House Republicans know they have a big problem, but they don’t know who to blame. In order to figure that out, they’ve decided they need an autopsy to determine the cause of death of the Republican Party. Although it’s obvious to most people, a group of GOP House members has asked the House GOP campaigns…
President Donald Trump said on Friday said he would refuse to “tone down” his rhetoric despite the arrest earlier in the day of one of his supporters who was charged with mailing pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of the president. The following tweet was posted by ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega on Friday…
With just ten days until the midterm elections , the generic congressional ballot, as shown on the RealClearPolitics average, has more American voters favoring Democrats than at any previous time this year. The percentage of voters who want a Democrat to represent them in Congress is now 49.5%, a record high number. The previous high…
Democrats expect to take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives this year, and they may find that they also are able to take back control of several important state legislatures. With Donald Trump’s historic unpopularity, and favorable demographic shifts, Democrats are finding that they have a great opportunity to win back hundreds of…
College students often have to use the U.S. Postal Service to vote, since they don’t live where they are registered. This requires them to mail their absentee ballots to a different location. But this is not happening as often as it should. A recent focus group in Fairfax County, Virginia has found that a large…
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…
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….
Andrew Gillum leads Republican Ron DeSantis by six points in a new poll of the Florida governor’s race by Republican-leaning pollster Rassmussen.
Now that Nancy Pelosi is finally appearing on the cover of Time Magazine it may be true that 2018 is “the year of the woman.” The Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives is confident that her party will win the majority of House seats in November, putting them back in power and without…
Most people think that if there is a Blue Wave election this year it will result in Democrats taking control of one or both houses of Congress. Just as likely, however, is the chance that the Blue Wave will sweep Democrats into power in statehouses throughout the nation. In many states popular moderate Republican governors…
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…
Let’s put things in perspective. In Ohio’s 12th congressional district in 2016 and 2014 the Republican candidate won by over 36 percentage points, and the Democrat didn’t even get 30 percent of the vote in either election. Last night in Ohio’s 12th congressional district Democrat Danny O’Connor got over 49% of the vote and lost…
According to lawmakers and independent analysts interviewed by the Washington Post the United States “has done little to protect itself against a renewed effort to influence voters in the coming congressional midterm elections.” It’s been over two years since Russia first interfered in the American presidential campaign and although some changes have been made in…
Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forward a spending bill that excludes new money for election security grants to states, causing an outcry from furious Democrats. Amid a firestorm of controversy about President Trump’s denial of Russian election interference there was an expectation that the House would fund a bipartisan approach that would…
The most recent Gallup poll on abortion shows that just 18% of Americans think abortion should be illegal in all situations. 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…
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…
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…
Donald Trump was so anxious to brag about “his” latest job growth and unemployment numbers that he broke the law by tweeting about them before they were announced officially by the U.S. government. Not only does this show how ignorant Trump is about the operations of our government but it also shows that he…
Boston hedge fund billionaire Seth Klarman spent over $7 million donating to Republican candidates and political action committees during the years that Obama was president. In effect, you could say that Klarman used his fortune to help the GOP take control of the government. But now Klarman is jumping from the sinking Republican ship. He has…
It appears that the Republican tax message has “hit a snag.” Nearly four months after the GOP passed their signature tax-cut law in December, new surveys show that most people believe they are NOT getting bigger paychecks than they did before. This could greatly reduce support seen for Republicans during this year’s midterm elections. The…
Democrats have a ten percentage point lead over Republicans in a generic ballot for the 2018 midterm congressional elections according to a new poll released by NBC News at 9:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday. Exactly half of the registered voters polled in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll say they want Congress controlled by Democrats, while…
Trump cheerleader and frontrunner for the nomination, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, could lose the seat for Republicans and possibly hand the Senate majority back to the Democrats.
“The chief executive of the United States, the commander in chief has racist ideas about America and this country, and the American people, all 320 million of us, better figure out what the do about it.”
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.
Those closest to Trump don’t believe he grasps what serious trouble he would be in if Democrats win enough seats to take over the House in 2018.