Democrat Katie Porter unseats GOP's Mimi Walters

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/414712-democrat-katie-porter-unseats-gops-mimi-walters

 

The Never Nancy movement is gaining legs

The never Nancy movement has more legs than a supermodel millipede, and the cause to squash Pelosi's hopes is gaining speed. In a caucus where members are delivered iron clad talking points they are expected to deliver in lock step,

At least 17 have already broken rank and have signed a declaration they will *not* support the Democrat vampiress for another run at her fascist gavel.

From Oregon to Colorado, from Texas to Tennessee and all points in between, this disquieted rare pack of independents are making moves to block Nancy's next coronation.

 

The interesting thing is, it appears a lot of the protests are because pelosi isn't liberal enough.

 

Marcia Fudge is really eyeing and fighting for the Speaker seat, in which she is about as liberal as it can get.

Her Constitutional Conservative voting is around 4%, Tim Ryan is really pushing to oust Pelosi, and he is ranked identical to Fudge...4%

The bad thing is they both represent my State.

 

How badly they did? One of the most successful mid-terms as far as shellackings go.


If the midterms were a referendum, Trump won


11/16/18

After flipping dozens of seats in the midterm elections, Democrats are set to take control of the House of Representatives. Many pundits and analysts have attempted to frame the results as a referendum on President Trump. Among these, there seems to be a consensus that the president has somehow been “repudiated.”

Not so fast.

To be sure, there are reasons for Democrats to cheer: Despite significant structural disadvantages and a difficult Senate map, some great ballot initiatives were passed, state legislatures got bluer in many instances, and Democrats won governorships in some key states. These are worth celebrating (in contrast with claims to have “won the popular vote,” which are spurious). Yet, on balance, Democrats should be more disturbed than comforted by how the elections shook out.

For instance, turnout was much higher than in 2014. However, the increased engagement proved to be bipartisan: Trump’s supporters also showed up in force, significantly undercutting the expected “blue wave.”

Yes, Republicans ultimately lost control of the House — but even here, the Democrats’ continued weakness shines through:

It was expected that the Republicans would lose a significant number of seats, irrespective of public opinions about Trump. Republicans had many more difficult House seats to defend than Democrats overall. There were twice as many Republican incumbents defending House seats in states Hillary Clinton won in 2016 than there were Democrats defending seats in states Trump won.

Republicans also had more than twice as many “open” House seats to hold on to as their Democratic rivals had: 36 Republican representatives chose not to stand for reelection this year because they were retiring or seeking another office. Seven others either resigned or otherwise left office before the election. As a result, Republicans had 43 House seats to defend without the benefit of a true incumbent candidate. On top of this, Republicans had three “open” Senate seats, and one more with a pseudo-incumbent (interim Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith took office in April).

Yet Democrats managed to win surprisingly few of these “open” contests. In the vast majority of cases, a new Republican was elected instead, and they tended to be even closer to Trump than their predecessors. So Trump actually cemented his hold over the Republican Party: Most of his staunchest Republican critics have either stepped down, been removed through a primary challenge or otherwise failed to win reelection. On top of this, many of the Senate Democrats who voted against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh from the states that Trump won in 2016 were voted out of office and replaced by Republicans.

Historically speaking, Democrats delivered a thoroughly average result in their first round as Trump’s opposition. Going all the way back to the Civil War, there were only two instances when a new party seized the presidency but didn’t lose seats in the House during their first midterm elections: Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 (during the Great Depression), and President George W. Bush in 2002 (in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attacks). Even including these outliers, the average attrition during a party’s inaugural midterms is 35 House seats; excluding these two exceptions, the average loss is 41. Regardless of which number we run with, Trump could end up performing better than average in preserving his party’s influence in the House. He performed much better than his last two Democratic predecessors: Bill Clinton lost control of both chambers in the 1994 midterm elections. Barack Obama saw historic losses in the House in 2010, and lost seats in the Senate as well — the most sweeping congressional reversal in 62 years.

Yet, not only did Trump suffer far less attrition than Obama or Clinton in the House, his party will gain in the Senate. This may not be surprising given the slanted map against Democrats. It is also somewhat typical overall: Between 1862 and 2014, the president’s party picked up seats in the Senate during their first midterms 56 percent of the time, lost seats 37 percent of the time and broke even once. In other words, there did not seem to be a thorough rebuke of Trump. In fact, there was little exceptional in the results at all, beyond the fact that they were so very normal.

