I disagree. I see no evidence of the so-called seething hatred driving Dems to the polls. I think they’re motivated to be sure, but on 2008 levels? I don’t see it. We saw no stories about Black and other lifelong Dem voting blocs breaking for McCain or Romney in 2008 or 2012. The playing field has changed considerably since th9ose two ran. Also, this week’s jobs report exceeded expectationsp,and wages shot up 3%, the highest in nine years. I’m always wary of letting Mt emotions in regarding elections, but my sense is the momentum has shifted to the GOP. Trump’s relentless campaigning is obviously a big reason, but mostly, I think his transparency and honest speaking - as blunt as it sometimes is — is welcomed by Americans (of all persuasions and political views) who’ve grown sick of the let’s PC tyranny.
Pray. Advocate. Vote. Pray. Advocate. Vote.
This isn’t about a wave election, though that is what the Dems continue to say is going to happen. This is about a ground game, volunteer and paid people going door to door to get people to go to the polls. They might want to call it a wave election because that will offer legitimacy to whatever they want to do once in office, but that is not what I’m looking at here. I know active proggies who are afraid that we are going to kill the earth with global warming, and they are pretty motivated, but mostly this is a blue-collar Democratic neighborhood no longer being menaced by drug-dealing gun-toting a-holes who are up all hours and/or who are party animals who let their kids run wild. Things are relatively quiet and these guys are pretty apolitical anyway. If they go to the polls, they are going to vote straight ticket Democratic out of reflex.