Millenial millie is great! She does some good coverage of just how nutty a lot are hah.
Here's a good sane analysis from Washpo of all places (surprised it made it there):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...rump-won-the-election/?utm_term=.580e38858c04
@Gomig-21
Dems were counting on a similar wave to what GOP got in 2010 (that dems seem to be wary in talking about now whenever they bring up this as some referendum on Trump's first 2 years).
They might have gotten at least half of it (say 30 - 40) if they didnt abandon fundamental due process (with Kavanaugh) and go all in with the russian nothing burger (and instead actually work with Trump to get some of that old working democrat legislation w.r.t immigration, healthcare etc through). Instead they barely got under 30ish?..and thus very slim majority in house.
Combine with project veritas exposing dem treachery in crucial states (MO, FL, AZ), and GOP actually looks to now increase Senate by 3 seats to 54.
They (Dems) spent 70 million bucks on just Beto O Rourke lol....and nothing to show for it in the end haha...and they are contemplating running Beta as president candidate LOL.
No wonder Obama bankrupted the DNC and lost 1000 state legislature seats to show for it too in just few years time. Dems seem to have lost the plot entirely in how to position and play pragmatically (i.e harness some of that earlier working class street smart they used to have in 20th century till it was abandoned under Clinton).
Redistricting wise (esp if you look at key new england, iowa and Arizona governor holds by GOP, cross-correlated with their state legislature control), 2020-2021 (next 10 year chunk till 2030) is looking quite solid for GOP for both Trump term 2 and the follow on. It sucks they lost Wisc + Mich govs tho, those would have been good to hold for same reason.
Trump now has a big silver lining in that he can attack the Dem house for 2020 on key campaign issues that got him to the presidency....because lets face it, all the dems are going to do is continue with the inquisition ( satisfying 1/3rd of American population but ignoring the solid 1/3rd neutrals that are already getting increasingly frustrated with them and completely angering the 1/3rd pro-trump people that will turnout much more in 2020). I'd say everything is falling into place quite nicely overall. Trump can just get through more judges as needed with no dems or even the 2 RINO ladies needing to vote....thanks Harry Reid!
Good to see Sessions got the boot too.
Heh you have taken over for me while I was away. Good job bud.
The actual results in NYC district ocasio cortes runs in are showing some very interesting trends now (as democrats go full on with the progressive socialism and abandon traditional working class pragmatic common sense stuff that was once their forte):
https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...-divide-wars-working-class-blue-collar-221913
A key bit:
New York's 14th Congressional District is more than 70 percent people of color, and 50 percent Hispanic. Ocasio-Cortez, who was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother, fit the district’s changing demographics, and neatly fit a larger narrative of a national Democratic Party in which increasing progressivism and diversity go hand and hand.
But a closer examination of the data tells a different story. Ocasio-Cortez’s best precincts were places like the neighborhood where Bonthius and his friends live: highly educated, whiter and richer than the district as a whole. In those neighborhoods, Ocasio-Cortez clobbered Crowley by 70 percent or more. Crowley’s best precincts, meanwhile, were the working-class African-American enclave of LeFrak City, where he got more than 60 percent of the vote, and portions of heavily Hispanic Corona. He pulled some of his best numbers in Ocasio-Cortez’s heavily Latino and African-American neighborhood of Parkchester, in the Bronx—beating her by more than 25 points on her home turf.
