Dems’ Election Day Sweep Is Not A Harbinger, It’s A Wake-Up Call For The Grand Old Party

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/05/dems-election-day-sweep-is-not-a-harbinger-its-a-wake-up-call-for-the-grand-old-party/ ^ | November 05, 2025 | M.D. Kittle

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Republican voters didn't show up, and the AWFULs did.

Like Woody Allen once said, 90% of life is just showing up.

[Paladin2]

The GOPee is a moribund org. that is NOT out for the MAGA peeps.

[TBP]

Unfortunately, Republicans have a virtually infinite capacity to learn the wrong lesson from any situation.

[Paladin2]

Didn’t W-Sears also reject Trump?

[Fledermaus]

Ridiculous article. All crap.

Wow, bluest of blue states elect Democrats. News at 11.

[Fungi]

Correct.The need for one day voting is illustrated. The clown running for district attorney who wanted his opponents killed—that news came out after thousands had already voted.

[cowboyusa]

No, it’s a wake up call. We need to crawl over broken glass to vote in 27.

[frank ballenger]

Interesting excuse for the voters I heard is that women don’t like the optics of roughly grabbing and handling illegals to deport them.

I guess the women voters don’t mind having themselves or their little children being pulled into vans and raped by illegals.

[spintreebob]

Sep-Oct I saw numerous “human interest” articles on the ground game of the left. I didn’t see a single article on the Republican ground game. Was there a ground game anywhere? Were voters invited/asked to go to the polls?

If there was a ground game in some places and not others, can the results be compared? How effective was it? For example I did a ground game in an area that had no ground game previously. I tripled the R vote.

Do some think a good ground game is obsolete? Are we too lazy to work for what we want and think that votes are like welfare...we deserve it without working for it?

[tennmountainman]

They are Blue States. Blue States vote Democrat..
That s the way it it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The plain and simple fact is that the Republicans can win nothing if Trump is not on the ballot. He is the main driver for conservatives - the GOP is irrelevant. Hopefully JD Vance can step up and take the mantle in 2028, when Trump isn’t running. Without Trump, right now, the GOP has no chance.

[Robert DeLong]

The GOP is not about to wake up, for they are part of the prromlem to begin with. The RINO faction is the other side of the coin that is the Uniparty who prop of the DDeep State, that no longer cares a whit about this nation. All they care about is retaining their personal power.

Thus, this author is clueless, rendering this article as worthless as teats on a boar hog.

[Wayne07]

“Wow, bluest of blue states elect Democrats. News at 11.”

Virginia has a Republican governor, right now. It is far from the bluest of the blue. The bluest states are: Maryland where Trump only got 34% of the vote, vermont where he got 32%, Mass where he 36%, Connecticut where he got 41%, Oregon where he got 41%. Republicans can still win in Virginia, with a good candidate, and the right conditions.

[Machavelli]

Your vote will be cancelled by ballot stuffing. DEMONRATS cheat, period!

[Shady]

It is time for the RINO Sycophantic GOPeahens to be “retired” and some pit bull leaders to get out there and change this party to the Patriot Party. $38.2 TRILLION DOLLARS stolen by the Demoncrats and the aforementioned RINOS must be shoved down the throats of the voters. Eliminate vote fraud and get us out front of the Presstitutes who are, with the DEMONcrats, ruining this country.

[Fury]

Good post, thanks for thinking about the issue instead of posting ignorant sore loser talking points, which some on the Internet have been doing today.

[Fledermaus]

Youngkin was a fluke. McAwful pissed off voters.

[Destroyer Sailor]

And you know nothing. In reality both parties have the same problems.

[Wayne07]

I think Biden also pissed of voters in that election. You can see the effects of unpopular presidents on these races.

[tennmountainman]

“I think Biden also pissed of voters in that election. You can see the effects of unpopular presidents on these races.”

What you see are Blue States voting for Blue Democrats. Nothing new.