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Republican enthusiasm to vote is building and there is not much the Democrats can do about it. They will not/cannot change. They are way too invested in the mistakes they have made in their terribly inept handling of the Covid-19 “crisis.” They have unmasked themselves and now must live with the face in the mirror. Ordinarily the news of little Staunton Virginia flipping its City Council from Democrat to Republican would be just “nice” news. After all it is in Augusta County which voted in freshman Congressman Ben Cline by a 60/40 margin. So, what is so important about this...

Just over a month away from critical elections across the country, the wide Democratic enthusiasm advantage that has defined the 2018 campaign up to this point has disappeared, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. In July, there was a 10-point gap between the number of Democrats and Republicans saying the November elections were "very important." Now, that's down to 2 points, a statistical tie.

Republican voter enthusiasm is strong even where it isn’t supposed to be. Squeezing the truth out of fake polls is like panning for gold; it’s hard work, but the rewards can be very satisfying. Almost daily, we are insulted by liberal “experts” lying about a lack of voter enthusiasm among Republicans. The truth is just the opposite. Republican enthusiasm is strong and getting stronger. In fact, it is markedly higher than the enthusiasm of Democrats as proven by real tangible hard evidence. We don’t need lies from liberal “experts” to tell us what is happening. We have real numbers to...

This is the opening line from the conservative website Brietbart.com in its response to the initial lopsided vote for Hillary Clinton after the third presidential debate last Wednesday night: “Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has overtaken Hillary Clinton on a Breitbart debate poll, despite a stream of overseas Clinton bots skewing the results in favor of the Democratic nominee.” Let that set in; they used electronic “bots” to vote against Trump. They HAD to do that because they KNEW there is NO ENTHUSIASM FOR HILLARY CLINTON; so they had to manufacture enthusiasm with an electronic trick to make up for...

Earlier today, while campaigning in Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden, a man who can often be counted on to let slip what Democrats do not want said out loud, said, “I know some of you, and some of the people you are trying to convince are not crazy about Hillary. I know that. Okay. I think she has gotten an unfair deal.” There is an old axiom in politics “It all comes down to turn out.” The people that parrot this year after year never allow ENTHUSIASM, the ultimate indicator of who will show up, to enter into their thoughts;...

A just released Politico/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll (PGWUBTP) says Barack Obama is leading 49/48 a statistical tie reached before The Debate. That is the extent of the good news for Obama. This is another poll whose underpinnings fall short of delivering hard data to justify a lead for Obama. Here is the really bad news for Obama: Democrats who Rasmussen reports are registered at a rate 2.6% less than Republicans (in 2010 Republicans enjoyed an edge of 1.3% and the roof fell in on the Democrats) are only 73% “extremely likely” to vote. Republicans who are sitting on...

Conventional wisdom, and conventional hand-wringing, has this cycle’s tough primary fight eroding Republican enthusiasm for the general election against Barack Obama. Late last year, that seemed to be the case, as Republicans went from a +13 in enthusiasm in October to a +5 in December. However, the latest Gallup survey shows that enthusiasm has begun to rise among Republicans — and remains flat among Democrats: By 53% to 45%, Republicans, including independents who lean Republican, are slightly more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to say they are “more enthusiastic than usual about voting” this year. Republicans have consistently led...