Posted on 08/08/2018 6:45:29 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Results from the Ohio special election on Tuesday support the idea that the GOP is becoming a rural party that could face problems in winning over suburban voters his fall, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough opined on Wednesday.
"This is a party, the Republican Party, that's becoming more and more every day a rural party," the former GOP congressman, a frequent critic of President Trump, said on his morning MSNBC show.
GOP candidate Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in the special election race for a House seat, but the result is close enough that it could trigger a recount under state law. Even if Balderson wins, the results are discouraging for Republicans given the district's GOP tilt. It had been held by the GOP since 1983, and Trump won the district by 11 points.
"We don't know who's going to end up winning it. [But] regardless of who ends up winning it, Republicans certainly know as well as Democrats [that] this is another race where Republicans have under performed," Scarborough said.
"They under performed in a district that is deep, deep red," the MSNBC host continued. "I think Democrats have maybe won it once since the 1930s. But you see the same thing happening: they're bleeding. Republicans are bleeding, badly, right now, in suburbs."
Republicans are worried about losing the House majority this fall. Democrats would need to gain 23 seats to win back the House, which will require victories in a number of suburban districts.
The party believes Trump's low approval ratings and dissatisfaction among women over his presidency could help their candidates across the country.
Dozens of GOP seats are seen as toss-ups, and Democrats are favored by election handicappers in around 10 GOP-held seats.
The left = the Capitol elites in the Hunger Games
Conservatives = the districts.
It’s becoming the party of the folks who make shit and grow shit.
We have underperformed. Gotta get off our duffs. Rats play to win. We don’t.
Wouldn’t that make democrats an “urban” party?
Reading anything in the results of a special election in the first week of August is amateurish.
I know those RATs are tired of elections where they have to hang out at the polls until most Red areas are in so that they can stuff the ballot box.
They do this every election. Sometimes they stuff enough to win.
The gope under-performed ...
...and won.
That’s a GOOD sign.
What he failed to mention is that the GOP is set to take five Democratically-controlled Senate seats in November, and retain the AZ/Tenn Senate seats.
The good news is that as technology permits, people are leaving the cities for the rural areas. It’s been going on for decades, but is slowly increasing as working from home becomes a reality for an ever increasing part of the population.
Who cares what Scarborough says?
I agree the GOP turnout in Ohio 12 was less than impressive, but how do we know there wasn’t vote tampering going on as well. After all Democrats were involved in this race too!
Riiiiiight, Joe. In an interim election with Dem turnout 2x the GOP turnout, the GOP candidate still won.
It would be funny if some smart folks in the rural areas held their results back to recount, “just to make sure”.
What would even be better would be for all polling places to not release their results until every single polling place indicates they are prepared to release their results.
Or perhaps they could be sealed and all opened at once.
I don’t know about “rural”. I think the GOPt is becoming the polar opposite of the Democrat party that is “inner city/urban”. It seems like there is the “city folks” and the “rest of us” .. guess that makes us “rural” from a city folk perspective?
Rural voters nearly gave MN to Trump in 2016.
The problem is actually on the RAT side.
Most rural voters don’t like the world the RATS want to mandate on them.
A shirt I saw at Tractor Supply:
“Farming. Because SOMEBODY’S gotta feed you people.”
Scar boro (cause he’s an ass ), and his adulterous side kick [look at] Mia are sophisticated Urbanites...yuk yuk.
The District is an urban/suburban/rural nightmare.
Every time I see him I think of the old song “How are you going to keep them down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?”
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