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National Security Expert: Baseless Allegations of Election Fraud Are Incitement
National security expert Juliette Kayyem warned on election day that baseless allegations of election fraud are a form of incitement.
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Two-thirds of Americans Say Trump is ‘Not Truthful’
Nearly two-thirds of American voters surveyed say that President Donald Trump “has not been truthful†about the investigation into Russian 2016 election interference and a possible conspiracy between his campaign and Russia. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday morning shows a heavy partisan discrepancy, however. The poll shows the following: 94 percent of…
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Woman Says She Was Paid To Take Absentee Ballots in North Carolina
A woman said Monday that a Bladen County, N.C., Republican election official paid her to illegally collect absentee ballots from the November 6 midterm elections. Absentee ballot witness Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that the official, McCrae Dowless, paid her between $75 and $100 to take completed absentee ballots from…
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Healthcare Lies May Cost the GOP Their Most Reliable Voters
During this election cycle political commentators have spent much time analyzing different voting groups. Will young voters and minorities turn out for Democrats? Will angry white male voters carry Trump’s GOP to victory? Will women voters be the force behind a dominant Blue Wave? With all of this political discussion, however, there has been one…
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As Trump Hijacks the Midterms, Republicans Panic
GOP candidates and party bosses all over the country are in panic mode as they have seen President Donald Trump hijack the 2018 midterm elections. They wanted their campaign message to focus on how great the economy is. But instead he has made sure the election is all about him. With his packed schedule of…
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Trump’s Rallies Take His Lying to a Whole New Level
The 2018 midterm elections have turned into a referendum on President Donald Trump. He has made sure of that by holding dozens of campaign rallies all over the country. But the elections will also be a referendum on his brazen campaign strategy, where he has taken lying to an entirely new level. In every rally…
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Trump Is Already Blaming Scapegoats For Tuesday’s Losses
On Wednesday Donald Trump attacked Paul Ryan in what many believe was an attempt by the president to deflect blame in advance of a crushing Republican defeat in Tuesday’s midterm elections. It appears that Trump needs a scapegoat and he did not hesitate at all to throw the retiring Speaker of the House under the…
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Trump’s Travels Prove Republicans Have Given Up On Keeping the House
The statistical website FiveThirtyEight gives the Democratic Party an 86 percent chance of winning the House next Tuesday which is not a sure thing. But recent travels by President Donald Trump prove that the Republican Party has given up all hope of retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Many people seem to think…
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Shocker: Democrats Ahead By 17 points On Generic Ballot
Political observers closely watch the so-called generic congressional ballot to get an idea of which party is likely to win control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. Because of Republican gerrymandering, it is widely believed that Democrats need an advantage of approximately six percent in the national popular vote if they are to win…
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New Poll Shows Democrats’ Anger May Lead to Victory in November
Pattie Blair, 74, a Democratic voter in Arizona, says that whenever she sees Donald Trump on television an intense wave of anger washes over her. “It’s the most negative, blackest place to find yourself,†Blair said. “It’s like being in a bucket you can’t get yourself out of – a hand keeps pushing you back…
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How the GOP Is Using Racism, Bigotry and Fear to Try To Win the Midterms
It is very clear that all Republicans, but especially President Donald Trump, are growing increasingly desperate as the midterm elections grow near. While they had initially planned to base their November campaigns on the great economy and the wonderful benefits of their tax plan, they have discovered that those ideas aren’t working. Most American voters…
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Democrats Will Investigate Trump Scandals, Including Russia
If they win a majority in November, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will re-open the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. They would like to investigate a lot of other things about Donald Trump also, including his family, his business associates and his cabinet members. But they will have to be…
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Voter Turnout For Midterm Elections Could Be the Highest Ever
The 2018 elections could see the highest turnout for a midterm since the mid-1960s, according to an elections expert who has been studying voting patterns. In fact, based on evidence to date, it could be the highest midterm election turnout ever. “It’s probably going to be a turnout rate that most people have never experienced…
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DNC Vice-Chair: There’s ‘No Way’ Republicans Hold the House
In a Tuesday interview, Michael Blake vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he thought there was “no way” that Republicans would be able to preserve their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. “There is no way the Republicans are going to hold the House,†he said on Hill.TV’s morning show “Rising.†Blake…
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A New ‘Pink Resistance’ Is Transforming American Politics Forever
Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, a longtime Republican, warned her party on Tuesday that Donald Trump has “unleashed a pink resistance that will transform American politics forever.†‘Blue wave’ or ‘left-wing mob’? Anti-Trump fervor fuels a new movement aimed squarely at winning elections. https://t.co/G1qqP6LwPB neither: the pink resistance https://t.co/JYKgRqhK3S — Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 16, 2018…
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Washington Post: Democrats Have an 11 Point Lead in the Generic Ballot
Recently Republicans and the mainstream media have been promoting the narrative that Republicans are tightening the race for control of the U.S. House of Representatives. But a new Washington Post/ABC News poll contradicts this narrative, showing Democrats with a very strong 11 percentage point lead in the generic congressional ballot. And independent women voters favor…
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Iowa’s Largest Newspaper Endorses Only Democrats
Yesterday The Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest newspaper, announced that it was endorsing only Democrats in this year’s congressional races. The respected newspaper’s editorial board said that this year the stakes are too high to do anything else. The Register has won 16 Pulitzer Prizes and its readership covers the entire state of Iowa, the…
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GOP Jams the Upcoming Agenda for Their Lame-Duck Congress
Republicans in Congress are packing the agenda for their lame-duck session after the November 6th midterm elections. Clearly they are worried about losing control and know this may be their last chance to set the agenda for several years. Top priorities for the GOP include: spending legislation, the farm bill, a package to extend expiring tax…
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Due to Trump, Millions of Women Have Left the Republican Party Forever
Donald Trump’s election has clearly pushed independent and Democratic women into action, resulting in record numbers of women running for office, and huge numbers of women doing political organizing and becoming activists for the first time. It is possible that Trump and the Republican are not alienating just left-leaning and independent women voters though. They may…
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Florida Democrats Ask For Voter Registration Extension Due to Hurricane
With Hurricane Michael on a path to devastate 300 miles of northwest Florida coastline tomorrow afternoon, Florida Democrats want the voter registration deadline extended. Michael is bringing to Florida’s northern Gulf Coast its most serious hurricane threat in decades, and the National Hurricane Center has said the devastation caused by storm surges may be greater…
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Blue Wave Likely As Democrats Grab Leads in Battleground Districts
A new opinion poll released Monday shows Democrats with a 4-point advantage in dozens of battleground House districts with just one month to go before November’s midterm elections. “NEW POLL: Dems have 4-point lead in battleground House districts” NEW POLL: Dems have 4-point lead in battleground House districts https://t.co/J7a0R8Cbzt pic.twitter.com/grMvwiUTw8 — The Hill (@thehill) October…
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Cory Booker: New Congress Should Consider Impeaching Kavanaugh
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker told Yahoo News on Sunday that impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh should be considered if Democrats take control of at least one of the houses of Congress in next month’s midterm elections. Kavanaugh was confirmed on Saturday by a narrow vote following a contentious process that included multiple sexual…
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Kavanaugh Confirmation Will Likely Lead to a Blue Tsunami in the House
The good news is that Democrats now appear to have a better chance than ever at winning back control of the U.S. Â House of Representatives with 30 days until the midterm elections. Some people even believe that the Blue Wave will turn into a Blue Tsunami. The bad news is that the slim chance Democrats…
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Desperate Trump Says Democrats Are ‘Too Dangerous’ to Govern’
In a desperate plea for help in the upcoming midterm elections President Donald Trump late Saturday used some of his most inflammatory and excessive rhetoric to date. He said that Democrats have become “too extreme and too dangerous to govern.” After his unhinged appearance at a political rally in Topeka, Kansas the president tweeted: “You…
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After Kavanaugh, Women’s Groups Focus on Midterms
Advocates for sexual assault survivors and women’s rights have been energized by the fight against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Now that the fight is over they are focusing their energy on the November midterm elections. “Mobilized against Kavanaugh, women’s groups turn energy toward to midterms†Mobilized against Kavanaugh, women's groups turn energy…
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Here’s How the Dream of Impeaching Kavanaugh Might Come True
Many Democrats today are dreaming of the possibility of impeaching Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court. This is a highly unusual situation, especially since he has not yet been confirmed or taken his place on the high court. Kavanaugh is expected to be confirmed later today, while tens of millions (or more) Americans are in…
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After Kavanaugh, Democrats Promise Revenge in the Midterms
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court today, many aggrieved Democrats have vowed to seek revenge. And the best form of revenge, of course, is to win elections in November and throw Republicans out of power. A Kavanaugh confirmation will be seen as a big victory for President Trump and the Republican Party…
