Source: Townhall Media
Posted on 01/19/2022 3:47:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Source: Townhall Media
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Joe Biden's inauguration, Gallup brought some bad polling news for the Democrats.
Over 2021, Gallup found "a dramatic shift" in party identification in their surveys, "from a nine-percentage-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter (49% to 40%) to a rare five-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter (47% to 42%)."
Underline the "rare" Republican edge. Gallup notes this has only been true in four quarters since 1991. "The Republicans last held a five-point advantage in party identification and leaning in early 1995, after winning control of the House of Representatives for the first time since the 1950s," Gallup reported. The GOP had a larger advantage only in the first quarter of 1991, after the U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf War led by President George H.W. Bush -- and that obviously didn't last.
How could these numbers happen despite the liberal tilt of the media coverage?
This shift in public opinion is in stark contrast to the media's robotic repetition that the Republicans are dominated and doomed by an attachment to Donald Trump. How has the GOP gained momentum under this constant drumbeat of how it's somehow crumbling to pieces?
Take a look at Virginia in 2021, where the Democrats ran against political newcomer Glenn Youngkin with a never-ending onslaught of commercials and messaging that was all Trump this and Trump that. None of it worked. Youngkin won anyway. Youngkin demonstrated an ability to negotiate around The Washington Post and other reporters and win over Republicans regardless of their Trump takes, not to mention independent voters who act rebelliously like Trump is yesterday's news.
In 2015, all the liberal networks gave massive chunks of free airtime to Trump, in the hopes that he would sink the Republican Party in 2016. When that didn't work, they suggested Trump's election was fraudulent, due to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. Now they look as cognitively rattled as Brian Stelter, who expresses happiness that Trump's rally didn't air live on Fox News ... but then the rally is energetically discussed for days afterward on CNN.
If they are so afraid of Trump running again in 2024, one might think the liberal journalists would labor to ignore Trump and instead promote more traditional Republicans.
But they're allergic to promoting Republicans, unless their Trump messaging sounds exactly like liberal journalists (i.e., Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger). They are still betting the best strategy for a pro-Biden press is to beat the drum endlessly that Trump has an asphyxiating stranglehold on the GOP -- and imply that the Republicans are so "restrictive" on voting rights that regaining their majorities must be considered the antonym of democracy.
This helps them avoid discussing the fractures among the Democrats, and the great upset on the left that Biden can't accomplish any of their extreme proposals to spend trillions of dollars and destroy voter-ID requirements. It's so bad that Paul Begala said out loud on CNN, "I think the problem for the Democrats right now is not that they have bad leaders. They have bad followers, OK?"
The media elites are not "bad followers." They want to help Biden succeed. The problem for the media-Democrat complex is that all of these failures on COVID and border control and inflation and Afghanistan can't be spun as good news, even if they try.
Govern in a principled manner and people will start to figure that out.
What priciples are those? Anti US worker, globalism, “free” trade, chamber of commerce ass kissing? Or MAGA?
Stop feeding the beast.
They have plenty of boe jiden “verified” feed to continue making fools of themselves.
The fake news media simply don't have the power they think they have. And conservative media is much stronger and much more influential than they think.
The first thing they should do is repeal commie care.
This is becoming so obvious it is laughably painful. The existence of a free internet is as dangerous to the Democrats as it is to North Korea and China.
If they really want to save the MSM, then the need to pass the old Equal Time rule for radio as well as television. that will fix it. (/s)
The brand is dead.
“What priciples are those?”
The GOP believes in and will fight for:
1) Open borders
2) A global open market in labor
3) Offshoring productive industries
4) Financialization of the economy
5)) Severing the medium of exchange function of money from the store of value function.
6) Usury as the main engine of consumption.
7) Denying the people their natural, healthy love of their nation
8) Overseas wars on behalf of alien peoples without recompense for our sacrifice.
9) Forced “diversity” with its attendent decline in standards and inevitably accompanying violence.
The GOP has plenty of principles, convictions, and values. YOU must decide if they are yours, or not.
To put it another way, The Ten Commandments To Get Democrats Elected:
1) Open borders
2) A global open market in labor
3) Offshoring productive industries
4) Financialization of the economy
5)) Severing the medium of exchange function of money from the store of value function.
6) Usury as the main engine of consumption.
7) Denying the people their natural, healthy love of their nation
8) Overseas wars on behalf of alien peoples without recompense for our sacrifice.
9) Forced “diversity” with its attendant decline in standards and inevitably accompanying violence.
10) Declare concerned parents at school board meetings domestic terrorists.
In the 60s and 70s, young people used to have “Refer Madness,” parties. They would get high and watch the iconic hyperbolic propaganda film warning against the dangers of smoking pot. The filmmakers took it seriously. But it became a joke, and a powerful example of how young people scorned what their adult overlords were pushing.
Similarly, our youth need to rebel against all the woke crap they’re being fed in schools and colleges. We’re beginning to see some pushback, especially in women’s sports.
These days the stench from the ‘rat party is so overwhelming it must make the GOP a bit more attractive to some sentient beings.
The GOP could do something that might work for a change.....get rid of the turtle for starters...
No problem.... change parties, since there’s no difference between them now
Besides, real Conservatives ignore the ‘media’
The only people they need to look good for are independents. The ones already watching msnbc are already on the left, the rest are centrists who don’t want crazy.
Why Trump didn’t figure this out, is beyond me. I got tired of the circus by the end, and I know so many indies who voted third party or for Biden... and the reason was always, tired of the circus.
The GOP can not LOOK good until they DO good and ARE good.
Get rid of the rinos.
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