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Posted on 11/10/2020 4:01:30 AM PST by Kaslin
PINE TOWNSHIP, Penn. -- Had you spent any time in this northern suburb of Pittsburgh listening to voters, finding out what matters to them when it comes to schools, community growth, economic prosperity and the emotional impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns, you would have at least been skeptical of the media narrative and the polls that claimed suburban voters here are no longer center-right.
Not Republican per se, just center-right.
Most reporters certainly didn't take the time to do so. Instead, they relied on the scolding of our cultural curators in sports, media and Hollywood as an indicator of how these affluent, college-educated voters would vote. Surely, reporters thought, these suburbs had fully embraced "wokeism" and rejected center-right values and principles. They thought they would cave under the cultural pressure, push left and send a blue shock wave across the country with their votes.
These reporters put their faith in what they saw in polls or on Twitter, and they predicted the vilification of center-rightism would drag the country leftward. Except the people who voted here, and in down-ballot races across the country, vigorously rejected that pressure.
By all accounts, Rob Mercuri should have never won the open state House seat. His opponent, Emily Skopov, was well funded; had the support of the teachers union, abortion rights groups and several climate change groups; and supported Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's restrictive approach to the pandemic. Skopov possessed everything pollsters and the national narrative believed needed to win against a Republican: She's female, progressive and was running for a seat with a changing demographic that is ascending and affluent.
She lost by almost 9 percentage points -- again, repeating the same number she had when she ran against Republican former House Speaker Mike Turzai, who decided not to seek reelection this term.
Mercuri was not alone. In another equally affluent suburb on the other side of the Allegheny River, Devlin Robinson took out Democrat state Sen. Pam Iovino, 53 percent to 47 percent.
In Oakmont, as of Thursday evening, powerful Democratic state House Minority Leader Frank Dermody was trailing Republican Carrie DelRosso, 52 percent to 48 percent. Dermody has held for decades in an affluent suburban district that hugs the Allegheny River, but she may fall short in 2020.
Pollsters let President Donald Trump get in their way in understanding the electorate, and so did reporters and political scientists.
For a brief moment as a reporter, I struggled with lining up what the data was telling me. It conflicted with what my reporting was telling me, with what voters were telling me and with what cultural cues were telling me. So, I went back out in search of that blue wave in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin.
It turns out that the only place that blue wave existed was on Twitter or in a poll -- never once in an experience or an interview.
Traditionally, a president, whether center-right or center-left, pushes the country in the opposite direction. Former President Barack Obama pushed the country right three times, in 2010, 2014 and 2016, in reaction to his policies. Former President George W. Bush pushed the country left in 2006 and 2008. Former President Bill Clinton pushed the country right in 1994.
While Trump pushed the country slightly center-left in the 2018 midterm elections, his policies (tax cut, trade deal, deregulation) and the left's insane pressure on our culture both pushed the country firmly back to center-right.
It could be argued that these competing forces ignited the beginning of a red wave that not only kept the coalition that placed Trump in office intact but also got bigger and more diverse, with Republicans winning the largest share of nonwhite voters since 1960.
Republicans didn't just gain seats here in Pennsylvania in the state House and state Senate. There is also a better-than-50 percent chance that it won two statewide offices. Republicans also gained state House and Senate seats in Ohio and West Virginia, while Democrats lost ground in North Carolina and Iowa.
And all that boasting and bragging about Democratic prospects of winning the Texas state House fell flat.
Republicans also increased their gubernatorial majority by reelecting all of the Republican governors up for election in 2020 and by flipping Montana. The GOP lead in governors is now 27 to 23.
Despite having all of the money in the world (half a billion at last count) and all of the pressure culture placed on these voters, these voters showed up and voted for their communities.
In addition, Hispanic and black voters voted for center-right candidates in record numbers. Why? Ask them. A lot of that move to the right has to do with opportunity, aspiration, community and faith, concepts cable news talking heads never address. They only assume these voters are on the same page as an Ivy League women's studies major on social justice, climate justice, pronoun justice and justice justice.
These voters – call them shy Trump voters or shy Tory voters – don't hold larger institutions with the same regard that elites do. In fact, they regard them with skepticism and are highly unlikely to give them information they consider private.
Center-rightism didn't defy the odds. It was always present. It's just that too few people asked people why. It doesn't have a color or a geographical place, but it proved Tuesday evening that it is persistent and does not respond accordingly to outside cultural pressure.
Elitism also did not defy the odds. Within hours of voting results rolling in, elites watched in horror as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden did not win in a landslide and there was no blue wave. They lived up to their cultural blindness and continued to avoid the reality that our country has moved not left over the last four years but center-right.
They are also still missing how the conservative populist coalition that placed Trump in office has held together and grown, with many of those voters opting not to vote for him at the top of the ticket but happily turning out for other Republican candidates.
Oh they voted for him. The Dominion software switched their votes.
No one saw coming? seriously?
All you’d have to do is watch and compare the rallys.
