I have said here that I believe Donald Trump is gonna be a one term President…..
My sons have doubts on that….
I don’t….
Less than a year out from Election Day there are several reasons why I stand by my view….
- Trump is more unpopular than any President in recent history….
- All of the first tier Democrats vying for the nomination beat Trump in head to head polling now…
- Joe Biden beats him 11 of the 13 Real Clear Politics state polls…
- Joe Biden beats him by about 10% points head to head…Others less so…
- Trump is about to go on trial for several things that we ALL KNOW he did wrong…
- Trump has solid support from fellow Republicans, who admit he does things they don’t like…
- The American economy is said to be strong, but a large among of people do NOT believe that…
- .Unlike the last time?…We NOW KNOW who and what Donald Trump is…
Those are my reasons…
Here’s so more….
Virtually all the reputable national polls show the president is in serious trouble, and I’m not just referring to his job approval numbers in the low-to-mid 40s.
Apart from Emerson College polls showing a virtual dead heat between Trump and Warren, most national surveys show Warren leading the president by 5 to 8 points.
Those same polls show Biden leading Trump by 10 to 12 points.
Even Sanders, who is outside the political mainstream, leads Trump by 6 to 9 points in most surveys (again excluding Emerson, which always seems to be an outlier).
There are a few polls showing trial heats of Trump-Buttigieg, but the few reputable surveys suggest anything from an even race to Buttigieg up by a half-dozen points.
Of course, we all have discounted national polls because of what happened three years ago. But if the Democratic nominee wins not by 2 points but by 6 or 8, it would be difficult for Trump to win at least 270 electoral votes.
Democratic nervousness seems to stem primarily from a handful of polls in a few crucial states, including the three key Great Lakes states that Clinton lost: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. (They seem to ignore Arizona and Florida, two interesting states that offer Democrats serious opportunities next year.)
There are relatively few highly regarded polls in these and other swing states, and that undoubtedly has added to Democratic anxiety.
So has a series of New York Times/Siena College polls showing close races for various challengers to Trump.
But again, we are talking about a handful of polls in states that are not early in the nominating process.
In other words, states where swing voters have not really focused on the candidates.
The state polls show mixed results, some showing Trump ahead and others suggesting that Biden, at least, has a narrow but clear general election advantage.
For now, there is simply no empirical reason to believe that Trump will win next year.
In fact, the evidence is not compelling in either direction. A strong Democratic turnout, including votes from people who voted third party the last time or skipped the presidential race entirely, would put the president in a substantial electoral hole.
On the other hand, poor minority turnout would create a challenging environment for the eventual Democratic nominee.
For the moment, all we can safely say is that polls continue to confirm that Trump is in deep trouble, with a job approval rating that no incumbent president seeking reelection would want….
New Open Thread is HERE…..
Morning People….
BenWikler
@benwikler
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Morning All
Sidebar polling updates…
Democrats show slight drops across the board….
Pelosi actually up slightly in approval vs disapproval….
48.5% Biden to 44% Trump is an alarmingly low margin, small enough that Trump could keep the White House while winning few popular votes than Biden.
Small differences in a few states could, as in 2016, swing the Electoral College. Voter suppression and foreign or domestic cyber-attacks & social-media manipulation could tip the balance.
Not to mention the possibility that a genuine shift in popular opinion, and legitimate differences in voter enthusiasm & turnout could swing enough votes in just a few states.
Yes….
In this snap shot the margin HAS narrowed….
Early Dec the average difference was almost 10% points….
It’s come down to half that number….
Impeachment, as some of worried about, has given Trump a rise in his numbers nationally…
This should NOT be a surprise….
Same thing happened with Clinton….
Attention IS ATTENTION….
Good or bad….
Remember?
The Democratic vote IS SPLIT….
The Republican vote is NOT.…
All these debates are NOT helping Democrats either…..
Wow!
I’ve been the skeptic on this impeachment (which everyone here knows is going nowhere,all these useless machinations notwithstanding) while you are now convinced is a good thing?
Attention? Are you kidding me? Trump is a walking attention machine.
And now you think these debates are “hurting?”As everyone knows I’ve never cared for them and if you’re going to have them, maybe one or two.You?Always lecturing me on how great they are.
As to all this?Uh, let me see now ,yeah that’s it…..
Told Ya!
Hahaha ….
Morning people….
I post about polling just like EVERY other political junkie does….
I point out about silly assed Rasmussen…
Actually?
The number of visits here have been climbing….
And I’m behind those Democrats who just indicted DJT….
“Indicted”
Wrong word.
If Trump had been “indicted” he would potentially have faced a jury randomly drawn and a real trial complete with a judge to make legal rulings ,,witnesses and the introduction of evidence.
