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‘Why Would Anything Change?’ Trump Sees Great Victory, Straight Path to Nomination
Trump thinks the nomination is his and won’t be changing plans:.
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Roe Overturn Could Unleash A Blue Wave As 2/3 Of Democrats Now Say They Are More Likely To Vote
A new poll has some very bad news for Republicans as two-thirds of Democrats say they will vote in the midterm because of Roe.
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McConnell Says Control of Senate is 50/50, Polls Say Republican Odds Are Much Worse Than That
In 2014, the Republican party took control of the senate. They have used that majority to wield incredible power over Democrats. The GOP led Senate was able to push through a massive tax break for the rich. They were also able to prevent Donald Trump from being impeached in early 2020. But most importantly for…
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WATCH: Trump Admits That He’s Rushing SCOTUS Vote So He can Contest Election Results
Poll after poll after poll has shown Donald Trump in poor position to remain president. While he’s down in nearly every swing states, polling is starting to show states Republicans expected to carry within the margin of error. This includes places like Texas, Georgia and Iowa. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg threw Trump’s flailing…
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The 2018 Blue Wave Was Much Bigger Than You Think
Many Democrats seem to feel that they “lost†the 2018 midterm elections, but that is not true. Yes, a large number of Democrats are very disappointed (especially in my home state of Florida). And many rising progressive stars lost: Beto. Stacey. Andrew. And Republicans still control the Senate. But as election returns continue to roll…
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Democrats Could End Up With 40 New House Seats: What It Means
According to updated congressional maps, Democrats so far have “flipped†34 House seats. It appears that they might win closer to 40, however, since there are still eleven House races that are either not called or too close to call, and Democrats have a solid chance of winning six of those. Even though on election…
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Factbox: Democrats to pick up net 28 seats in U.S. House – media/data provider DDHQ
The Democratic Party needed to pick up 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. The Democrats were seen picking up 28 seats although votes were still being counted on Wednesday to determine the outcomes of as many as 13 more races.
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Record Early Voting Shows the Blue Wave is Rolling Along
Well over 30 million Americans have already cast their ballots for Tuesday’s midterm elections. Many states set records for early voting even though there were days left to vote. And in some states more early votes have been cast than were cast in the entire 2014 midterm election. And all of this is good news…
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Blue Wave Rising: GOP House Incumbent Is Losing In Utah
If a Republican incumbent representative is losing in the state of Utah you know it’s a bad year for the GOP. And this appears to be the case as incumbent GOP Rep. Mia Love is behind her Democratic challenger, Ben McAdams, by six percentage points in the most recent polling that was done. Although previously…
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Republicans fear Democratic ‘blue wave’ spreading to once-safe districts
But the real reason they were there was basic: Donald Trump. They don’t like the president, and they were not about to vote for anyone, like Brat, who supports him.
“More than the policy, it’s the animosity he is fostering within the country,†Sneed said of Trump.
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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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Democrats Launch Brilliant Ad Campaign To Get Minorities And Millennials To Flip The House
The Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee has unveiled a series that are designed to appeal to people outside of traditional politics. The ads feature people telling their life stories and are designed to get minorities and millennials out to vote.
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AP: Republicans Begin to ‘Concede Defeat’ In Battle For House Control
The Republican blame game has begun. According to AP’s Steve Peoples,  “Republicans have begun to concede defeat in the evolving fight to preserve the House majority.” “The party’s candidates may not go quietly, but from the Arizona mountains to suburban Denver to the cornfields of Iowa, the GOP’s most powerful players this midterm season are…
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‘The Red Wave Ain’t Gonna Happen’ Says Top Forecaster
Larry Sabato is famous for his “crystal ball†predictions of American elections. In fact his website is known as “Sabato’s crystal ball.†He is a highly respected political science professor at the University of Virginia. He has historically been one of the most accurate predictors of election results. And he is predicting a Big Blue…
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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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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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House Races Keep Moving In Democrats’ Direction
With just a month until election day everybody is following the Cook Political Report. Cook is one of the top political prognosticators in the business. That means the predictions that Cook is making about November’s elections carry a lot of weight in political circles. And today most of the news coming from Cook favors the…
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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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Kavanaugh Leads To Record Fundraising For Democrats
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings, along with the testimony from his sexual assault accuser Dr. Christine Ford, have generated a windfall of cash for Democratic candidates. ActBlue, an online clearinghouse for Democratic donors, reported that they raised $10 million from small donors on Friday, their highest daily total ever since the site was founded….