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Kavanaugh is Creating a Midterm Disaster for Republicans
Maria Gallagher may be the symbol of this year’s midterm elections. It was Gallagher who confronted Arizona Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator last week and said to him: “Don’t look away from me. Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that…
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Trump in Trouble As Polls Show Dems Ahead in Key Senate Races
President Donald Trump’s chances of avoiding impeachment in the U.S. Senate are taking a turn for the worse as more polls show Democrats leading in key Senate races. With public opinion strongly against Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans are taking a great chance by forcing through a vote on his confirmation. Many voters…
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Desperate GOP Is Abandoning Its Own Doomed Incumbents
This is something you rarely see in congressional elections: a national party abandoning its own incumbents with just weeks to go before the election takes place. But that is exactly what the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) is doing to Republican candidates — including incumbents — right now. They are pulling the plug on spending…
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Insane Trump Predicts GOP Victories Due to His Health and Management Style
Despite the lowest presidential approval ratings in history just before a midterm election President Donald Trump insanely is predicting massive Republican victories in November. And the reason for this, he says, is that “people like the job I’m doing.†Trump’s remarks came during an interview with Hill.TV and proved once again that he is more…
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Nightmare for GOP: Many Trump Supporters Plan Not to Vote
This morning Bloomberg is reporting a nightmare scenario for the GOP’s prospects in the midterm elections. According to the business news service: “A private survey conducted for the Republican National Committee and obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek contains alarming news for Republicans hoping to hold on to control of Congress in November: Most Trump supporters don’t…
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Kavanaugh Charges Will Likely Give Democrats Senate Control
A Big Blue Wave has been building all year in favor of Democrats. As Trump’s approval keeps dropping to historic lows, the chances of a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives keeps rising. Last week several polls showed the blue party with double-digit leads in the generic congressional ballot. Experts were saying even the…
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Shocker: Nearly Half of Americans Think Election Counts Will Be Wrong
A new poll provides evidence that there is an increasing lack of faith in American democracy. According to a new NPR/Marist poll nearly half of American voters do not believe that their votes will be counted accurately in November’s midterm elections. In addition to that bad news, nearly 40% do not believe that U.S. elections…
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Blame Game: GOP Candidates Panic Due to Trump’s Unpopularity
With about seven weeks until election day on November 6th, Republicans are in full panic mode. Almost every recent poll shows the president’s unpopularity falling to record low levels, while at the same time congressional generic ballots show Republicans facing a bloodbath in the midterms. Almost every GOP leader, pollster or candidate has expressed fears…
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Record Primary Turnout is One More Bad Sign for the GOP
Many people believe that the 2018 midterm elections are as important as any elections held in American history. This assessment has not been done only by political scientists either. American voters have also given their opinions on the importance of this year’s elections by voting in the 2018 primaries in record numbers. Over 40 million…
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New Polls Show Republicans Are Facing Disaster in the Midterms
Three new polls released this morning could spell doom for the GOP in November’s elections. These polls continue the rash of bad news that has come out recently for Republican candidates. Today’s polls deal with two major factors that are known to influence the outcomes of midterm elections: The generic congressional ballot, and Voters’ opinions…
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With a Blue Tsunami, Democrats See a Chance For Senate Majority
With less than two months until the midterm elections Democrats find themselves in the surprising position of having a real chance of winning a majority in the U.S. Senate. Because Senate Democrats have to defend so many seats this year in states won by Trump in 2016, Republicans have long thought they would increase their…
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Nancy Pelosi Is Confident of Victory and Has Her Agenda Ready
Former Speaker of the House (and current Democratic House Leader) Nancy Pelosi of California is increasingly confident that there will be a Blue Wave election in November. Pelosi made comments on Tuesday expressing her confidence after a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed voters by a margin of 14 percentage points favor Democrats over Republicans in the generic congressional…
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Shocking New Poll Gives Democrats 14 Point Lead in Midterms
The political world was greeted Tuesday morning with some new polling information that will send shockwaves throughout Washington, D.C.. In the generic congressional ballot Democratic House candidates now lead their Republican opponents nationally by 52-38 percent among registered voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. “JUST IN: Democratic House candidates lead their Republican opponents…
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Obama Starting to Hit the Campaign Trail for Democrats
