Posted on 12/09/2025 6:49:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Hello....McFly...”we” don’t live in the 121st House district in GA.
Go lecture them.
Getting President Trump out into the Country is good. His numbers are coming back up a bit.
For sure these can no longer be ignored. The frustrating part is the rats have done nothing to improve their image at all but the trend is to them.
Look where this election took place.
The two Georgia Counties are Clarke which is heavily Democrat (Athens, a college town.) & Oconee which is Republican but has a much smaller population.
I don’t know the exact dimensions of this specific district, but I bet “a chunk” of Athens probably made a difference.
Another noticeable trend is the media playing up & nationalizing obscure state races to pump up team blue.
We had a state senate special election today in FL. The Republican won but it was closer than it should have been.
Only 21% turnout in one county and 15% in the other.
We need to start voting in these off-year elections.
During regular visits to stores in SW Georgia, I saw bus loads of non-English speaking people.
Why are there elections going on in the run up to Christmas?
This is the most asleep time of the year to be voting.
Elections with under 50% turnout should be invalidated.
People are NOT voting and Dems are energized to vote, that simple..it doesnt matter how many redistricting happens for the GOP, if Republicans dont bother voting guess what all those so called easy Republican victories can become Dem victories just as easily
Trump should stay the hell home.
Several Democrats have won key elections around the times of Donald Trump’s visits to Israel raising questions as to Netanyahu’s reasons for meeting w/ Trump....... during periods when U.S. policy toward Israel was a major topic of national discussion:
Tom Suozzi won a special election for New York’s 3rd Congressional District on February 13, 2024. This election occurred during a period when the ongoing conflict and U.S. foreign policy regarding support for Israel-——and Netanyahu’s desperate need for support-——were prominent issues.
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill both won gubernatorial races in the Nov 2025 elections.
Spanberger became the first woman elected Governor of Virginia.
Sherrill won the New Jersey governor’s race.
These victories were seen by some analysts as potential referendums on Donald Trump’s influence on the 2026 midterms.
It is important to note that Donald Trump has made several visits to Israel, primarily during his first term as President (May 2017) and most recently in late 2025.
The election results mentioned above occurred around the
time of Trump’s more recent Israeli visits in 2024 and 2025.
Its all fraud. We’re on the Dominion machines. Both of those public service commissioners were incumbents. We all know how hard it is to unseat an incumbent.
I looked up the stats the next day. They both lost in landslides. Im talking like 651,000 votes to 345,000 votes. Similar outcomes for both Republican incumbents. That does not happen. If they lost in a squeaker maybe you could believe it. Plus in an off year election you don’t get much turn out so now you have to believe a million people voted for public service commission seats. Not likely.
LOL
That is such an embarrassing take.
These people are losers on this site. They are politically illiterate, and they really don’t care that they are.
Wait… what?
That’s pretty thin linkage from this vantage point.
Do you know of any exit polling for the election you mention that Israel was in the top five issues for voters?
Quit trying to excuse the loss. Trump won this district by 12 points 13 months ago with the same exact demographics.
Time to get rid of special elections..let the party of that politician pick some one to serve until the next general election. At Don’t have them during holidays!
brookings.edu
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Compared to 2022, negative views of Israel have risen across the board, though at vastly different rates when broken down by age and party. Pew has found that among U.S. adults, negative views have gone from 42% to 53%.
Among Republicans, they have risen from 27% to 37%; among Democrats, from 53% to 69%. Looked at by age, young Republicans aged 18-49 have shifted from 35% having an unfavorable view of Israel to 50% unfavorable, while such views among Republicans aged 50+ have gone up only marginally from 19% to 23%.
Among Democrats, there has been an increase of 62% to 71% in the 18 to 49-year-old demographic, and an even larger increase from 43% to 66% among 50+ year-olds.
This trend indicates a broader change across the political left in sentiments towards Israel that bucks the generational narrative: It’s not solely young people who have become highly critical of the war in Gaza.
When assessing Americans’ confidence in Prime Minister Netanyahu, a similar pattern exists. Among Republicans, 50% said they had a lot of confidence in Netanyahu to do the right things regarding global affairs, while 34% said they had “not too much” or “no confidence” in him at all. Among Republicans under age 50, 45% answered “not too much” or “none at all”, and 32% “some or a lot.” Contrast this with Republicans 50 and older, who answered 24% “not too much” or “none at all,” and 70% who said “some” or “a lot.” For Democrats, the numbers were more similar across age groups. Seventy percent of Democrats overall reported “none at all” or “not too much” confidence in Netanyahu—68% among Democrats under 50 and 73% for Democrats 50 and older.
Sympathy for Israelis is down across the board.
Since the start of the Israeli war-mongering, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs-Ipsos has tracked a steep decrease in positive feelings towards Israel across the political spectrum.........among Democrats, we see the steepest decline, from 51% to 41%.
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Silly.......some issues dont appear in polls simply b/c pollsters dont know enough to ask the question.
Jews are considered too few in number for polling; because they make up a small percentage of the US population, standard national polls often use extraordinary methods to ensure adequate representation which makes it appear Jews are numerous when Congressional funding issues loom.
Here is how polling on the Jewish population works:
Overall Population Size: The total U.S. Jewish population is insignificant .......a small fraction of the overall U.S. population.......it is too small a number to study with proper methodology.
Specialized Polling: Major research organizations, such as the American Jewish Population Project at Brandeis University, conduct targeted surveys specifically to analyze Jewish Americans’ views and demographics.
Methodology: To get statistically significant results for a smaller demographic like Jews, pollsters use techniques like:
Oversampling: Including using a larger number of Jewish individuals in a survey sample than would occur by pure random chance, and then weighting the results back to their correct proportion in the overall population for national estimates.
Targeted Sampling: Using commercial lists or focusing on geographic areas (such as specific counties in New York, Florida, or Pennsylvania) where large Jewish populations reside to reach potential respondents.
Political Significance: The Jewish vote is considered insignificant in U.S. politics, particularly in swing states or districts with unseemly high Jewish populations, but Jews high voter registration and turnout rates and voting patterns leaning Democratic, have nuances across different Jewish subgroups, making their vote an area of analysis for funding and political strategies.
While they are a tiny insignificant minority group, the Jewish population is routinely polled using extraordinary statistical methods to get their opinions and voting behavior
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