, SurveyMonkey, same people. You knew that, right? “Brutal poll.” No, I’m making it up. People may not know when I’m kidding. I have to admit when I’m kidding more than ever today.

“Democrats’ Senate Dream Slips Away.” They never had a realistic opportunity of taking the Senate. You know, this is another illustration. Ever since election night 2016 when Trump won, the whole mantra has been illegitimate, people don’t really mean this, they voted for Trump, they were mad, but they don’t really like Trump and they’re regretting it. As time went on, they regret Trump won, people regret it, they wish they could vote against him. Next chance they get they’re gonna vote against him.

And that became Democrats are gonna win back the House, big, gigantic blue wave, Democrats gonna win the Senate. None of that was ever true. There was never any evidence of a blue wave. There was never any evidence the Democrats were gonna take the Senate. It’s always been practically an impossible hill to climb in the Senate. They have too many seats to defend.

Right now the Democrats need to hold on to 10 seats in red states that Trump won by double digits. And then, in addition to holding that many, they have to win two pickups. They have to win two seats currently held by Republicans. The odds that they’re gonna win 12 — and the Republicans don’t have to defend nearly as many, this has never been a slam dunk.

But because they created the lying illusion in all of these news reports for many months, now we’re getting down to reality time, so they have to correct this. And they’re using a poll to do it by claiming, “Oh, no, there is a brutal new poll out that shows the dream of the Democrats taking over the Senate is slipping away.” It was never anything but a dream. But, you know, they’re being hoisted on their own petard now, because now they’ve been telling everybody Democrats are gonna win everything, everybody hates Trump, everybody regrets voting for Trump.

And now they have to make it look like the dream is slipping away, like it was a chance, it was a realistic possibility, it was gonna happen, but something’s gone wrong. It was never gonna happen.

“To win the Senate, Democrats need to keep all 10 seats they’re defending in states that President Trump won in 2016 — plus pick up two more seats. That’s not happening. A new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll of key states shows Dems would lose three of those red-state seats while picking up two GOP seats — still short of the majority.”

“It’s looking nearly impossible,” says Axios, “for Democrats to take back the Senate. So the stakes are even higher for them to win the House if they’re going to have any kind of congressional check on President Trump. The polls shows three Democratic senators are poised to lose their seats to Republicans — Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota, Bill Nelson in Florida and Joe Donnelly in Indiana.”

By the way, about Nelson, you know, Rick Scott, the governor now running for Nelson’s Senate seat, this race came up over the weekend and a guy said to me, “I haven’t seen any ads. I haven’t seen any ads.” I said, “You haven’t? I’ve seen them all over the place.” “What? What ads have you seen?” .................


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018issues; 2018midterms; 2018polls; democrats; election; rush; rushtranscript; senate
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To: ClearCase_guy
Are you prepared to do what needs to be done, when the time to do it comes (and not before)?
21 posted on 07/11/2018 11:26:15 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

I’ve given it quite a bit of thought.


22 posted on 07/11/2018 11:29:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If you beleive the dog, then take his advice.)
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To: SMGFan

Every Leftist media organ faces the constant problem of having to reconcile their preferred audience to events turning against their propaganda line. As an ongoing business, the strategy for Axios likely includes that they aim to become known as a reliable predictor of elections. In telling the bad news early, Axios is trying to get ahead of the impending cascade of bad polling and election stories by telling their audience that the 2018 midterm elections are extremely unlikely to yield Senate control for the Dems.


23 posted on 07/11/2018 12:42:39 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: jmaroneps37

Were you meaning to refer to another state? Obama did not carry Montana in either of his elections.


24 posted on 07/11/2018 7:17:04 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: ClearCase_guy

You may be unfortunately be correct - we saw some of this after 2016 - large numbers of people walking through and blocking traffic on major interstate highways - including blocking an ambulance with a seriously ill patient from getting to the hospital in at least one place. Because...if they do lose this coming election, they will have lost the Courts that they use to overturn the laws passed by the people’s elected representatives...despite all of the Democrat obstruction, if the Senate stays in GOP hands and they continue to confirm Circuit Court nominees at the same pace they have been the last two years, they will be stocked with young conservative judges for a generation.


25 posted on 07/11/2018 7:20:57 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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