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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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Democrats’ enthusiasm to blunt Trump soars for congressional election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Across almost all demographic groups, more Democrats say they are certain to vote compared to poll results in 2014, the last non-presidential election year.
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GOP Drowning in a Blue Wave Thanks to Record Democratic Enthusiasm
The clues for Carol were in the catfish. Or rather, in the shortage of catfish at a Democratic fundraiser in Texas. Carol Donovan is the Democratic chairperson for Dallas County, Texas, and she knew 2018 could be a good year for Democrats when they ran out of catfish at their annual fish fry fundraiser. Donovan…
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Senior Voters Are Flocking To Democrats Amid Trump Chaos
Polling reveals that control of Congress may depend on seniors voters who have turned on Trump and the Republican Party, and are supporting Democrats in 2018.
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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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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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Women Are Making Waves In the #MeToo Midterms
Women may finally get their revenge on serial sex offender Donald Trump and his GOP enablers in Congress. From all reports it appears that the 2018 midterm elections will be a Big Blue Wave fueled by the energy of women and the ‘Me Too†movement. Just last week we reported that there are over 100…
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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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White House Alarms: Trump Watches TV, Tweets, Trusts ‘Gut Instincts’
People in the White House are getting worried. According to insiders who were interviewed by Robert Costa from the Washington Post, the President of the United States has quit talking to people and has become very isolated. They say he spends most of his time watching cable TV and tweeting. The concern these officials have…
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New CNN Poll Shows Huge Lead for Democrats in Generic Ballot
We’ve been writing all year about the likelihood of a Blue Wave in November’s midterm elections. The latest CNN Poll findings support the notion that 2018 will indeed be the year Democrats take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and possibly the U.S. Senate as well. The poll shows a double digit lead…
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AP Study Shows Huge Advantage for Democrats in Special Elections
This week Donald Trump bragged about how his candidates were all winning, but a closer analysis by the Associated Press (AP) shows that Republicans should be very worried. The new AP study shows Democratic voters being more enthusiastic than Republicans in almost a dozen federal special elections since President Donald Trump took office. Enthusiasm of…
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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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Congressman Says Democrats Have The Candidates To Unleash A Blue Tsunami On Trump
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that House Democrats have so many good candidates that they are capable of unleashing a blue tsunami on Donald Trump in November.
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Obama Returns And Drops A Blue Wave Endorsement Bomb On Reeling Republicans
Former President Obama has officially announced his first wave of 81 endorsements of state, local, and down-ballot Democrats ahead of the midterm election.
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Wall Street Journal Says Trump Wants Republicans to Lose the House
The conservative editors of the Wall Street Journal seem to be fed up with Donald Trump’s antics that are turning off moderate suburban voters while he continues his policy of throwing red meat to his nationalistic base of political supporters who want more tariffs and no immigration. “Scathing WSJ editorial: The only explanation for Trump’s…
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Poll Stunner: Conor Lamb Leads House GOP Incumbent by 12 Percent In PA
Back in March Democrat Conor Lamb set the political world on fire when he won the special congressional election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district. He narrowly converted a GOP seat to the blue column in a district won by Donald Trump by over 15 percentage points. Since then Pennsylvania has changed its congressional districts meaning Conor…
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James Comey Urges Democrats To Stay In The Middle And Avoid The Far Left
Former FBI Director, and Republican, James Comey issued a plea to Democrats to avoid rushing to the far left because the middle wants sensible and balanced leadership.