Truth told, elections are complex social events, and it is difficult to determine (let alone predict) what matters, how much it matters and in what sense it matters. We’re still arguing over what happened in 2016! Yet one thing we do know is that the 2018 election results were consistent with the norm for a ruling party’s initial midterms. This reality should make Democrats deeply anxious because, as I’ve demonstrated elsewhere, if the 2020 presidential election similarly conforms to historical tendencies, the odds are roughly 8 to 1 that Trump wins reelection.

Indeed, the president’s inaugural midterm results are eerily similar to those of another entertainment-star turned political game-changer: Ronald Reagan. In 1982, his party lost 26 seats in the House — but picked up one seat in the Senate. He, too, faced a split Congress. His approval rating going into those midterms was also in the low 40s. He went on to win reelection by a landslide in 1984.

 

Democrat Gil Cisneros Wins GOP Seat in California, Completing Blue Wave in Orange County

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democ...ifornia-completing-blue-wave-in-orange-county

 

speaking of nut jobs, Governor moonbeam is credited with some of the ............ most .............. unusual ............. quotes ...

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Has anyone had a mental health evaluation done on this ............. Governor?

 

Can you see the color of the Sate of California?...(HINT... it's the one way over there on the left, way way over there.) I can, it's blue.

To listen to you, one would think something miraculous happened.

T

 

And once again notice how we are just supposed to suspend disbelief? The Orange County the Democrats just steamrolled in California isn't just a Republican stronghold for decades it is actually the birthplace of Reagan conservatism. No one would have ever believed the Democrats could just wipe the Republicans out there. But they did.

 

Oh for christ sakes here.

Listen up kid, the Reagan conservatives have all died off, it's a new era of money and youth, it was inevitable.

Not to mention a county full of transients.

 

Nate Silver says media missed massive ‘blue wave’ while covering ‘stories about Trump voters in truck stops’

 

Guess the idea that the number of spins applied do not change the outcome, is a foreign concept. Democrats still failed to take Congress, which would have been a genuine “Blue Wave”. But, if it makes them feel better, great. They’ll likely get so over confident that 2020 will be a repeat performance of 2016.

 

Scott defeats Nelson in Florida. Nelson has called Scott to concede. Scott was leading Nelson by 10,000 votes at Sunday's noon deadline and Broward County officials missed the deadline again, which sealed the deal. You gotta give em' credit they just wouldn't give up trying to steal the election.

 

Brian Williams reports Democrats may have picked up over 40 House seats in the midterms: ‘Looks like a blue wave’

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/br...40-house-seats-midterms-looks-like-blue-wave/

 

Well, to a thirsty man a bucket of water might look like a tsunami.

Naw.

But really, a blue wave would be taking both houses like the deplorables did in 2014.

The despicables need to take their win, give thanks, and move on. All this crowing just makes them look pathetic.

 

It is so fucking hilarious to see Trump supporters try to down play the Democratic Blue wave after the way the went nuts over the 2010 midterms and the Tea Party wins when the Republicans also didn't take the Senate and the Tea Party and Republicans won fewer seats than the Democrats just did.

 

Typical leftist talking points.

Clinton lost 60 seats to the GOP during his first midterm, Obama lost damn near 70 to the GOP during his first midterm, they gained 40 seats in the House, and what did the GOP gain in the Senate?...5 or so?

Now I ask you.....what actual power did the left gain during the '18 midterms?

Trump can VETO their budget, the Senate can hold the leftist antics and stop them dead in the water, where is the power at for the leftists?..I have that answer for you, the only power the left has is the media, and the people are catching on to that.

Trump will work with the democrats that have some sense of accountability and pen rational and reasonable legislation.

But hey...who am I to take your thunder away....party on Garth.

 

Mia Love in deep red Utah just lost.

And what did the Democrats win? Subpoena power. And a lot more including redistricting.

 

Subpoena what?

33,000 lost e-mails...

Or something better than that....Trumps tax returns?

As for redistricting, eh, people move, people have a change in voting habits, alot of registered Democrats voted for Trump.

So, essentially the left hasn't gotten much power..

2010, the GOP said ''we cant do anything''

2012, the GOP said ''we cant do anything''

2014, the GOP said ''we cant do anything''

2016, the GOP said, ''we can do anything, and we will''

2018, the GOP said, ''Impeach?, be careful democrats''