Former President Barack Obama has kept kept out of the spotlight since leaving office, but he will soon start campaigning to help Democrats in November’s midterm elections. He is eager to help his party take back control of the House of Representatives, help vulnerable Senate incumbents win, and help state parties win legislative races in…
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New Poll Shows Massive Support for Replacing Nancy Pelosi
According to a new poll just 27 percent of people surveyed think Democrats should keep House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as their leader in the House. Of the Democrats surveyed, nearly half said that Democrats should have a new leader after November’s elections. The new American Barometer poll released Thursday found that a bare majority…
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Mattis Says He Will Deploy U.S. Military Forces to Protect 2018 Elections
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. military may be used to defend against or prevent Russia’s election meddling in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections — but did not elaborate as to specifically how the armed forces would be deployed. The Military Times reported that Mattis also said he agrees that the order…
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Study Shows Swing Voters Will Be the Ones to Create a Blue Wave in 2018
A new study of voting attitudes and preferences shows that the key to this year’s midterm elections will be so-called “swing voters†and not the voters who are historically partisan in favor of either Democrats or Republicans. This study, called The 2018 VOTER Survey, identified swing voters as those who split parties in their votes…
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Secret “Dark Money†Group is Spending Big to Help Democrats Take Back the House
Secret “dark money†nonprofits are working with a previously unknown organization that is spending millions of dollars helping Democratic congressional candidates in swing districts during this election cycle. The nonprofts are buying large numbers of TV and other ads attacking swing-seat House Republicans on such issues as affordable health care and tax breaks for billionaires. This…
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Desperate McCarthy Tells House GOP That “Nobody is Safe”
A desperate House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has told Republicans in Congress that nobody is safe in this year’s midterm elections, and nobody can take their seats for granted. McCarthy has confirmed that GOP leaders are extremely worried about a Blue Wave this year that will take away their congressional majorities. Reports are that…
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James Comey Says Americans Must Vote for Democrats This Fall
Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday said “history has its eyes on us†and encouraged Americans to vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. Comey posted a tweet urging Americans to turn away from Republican candidates this November. “James @Comey urges voters to choose Democrats, warns that ‘history has its eyes on us’…
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DHS Says Says Russia Isn’t Targeting 2018 Midterms Like 2016
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirtsjen Nielsen has been in the hot seat for several months as she has been caught in the middle of Donald Trump’s immigration battles. In May we reported that Nielsen considered resigning after her boss severely admonished her in front of his entire cabinet for failing to stop illegal…
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Rep. Jim Jordan’s Sex Abuse Scandal Is Getting Much, Much Worse
Right-wing Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s sexual abuse scandal is getting even worse for him and it could cost him a seat in Congress and his party control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Jordan has been accused of being aware that a team doctor was sexually abusing athletes while he was a wrestling coach…
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Obama Warns Democrats: You Are Right to Be Concerned
Earlier today we reported that “Former President Obama is planning to come back into American politics and campaign for Democratic candidates in September ahead of the November midterm election.†And now POLITCO has reported that the popular former president spoke to an event for the Democratic National Committee last night and said people are “right…
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Kochs Will Not Support Virginia GOP Senate Candidate Stewart
The Koch Brothers political network has announced it will not support the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, in another indication of the group’s growing independence from the GOP. Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the political arm of the Koch network, will not endorse either party’s candidate or contribute money to either side in the…
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GOP Candidate For Congress Says ‘Diversity Is A Bunch Of Crap’
The chances of Democrats picking up a Republican-held congressional seat in New Jersey just increased yesterday after a video was released with the GOP candidate making several derogatory comments about race. The candidate is Republican Seth Grossman, who last week won a surprise victory in the primary in New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District. The district is…
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Optimistic Schumer Asks Obama To Help Win Back the Senate
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday that he has asked former president Barack Obama to help, and he is optimistic that Democrats can take back control of the Senate after the 2018 midterm elections. In an interview with The Washington Post, Schumer (D-N.Y.) asserted that Democratic candidates are doing very well in their…
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Republican Rebellion on Immigration Threatens GOP