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How A Supreme Court Battle Over Abortion Will Doom Donald Trump
The most recent Gallup poll on abortion shows that just 18% of Americans think abortion should be illegal in all situations. Â And 79% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal either all the time (29%) or some of the time (50%). As the country waits for Donald Trump to announce his pick to replace…
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Nancy Pelosi Is Preparing To Crush ‘Dealmaker’ Trump
Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is ready to go, and she understands that if Democrats take back the House, she is going to have the leverage to test or crush the myth of Trump as a dealmaker.
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Rachel Maddow Is Crushing Fox News With Viewers That Democrats Need To Get Out To The Polls
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is beating Fox News with the exact kind of viewers that Democrats need to get to the polls to be able to take back Congress in November.
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Trump Is Almost Begging People Not To Vote For Democrats
Trump’s said that he feels good about the midterms, but his tone of practically begging people not to vote for Democrats suggested that he feels the blue wave coming.
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Top House Democrat Loses Primary and Narcissist Trump Takes Credit
The #4 ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives suffered a stunning defeat Tuesday night in the New York state primary and Donald Trump immediately took credit.  According to the president, Rep. Joe Crowley, who has had his eye on Nancy Pelosi’s Speaker position, would have won if he had been “nicer†to him….
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Democrats Flip Wisconsin Senate Seat In District That Trump Won By 18
A special election that Gov. Scott Walker put off holding for months turned into the GOP’s worst nightmare as Democrat Calen Frostman flipped the state senate seat from red to blue.
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Democrats May Flip 3 More House Seats Because Virginia GOP Nominated A White Supremacist For Senate
Not only will Corey Stewart likely lose to Sen. Tim Kaine, but his nomination may cost the GOP 3 House seats in Virginia because he will depress Republican turnout.
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60 GOP House Seats Are In Districts That Went for Clinton or Obama
Daily Kos Elections (DKE) has come out with some new statistics that should have Republicans shaking in their boots.  In fact, it is this kind of information that probably led Paul Ryan to announce his retirement from Congress and as Speaker of the House. At the very least this will buoy Democratic Party optimism that…
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New Polls Give New Evidence That A Blue Wave is Coming
Two recent opinion polls have lifted Democratic spirits as well as their prospects of sweeping to victory in the fall midterm elections. A new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal says that: “By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they’re more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as…
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Trump Thinks Attacks On NFL Players Will Stop The Blue Wave
Trump admitted that he is attacking African-American NFL players because he thinks that it will help Republicans win the midterm election.
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Healthcare, Not Russia, Is The #1 Issue That Democratic Voters Want To Hear About
A new CBS Battleground tracker poll found that the control of the House is a toss-up among battleground voters, but the number one issue that Democratic voters want to hear about in these districts isn’t the Russia investigation or impeachment. Voters are most concerned with health care.
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It Was The Blue Wave That Brought Roseanne Barr Down
Make no mistake about it; it was the blue wave and all of those millions of Americans who have made their voices heard in rejecting the racism of people like Donald Trump that got Roseanne Barr thrown off of the air.
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Stacey Abrams, Others Say That Georgia is Now A Blue State
There is a lot of euphoria among Democrats about Stacey Abrams possibly becoming the nation’s first black female elected governor. There is also the inescapable fact that Georgia has not elected a Democrat as governor for 16 years. So can Georgia make history on election day and put Abrams into the Georgia governor’s mansion? She…
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Democrats Hammer Trump Corruption With New Winning Message For Midterm Election
House and Senate Democrats have unveiled a bold agenda that targets Trump corruption and the GOP swamp that has left the American people behind.