President Trump continued from 2016 with mega rally after mega rally. Tens of thousands. People were standing in the freezing rain knowing they wouldn’t get in but did it to show their support.
Biden... well.. he had trouble filling 6 ‘isolation circles’ in a high school gymnasium
Then there was the Trump car rallys. 10-30 miles long. Giddy, optimistic patriotism is the best way to describe the feeling.
Biden? Well... there was the 3 cars circling his neighborhood. Another one was 6-10 golf carts. The best description? Sad and pathetic.
President Trump is Pro-America.
Biden? Who knows. It depends on who paid the most that month.
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Zito is a smart reporter. Maybe she's being subtle here and hinting at an obvious anomaly, but I feel like she's actually not seeing the obvious.
Trump was popular, and had coattails. There was a Red Wave. Lots of voters cast their ballot for lots of Republicans. Trump got lots of votes too. The key thing is that a lot of ballots were manufactured for Biden. Those ballots skipped over the other candidates, so the Republicans riding Trump's coattails still won the races they were winning. But at the top of the ticket, enough magical Biden ballots appeared to steal the election from Trump (for now). It wasn't a case of voters "not opting to vote for him at the top of the ticket". It was a case of SW inventing votes for Biden at the top of the ticket. That's why the Red Wave that Trump created didn't include Trump. Which doesn't make sense.
any red wave will be useless hit a wall if Biden gets sworn in
even more useless if we lose the senate.
you can spit in our faces, but that doesnt mean that it’s raining.
Odd that the same dynamics didn’t apply to Trump. Or did they but were cheated away?
Thanks Kaslin, this one went on my FB page.
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In the Name of Jesus Christ, WE bind the rulers, the strongmen, doorkeepers and all connected, related and resulting demons of
ELECTION FRAUD, FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, witchcraft, Satan worship, human and animal sacrifice, magic, witchcraft control, mind control, mind occult and the occult of, over, in and working in and through:
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we loose, in the name of Jesus, upon and into all of Satan’s children, partaking
of and planning these wicked and evil practices, the spirits of:
Confusion, Forgetfulness, Destruction; also spirits of Salvation, Adoption as Children of God (Romans 8:15) and Deliverance.
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we ask You, Father, to put a special covering of angels over each ceremony, coven, witch and warlock, SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING ALL THOSE PLANNING AND PERPETRATING ELECTORAL FRAUD AND SEDITION, so that no curse, spell or demon can emerge or be sent.
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Father, WE ask You to send special WARRIOR angels to protect (Exodus 8:22, 23), hide and put a hedge around (Job 1:10; Hosea 2:6) all your and all who are sounding the alarm and calling out and exposing evil.
And we cut down, with the Sword of the Spirit, all communications in the unseen world having anything at all to do with this electoral fraud.
In Jesus’ Name, amen.
“... but I feel like she’s actually not seeing the obvious.”
The author wants to keep selling articles. To even hint that Trump actually won would probably mean she would sell many fewer articles. A talking head on CNN said that people continuing to support Trump might lose their jobs as employers and potential employers might take a dim view of that. I don’t think that’s true in the wider world but it probably is in the media world.
Nobody?
17th Letter called a Red Wave.
Ridiculous to call a red wave when our President was robbed.
17th letter told us the 2018 midterms were safe, to trust Wray, to trust Sessions, that there were 18 bazillion sealed indictments, etc etc.
If the 17th letter was right about this it was completely accidental.
Throw enough BS at a wall and some of it is bound to stick.
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Basically nobody in the establishment on either side wanted Trump to win. They won't defend him or fight for him now. They are happy he's gone. But whatever 'red wave' there was only happened for ONE reason: Trump. After the GOP spit in our faces when they had control of both houses under Trump, especially on signature issues like Obamacare, they would not have motivated me and many others to turn out to reward them if we weren't there for Trump. Period.
Without Trump the Congress would have achieved nothing and further lost power in the house.
Without him campaigning for Jan senate runoff in Jan the Dems will take senate
With Collins/ Murkowski/ Romney already congratulating Biden before he legally becomes President elect they are showing they will go with the winds of whatever benefits their ego .
No one? Seriously?
I SMELLED it for months and the huge rally’s proved I was right
President Trump continued from 2016 with mega rally after mega rally. Tens of thousands. People were standing in the freezing rain knowing they wouldn’t get in but did it to show their support.
Biden... well.. he had trouble filling 6 ‘isolation circles’ in a high school gymnasium
Then there was the Trump car rallys. 10-30 miles long. Giddy, optimistic patriotism is the best way to describe the feeling.
Biden? Well... there was the 3 cars circling his neighborhood. Another one was 6-10 golf carts. The best description? Sad and pathetic.
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THIS is what makes me mad about these 3am in the morning ballot dumps that can’t be validated for the most part. THINK about those people they just stole this election from not just POTUS.
It’s sickening beyond belief and if these effers are allowed to get away with it kiss any and all conservative Presidents goodbye.
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