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are far from unified on many important policy issues. First and foremost among these issues is immigration, especially when it comes to creating a workable U.S. policy on a path to citizenship and the treatment of “Dreamers” under the DACA program. And according to the Associated Press, immigration…
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Giving the Blues to Red State Farmers
Perhaps the group of voters hurt most by Trump’s tariff announcements have been farmers in states that voted for Trump in 2016.  And since many of these states have senators up for reelection in November, the ill-advised tariffs might possibly cost the GOP control of the U.S. Senate. There is no question that retaliation by…
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Schumer Hammers Trump On Russia and Higher Gas Prices
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York has been more vocal lately in his criticisms of President Trump, calling out the president for saying the Russia investigation is “phony” and also blaming him for higher gas prices. After Trump tweeted that the Mueller probe is a “phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt” Schumer responded very…
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Obama Legacy Continues As 64 Former Staffers Run For Office
Barack Obama may have ended his presidency a year and a half ago, but his legacy is continuing in the form of over 64 former members of his staff who, according to NBC News, are running for elective office this year. According to a tweet from NBC: “At least 64 of President Barack Obama’s former…
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New GOP Scheme To Stop Democratic Senators From Campaigning
Desperate times require desperate measures, and desperate Republicans in Congress are running scared. Because they know they have no legislative accomplishments to help them win elections in November and because the president they blindly support has historically low approval ratings, they have resorted to a last-ditch desperation move which they insanely think will help them…
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Blue Wave Requires Democrats To Have an Economic Message
First, the Republicans said they would win the 2018 midterm elections because they would “repeal and replace” Obamacare and everybody would be happy. But that strategy didn’t work out so well, and most Americans are unhappy with the costs of healthcare, as well as the lack of universal coverage. And most people still blame Republicans…
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Trump Says Impeachment Talk Will Help GOP Win the Midterms
A new midterm elections strategy has appeared among Republicans this year, and is being supported by President Donald Trump. The strategy is to stoke fear among the voters that if Democrats take back control of Congress then Trump will be impeached. One can easily understand why Trump would support this strategy. But what is not…
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GOP Right Wingers Winning Primaries Now, May Lose in November
According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican primary fights going on now “are pulling the party to the right, leaving some leaders worried their candidates will be out of a step with the broader electorate in November.” If this happens, it would not be unusual, since primaries must appeal to the party faithful instead of…
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Chaotic Trump White House May Doom Republicans This Year
The Trump White House is in chaos and people know it. If Democratic candidates play their cards right this year, this fact may help them in their efforts to take back control of Congress. According to a new Morning Consult poll, “62% of registered voters said the Trump administration is running somewhat or very chaotically.” Here…
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The Koch Brothers Are Spending $20 Million to Convince Voters on GOP Tax Bill
Because just 39 percent of poll respondents had a favorable view of the Trump/Republican tax cut bill in an April Gallup poll, the GOP’s biggest billionaire mega-donors are spending $20 million in a new effort to convince more people that they should like the tax law change which gives unneeded tax breaks to billionaires while exploding the…
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Latest Studies Show the GOP Majority Is In Serious Trouble
On Monday, CNN changed their ratings on a dozen GOP congressional seats, saying that they are in “more electoral danger” and thus more likely to be won by a Democrat in November’s midterm elections. This change by the CNN “key house race tracker” is just the most recent in a series of developments which point to…
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Evangelical Meeting May Signal the End of Trump’s Presidency
Seeing Donald Trump holding a Bible and pretending to be a religious leader is enough to short circuit every synapse in one’s brain. Yet here we are, deep into the second year of Trump’s presidency and he is still being supported by the vast majority of people who consider themselves Evangelical Christians. How can these…
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New Democratic Coalition Means Doom For Republicans
The results in Arizona’s special congressional election were a wake-up call for Republicans who have been used to hitting the snooze button in recent years. An Arizona GOP polling expert, Mike Noble, said: “Republicans shouldn’t be hitting the alarm, they should be slamming it. This district isn’t supposed to be competitive, and so to see…
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New Government Report Confirms Trump Tax Cut Favors the Super Rich
Most Americans think that the Trump/Republican tax bill passed last December was a bad idea, and a new report from the Joint Committee on Taxation shows why. The report was released on Monday and it should come as no surprise that the Joint Committee found that most of the law’s tax breaks go to the…
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Missouri GOP Problems Will Help Sen. Claire McCaskill Win Again
