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MMC
03-07-2019, 12:20 PM
And a few 2019 bread crumbs suggest that the partisan pendulum may be swinging back toward the GOP in some places. Here's a bit of news (https://twitter.com/RSLC/status/1103098490740199424) out of Kentucky, where Democrats are again planning to spend big money to defeat Mitch McConnell next year:


Republican State Leadership Committee

✔ @RSLC (https://twitter.com/RSLC)

(https://twitter.com/RSLC/status/1103098490740199424)

Another big victory for state legislative Republicans tonight. Senator-elect Wheeler flipped the former Democrat minority leader's seat and @KentuckySRCCC (https://twitter.com/KentuckySRCCC) now has the largest Republican Senate majority in state history!

Sure, that happened in a deep red state, but as the tweet notes, this was not only a long-held Democratic district -- it was a seat that had been occupied by a member of Democratic leadership. The GOP has now hit its all-time high water mark in that state's upper chamber, with Democrats down to single digits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Senate) in the 38-seat body. And as a Republican operative points out (https://twitter.com/davidkanevsky/status/1103105609136779264), 2019 party gains have not been limited to Kentucky:

Let's review the other gains. In Minnesota last month, a conservative Republican won an open state senate seat (http://www.startribune.com/jason-rarick-and-stu-lourey-locked-in-tight-race-for-minnesota-senate-seat/505394902/) that had been held by Democrats "for decades," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

And in deep blue Connecticut, the GOP scored a pair of special election victories (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/gop-flips-two-seats-in-connecticut-special-elections), flipping two Democrat-controlled seats -- including one in a district that Hillary Clinton won in a landslide in the last presidential cycle: …..snip~


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...ourth-state-legislative-seat-of-2019-n2542687 (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/07/blue-wave-backlash-gop-flips-fourth-state-legislative-seat-of-2019-n2542687)


While it is early to get into definitive projections. This does not take away from the fact that these Republicans are winning seats in long held Demo Districts. Even taking a Seat from Demo Leadership. What say ye?

alexa
03-07-2019, 12:39 PM
That's awesome.

Common
03-07-2019, 12:50 PM
Its going to swing back to the GOP but not because of anything the gop is doing, which is nothing. Its going to go gop because the left has started the country turning with their Racist and Socialist bullshit

Two of my daughters diehard democrats have turned their backs on the democrats and are voting GOP next time and other daughters say they arent voting, that they cant vote for this new insante democrat party but wont vote GOP

Peter1469
03-07-2019, 12:51 PM
Its going to swing back to the GOP but not because of anything the gop is doing, which is nothing. Its going to go gop because the left has started the country turning with their Racist and Socialist bullshit

Two of my daughters diehard democrats have turned their backs on the democrats and are voting GOP next time and other daughters say they arent voting, that they cant vote for this new insante democrat party but wont vote GOP
They should consider the libertarian or conservative parties.

Common
03-07-2019, 12:52 PM
The best thing thats happening is that Pelosi is losing control of the nutjobs, that is the single best thing for the republcan. Let them defend ilhan Omar she will say worse things in the future, let them bend over to Ocasio

MMC
03-07-2019, 12:59 PM
Its going to swing back to the GOP but not because of anything the gop is doing, which is nothing. Its going to go gop because the left has started the country turning with their Racist and Socialist bullshit

Two of my daughters diehard democrats have turned their backs on the democrats and are voting GOP next time and other daughters say they arent voting, that they cant vote for this new insante democrat party but wont vote GOP

Well, and its about how the Demos are acting and all of their resistance.

Green Arrow
03-07-2019, 01:03 PM
The best thing thats happening is that Pelosi is losing control of the nutjobs, that is the single best thing for the republcan. Let them defend ilhan Omar she will say worse things in the future, let them bend over to Ocasio
I think you make the assumption that because you personally don’t like AOC, that means she’s somehow damaging to the Democratic Party. In reality she polls pretty well. I don’t think she’s the albatross you think she is.

Captdon
03-07-2019, 02:26 PM
I think you make the assumption that because you personally don’t like AOC, that means she’s somehow damaging to the Democratic Party. In reality she polls pretty well. I don’t think she’s the albatross you think she is.

Well, there is this:

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-approval-rating-1317102

Green Arrow
03-07-2019, 03:09 PM
Well, there is this:

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-approval-rating-1317102

A five point difference with neither side coming close to a majority. Like I said, she’s probably not the albatross some people think she is.

alexa
03-07-2019, 03:12 PM
A five point difference with neither side coming close to a majority. Like I said, she’s probably not the albatross some people think she is.
Most Fox News viewers probably won't vote for her.