39 Replies to “Mississippi Wipeout”

  1. This last election was not a typical mid term election. It was more like the turnout for a Presidential Election year.

    The usual vote totals for a midterm /non- presidential election are much lower than the 113 million votes cast this November. There were about 137 million votes in the 2016 Presidential Election and 129 million in 2012 for comparison. The 2018 turnout was about 49.3% of the eligible voters, compared to only 36% in 2014 (about 80-85 million votes in 2014.).

    The US Democrats were motivated and won the turnout battle in 2018.

    1. The Deplorables had no reason to vote in the House races. The alleged “Conservative Caucus” had seen what Lyin’ Ryan was prior to the start of the 115th Congress, yet they let him be re-elected Speaker anyway, even though they allegedly had enough votes to keep that from happening. And then the 115th Congress proceeded exactly as one would expect. The House is a rebuke to the Koch brothers and the rest of their swill.

      1. “The Deplorables had no reason to vote in the House races.”

        And yet they did. Everyone’s base showed up, and the Dems have the bigger base and independents on their side too.

        Trump and Trumpism are deeply unpopular.

    2. Rd is repeating Democrat talking points. They stole a few house seats, but the Republicans dominated the senate elections and elected a republican governor of Florida, and ousted a Democrat incumbent senator there. And their identity politics failed in all the big races, even given there huge financial advantage over the Republicans.

      Things are dire for the ‘rats in 2020.

      1. The Dems won a lot of house seats. And they where the gop needs to get back support – the suburbs- in 2020. A lot Moderate suburban women hate how trump behaves.

        The senate map this time around was the most advantageous for the gop in about a century.

        And the gop lost several governorships.

        Last nights victory was by less than ten points in one of the reddest states in the country. See suburban women voter comment above.

        What 2020 hinges on is two things (barring a cataclysmic event) the state of the economy and who the Dems pick as their nominee. A slumping economy and a moderate dem nom and trump gets blown out.

        1. I tend to agree. Despite Trump’s accomplishments, he’s positively loathed by Democrats (but then what Republican isn’t?) and quite a fair number of squishy Republicans. I contend that the 16 election was somewhat the opposite of the unstoppable force / immovable object conundrum, in that both candidates were so disliked and detestable to such a large portion of the American public, that neither could have defeated anyone but the other.

          Now, incumbent presidents tend to win reelection, so there’s always that in Trump’s favour. But if the economy turns sour, all his talk of MAGA crumbles to dust and he’s toast.

          Unless Hillary is truly arrogant enough to run again, because then all of her cronies and hangers-on will once again pull as many strings as possible to get her on the ticket, and then Americans will kick her sorry ass again and Trump coasts to reelection.

        2. Gord Tulk-

          You might go to Dick Morris.com and look at his video on why he feels the Dems will pick someone who is unelectable. It is a socialist party and they will choose a socialist candidate. By the way Donald Trump has not changed since he ran in 2016, yet he was elected then.

          While you’re at it you might look at his analysis of why the Republicans lost some House seats. Essentially they ran traditional lukewarm Republican campaign’s which avoided the obvious weaknesses of their opponents( They are all socialist who spew non-solutions for the country’s problems.) I doubt Democrats will be so fortunate with Donald Trump.

          BTW, Kamala Harris may lose her seat On the judiciary committee. If that happens her battle to become the nominee becomes much harder.

          It is likely also that Florida will finally clean up their Ludicrous system which allows corruption on a grand scale as we saw in Broward. Doing that would probably put Florida far out of reach for the ‘rats.

          1. “Essentially they ran traditional lukewarm Republican campaign’s which avoided the obvious weaknesses of their opponents”

            So is Trump. Further, lots of Trump allies got crushed ex Rohrabacher is gone after over a dozen terms. Kobach lost. You’re in denial and no amount of fairy tales from Dick Morris is going to change that Trump and Trumpism are widely loathed by America. Apparently even a good economy can’t overcome that.

            “It is a socialist party and they will choose a socialist candidate. ”

            Please. Even Obo wasn’t actually outright socialist. Hillary much less so, and Trump is somewhere in between.

      2. small c conservative, “Rd is repeating Democrat talking points. They stole a few house seats, but the Republicans dominated the senate elections and elected a republican governor of Florida, and ousted a Democrat incumbent senator there. And their identity politics failed in all the big races, even given there huge financial advantage over the Republicans.”

        As well, don’t forget all those Puerto Ricans that were going to give the Dems a slam dunk in the Governor and Senate races in Florida. They were all going to be motivated to vote against Trump, due to the media reporting that Trump had dropped the ball after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

    3. hay rd, 14 turn overs by “found” ballots. If election fraud was aver a factor, it is now!!!!

  3. She may have won, but the Senate is 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats. Or are you corrupt enough to call Murkowski, Mittens, and Sasse “Republicans”???

    1. Even by your count, the Rd have 51 votes ( Pence breakd ties)

      The court nominees will continue to sail through. There is a president who cares about this, to ensure they continue to approve them.