Right on cue, the Republican Party in the state of Missouri is falling apart just in time to help Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in her bid to win re-election in this fall’s midterm elections. Many people remember how McCaskill won her senate seat six years ago when her opponent Todd Akin went off the deep…
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Ryan, McConnell Fight As GOP Election Strategy Crashes
Republicans are fighting among themselves again in the U.S. Congress, and this is a bad sign for their chances in November’s midterm elections. Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) is pushing hard to get another misguided and harmful tax cut passed in the next few months. For some reason he thinks this will…
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NJ Poll: GOP May Lose All New Jersey Seats in Congress
If pollsters at Monmouth University are correct, the Republican Party this year will lose all five of the seats it currently holds in the U.S. House of Representatives. This would be a substantial percentage of the 23 seats needed to give Democrats control of Congress after the 2018 midterm elections. The Monmouth University Poll was…
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How Democrats Can Use Healthcare to Win Big in 2018 Midterms
Consider these separate but related news items: The cost and availability of health care is the #1 issue that Americans care about right now, according to the Gallup poll. The Gallup poll for the last year has been showing that Obamacare (ACA) is approved of by over half of American voters. A new HuffPost/YouGov poll shows…
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Why Democrats Will Win Midterms Despite a Booming Economy
The economy is soaring, and so is public optimism about the economy.  You would think this should result in President Trump having high approval ratings, but that is not the case.  Trump’s approval rating based on the average of public opinion polls is stuck at around 41%. This is an historically low number. You…
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MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki Warns Trump And GOP About The Massive Blue Wave Coming In 2018
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“Trump’s very much in line here with what you’d expect to see from a president whose party takes a shellacking in a midterm election.”
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Anti-Trump Wave Coming In 2018 As Democrats Hold 15-Point Lead Over Republicans
Democrats have a huge advantage over Republicans in a generic ballot match-up, with midterm campaign season around the corner.
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GOP Is Starting To Panic About 2018 As Democrats Quietly Outperform In Special Elections
It’s hard to gauge the outcome of midterm elections more than a year before they’re held, but Donald Trump’s presidency has motivated progressive and moderate voters in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
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GOP Panicking As Majority Of Voters In Key 2018 States Are Unhappy With Trump
In record time, most voters are seeing that Trump is just a con artist who cares nothing about making life better for average Americans.
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The Significant Role That Stupidity Played in Republicans Winning Control of Congress
The sad fact is that the stupidity that drove the results of the midterms is not reserved to the Republican base, or Democratic voters would not have stayed home in a repeat performance of the devastating 2010 midterms.
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Women’s Greatest Enemy Is Evangelical Women, Not Republican Men
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
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Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
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Joni Ernst Promises Americans a Very Painful Lesson If Elected
Ernst’s treatise on government dependency revealed that not only is she a hard line devotee of tea party orthodoxy, she has a perverse vision of America’s 20th Century as a monumental error; because like the Koch’s she sees government for the people as an abomination that needs to be abolished once and for all.
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Here’s More Great Economic News For Democrats To Hammer Republicans With
There has been relative silence on two new economic reports that put a stake in the economic agenda Republicans are frothing at the mouth to enact should they win control of Congress.
Republicans Are Unhinged and Terrified of Good Economic Reports
Despite their Herculean efforts to bankrupt America though, another report this week revealed the economy is on the mend despite the GOP plot to obstruct the new President’s attempt to turn around the economic disaster eight years of Republicans’ drunken spending spree on the nation’s credit card.
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Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster
Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has done nothing Republicans promise and everything Democrats warned will come to pass. If he has accomplished nothing else, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has given Democrats and all of America a preview of precisely what a Republican Congress will do to America.
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The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the GOP Are Trying To Win The Election By Destroying Democracy
Crucial to their success is Republicans’ heavy dependence on one of the Koch brothers’ legislative arms, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create template legislation for Republicans to block access to voting in what can only be termed as a direct assault on America’s rapidly waning democracy.
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With Nothing To Run On Republicans Blow Religious Dog Whistles
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
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Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