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The Blue Wave Surges As 19 More House Move Toward Democrats
New House seat ratings reveal that 68 House Republicans are now in danger of losing their jobs as 19 more seats have moved toward the Democrats. Roll Call reported, “After the latest round of changes, Inside Elections now has 68 Republican seats rated as vulnerable compared to just 10 vulnerable Democratic seats. And there are…
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Democrats Hammer Trump Over Gas Prices As Blue Wave Builds
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hit Trump for the spike in gas prices that are already taking a bite out of the wallets of every American before the summer holidays. Video: https://youtu.be/3AE17vbAvd0?t=8m55s Schumer said: Few things matter more to the average consumer than the price of a gallon of gasoline. When gas prices…
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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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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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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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Mitch McConnell Privately Admits That Republicans May Lose The Senate
Mitch McConnell is privately admitting that the energy on the left is so strong that Republicans may lose the Senate in November.
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How The Big Blue Wave Might Finish Trump’s Presidency
Many Americans are hoping that this November’s midterm elections will result in what is being called a ‘Blue Wave’ that would sweep into power so many Democrats in Congress that they would take back control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Some people think that the biggest impact of Democratic control would…
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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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Blue Wave Swallows Paul Ryan As 57% Of Voters Call His Speakership A Failure
A new Quinnipiac University poll reveals that as the blue wave grows, 57% of voters think that Rep. Paul Ryan’s speakership has been a failure.
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Republican Win in Arizona Will Not Stop the Blue Wave
Many Democrats were disappointed last night when a Republican won the congressional special election in Arizona’s 8th district, but they shouldn’t be. In many ways the voting results favor Democrats, both locally and nationally. For one thing, Democrat Hiral Tipirneni ran a great race against Republican Debbie Lesko.  Not only is the 8th district one…
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Pennsylvania Republicans Call Polls Fake As Blue Wave Comes To Drown Them
A blue wave is about sweep through Pennsylvania, but the state’s Republican Party is calling the polls fake and refusing to admit that Democrats are coming for them.
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The Democratic Party Just Schooled The Media On Why They’re Winning
DNC Chair Tom Perez schooled the media and the rest of the country on why they are already winning elections before the midterm has arrived.
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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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A Blue Wave Is Only The Beginning Of Restoring Our Democracy
A blue wave will certainly go a long way in washing away the stench from the ever-growing swamp. Yet, it will require a transformation in our politics, in the soul of our country and of each person to root out the problems that paved the way for Trump’s election in the first place.
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Record Number of Republicans in Congress Rushing For the Exits
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are leaving Congress at a faster rate than at any time in history, and Paul Ryan’s retirement announcement will probably speed up the process. When incumbents don’t run for reelection the opposing party has a much better chance to pick up a seat, since incumbency usually guarantees a…
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Ryan’s Retirement Makes Trump Impeachment More Likely
It is 208 days until November 6, 2018, the date of the midterm elections. After the votes are counted it is likely (assuming Russia has not hacked our voting machines) that Democrats will re-take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Nancy Pelosi will be re-installed as Speaker of the House. This is all…
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House Speaker Paul Ryan Won’t Seek Reelection This Year
The Washington Post has just reported through its breaking news system that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will not seek reelection. According to the Post, Ryan (R-Wis.) has told several of his congressional house colleagues as well as his close friends about his decision. They said that he will soon make a public announcement…
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Retiring Republicans Show Their True Feelings And Blast Trump
Finally some Republican members of Congress are starting to be honest and openly criticize President Trump for his aberrant behavior, misguided policies, and inflammatory tweets.  This growing group is called “the GOP’s retirement caucus†and they have become some of the president’s harshest critics. Congressional Republicans are retiring in record numbers, many because they believe…
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Women Are Running For House Seats in Record Numbers
While over half the U.S. population is female, four out of every five members of the U.S. House of Representatives are men. Given the number of women running for Congress in 2018, that statistic may significantly change when new members of the House take office in January of 2019. The Associated Press has reported that…
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Huge Liberal Win In Wisconsin As Walker Warns of ‘Blue Wave’
This is the kind of year when even elections for judges get national attention.  And this means not just media attention but also money — a lot of money.  Yesterday’s Supreme Court election in Wisconsin is a case in point. Liberal judge Rebecca Dallet cruised to a runaway victory that sent shockwaves (again) through the national…
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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.”