    2. Sasse is very conservative – far more than trump. That’s why he’s a critic of trump. Murkowski is a fluke and will be gone next cycle. Collins is in a very leftie area of the country and is about as far right as she can be under the circumstances.

      2. Murkowski lost the Republican primary last time around, remember, and won as a WRITE-IN. Alaska’s an odd place. That detestable hag probably owns that seat until she croaks.

        1. She has never gotten 50% of the vote. The Republican establishment in Alaska will replace her because so many conservatives will abandon her in the general election that she will lose the seat for the Republicans. That would be the end of any state Republican having any influence in Washington. And remember the state ,more than any other state, is highly dependent on favorable regulatory rulings in the Federal interior department.

          1. The Murkowskis are the establishment Republicans in that state. The Palins and their followers are the conservatives, and Palin went after the elder Murkowski’s crew hard while she was governor, nailing a bunch of them on corruption charges. There’s no love lost between the establishment & the conservatives up there. Which isn’t any different from the rest of the country, when you think about it.

            A not-insignificant number of establishment R’s would rather a seat go D than have a conservative hold it. In Alaska, in many parts of the States.

      3. Gord Tulk-

        Sasse the ass is content to say pretty things, Including about his noble democratic colleagues in the Senate, while the country is taken over by leftist thugs.

        He has ceased to matter. But at least he’ll have company in the Senate dining room now that Mitt Romney is sitting in the Senate.

        1. I have been taken-in by Sasse’s purdy words coming out of his purdy mouth. But scratch below the surface, and he is a Gord Tulk “proper conservative” … a GOPe, Koch-sucking Globalist who will sell-out the vast majority of America to keep his check-pant Country Club buddies in cheap Chinese golf balls.

          1. Kenji, I like your posts and respect your experience but my name’s Purdy and I think the actual word is “purty” as in the old sea captain saying “I tink she’s going to blow purty soon purty hard”. Purdy is a Norman name from the invasion of Britain in 1066, it is either derived from “pour dieu”, the battle cry “for God”, or possibly “pur de”. “pure of” indicating nobility. It just annoys me to see the name used like that. Thank you for your attention and consideration.

          2. ITT, retards rage against one of the few Republicans with a functioning brain for the sin of having a functioning brain.

            Sasse has a future. Trumpism has no future.

  4. Let’s see…an establishment republican wins, as do just about every democrat circuit court candidate (which is where we legislate these days). I don’t call that much of a win.

  5. Both CBC News and the Globe and Mail, after falsely attacking Hyde-Smith for supposed “racism”, buried her win way deep down into their respective “world” sections. The national media cartel had the opportunity to attack the Republican, given that the election was a run-off, and the media could focus her dishonest reporting on that contest alone. Anyways, this was an ugly win, but a win is a win.

    1. CBC News spent the first 14 minutes after the top of the hour this morning, worshiping some big old leftist that died, somebody I’d never heard of, but oh the sadness at CBC. A whole 14 mins, starting the news hour. Absolutely disgusting, for taxpayer funded media.

    2. Yeah … now the narrative has shifted to … “Mississippi is racist!”. Who else could elect a candidate who … “promised to bring back hangings – of black men”.

      When the left draw the “race card” from the bottom of the deck … you KNOW they’ve already lost.

  6. Looks like Sasse is climbing on the climate change bandwagon just in time for his 2020 campaign, by conceding the left’s central point that man is causing climate change and the question is what needs to be done about it.Another gutless Republican squish.

      1. Centuries ago, acknowledging the evidence, as you put it, meant viewing the earth as the center of the universe. Turned out the evidence could be interpreted in a far more powerful and consistent way. The AGW crowd has made the same error, in clinging to their faith, rather than dealing with the entire data set , including those parts that strongly indicate the Earth’s warming and cooling periods are cyclical, and always have been.

  7. As we have seen in the last few months in the rise of the #WalkAway movement, much like the Brexit movement and the rise of Trump and now the demonstrations in France there is an awakening in most of the West. People are starting to realize that governments although necessary for the good of society are not necessarily good for society, and as a result the average voter is to quote a certain entertainer of colour,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhuBIkPXn0

    “Homey, don’t play that game no more!”

    The Liberals/Democrats/Socialists are about to have a fight on their hands to maintain their un-educated base.

  8. Would it be a fair comment that the Republicans that lost were the ones not supporting Trump and therefore did not get support from Trump? A bit of message sent to the rest of them.

    1. Except they don’t care. Their end goal is the same as that of the Democrats – One World Government. The only difference is they want to get there slightly slower, and they have a different set of cronies they want to slop at the government trough whilst en route. So they would FAR rather have a Democrat get elected, than a Trump Republican.

  9. “The Blue Wave has come to a screeching halt.”

    …after delivering the House to the Democrats with D+40 on record turnout and purpling Georgia and Texas. But hey you got a constellation prize.

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