Trump has been “impeached “ which is a political process.He will face an already selected jury who has already heard the evidence before the “trial,” a Judge whose rulings may be overriden by the jury and the possibility of no evidence ot witnesses actually appearing.
Do not insinuate in any way that this is a”legal” process.While it possesses some of the accoutrements of such, it decidedly is not .
In this case(and CG will like this)it’s more like a Professional Wrestling match(appropriate for Trump, a participant in the Wrestling business.)The result is already predetermined Now, all that remains is the event itself .
I choose to use the word ‘indicted’ because he HAS been charged with CRIMES by what would more of Grand Jury type of situation….
Mueller would be more of just a prosecutor charging him…
Of course?
Mueller followed the leader in saying he couldn’t actually charge a President with ANYTHING even though he DID actually in writing…
Yes it’s a political animal…
But in fact things from Mueller and The House (Grand Jury) HAVE been laid out in ‘legal’ terms….
Anyone out there that thinks the US Senator from Alabama is gonna vote to convict one Donald Trump of ANYTHING needs top have their head examined…
A new JMC Analytics poll in Alabama finds Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) trailing three Republicans seeking his job by 4 to 7 points.
Tommy Tuberville (R) leads Jones 47% to 40%, Jeff Sessions (R) leads Jones 46% to 41%, and Rep. Bradley Byrne (R) leads Jones 44% to 40%.
Jones did beat Roy Moore (R) in a head-to-head matchup, leading him 47% to 33%….
Politicalwire…
Legal “terms” do not a legal “process” make.Hell they use legal “terms” in those court tv shows.
This is All about politics and everyone knows it.
This self delusion is what I would expect from you though.
I don’t argue about it being political process…
But I do look at it that an American President got impeached in a process more like a grand jury passing up an indictment….
Again?
Muller did the prosecutor thing…
Yes you right on the debates Jack….
But impatience on the Trump trial….
I will get a new thread up and running as soon as possible….
Why clutch your pearls, a poll with higher numbers for Trump.
Silly redundant conversation about poll averaging using shitty polls like Rasmussen over 11 months before an election and without a Democratic Candidate, and James wonders why he doesn’t have more people posting.
It must be those Democrats, it’s there fault for following the Constitution and holding Trump accountable for extortion. Yeah, that’s it.
The question I should have asked last night, how are the debates bringing down the numbers for the Democrats?
After all, we learn such valuable information like wine caves are elitist.
I don’t mind reading about polls, I just object to the mindless and inaccurate commentary about polls. But they do provide a discussion point for the pearl clutchers.
i do NOT think the debates are hurting Democratic numbers ….
I DO believe that Democrats NEED to get behind one nominee AS SOON as possible ….
I feel that things will be settled by March 4th….
“All these debates are not HELPING (emphasis Added) Democrats.”
James @1:31 am
I do not think the debates are hurting Democratic numbers.”
James @1:26 pm
So they’re not helping and they’re not hurting?Then what’s your point?
‘Numbers’ and ‘Democrats’ are two entirely different things….
Thus the view…
‘I DO believe that Democrats NEED to get behind one nominee AS SOON as possible ….’
You are aware that the Nomination process hasn’t even begun yet.
There has been campaigning for sure and polls and polls and polls?..
But..
There hasn’t been one vote cast, not one delegate has been chosen,yet you already want it over with?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…..
The process started ten seconds after Hillary Clinton loss….
You’re bit rusty today Jack…..
Silliness
THAT IS politics sometimes….
Our guy CG really went after Biden for his episode with the Iowa Farmer, eh?
I actually LIKED that Biden got excited ….
Been waiting a LONG time for THAT…
I didn’t know that the guy said he’d vote for Biden in the end….
Amazing!
I find it a little uncomfortable that Trump-like behavior (Even if this is a one-time event) can be seen as positive behavior in the Democratic Party.
I like what Biden did fine….
Morning….
Good Morning People….
US President Donald Trump told a pro-Israel conference Saturday night that some American Jews don’t love Israel enough. He also noting that he did not have to worry about getting his audience’s votes, because they would cast ballots with business interests in mind.
Those comments, to the Israeli American Council advocacy group in Florida, drew quick criticism from opponents and were derided as anti-Semitic….
More…
Most of you have heard about the Jersey City cop shootingS and knowing that I work in Jersey City are probably wondering if I was somehow involved either as the shooter, victim or innocent bystander. Well the truth is that I have been in the office the whole time and I had no involvement in today’s events whatsoever. I just didn’t want you to be worried about me.
I’m glad you’re safe Zreebs but since I rarely watch television and ,except for posting here some, have been perusing sports sites,I am ignorant as to the whole event!
I never knew you are into sports. College sports? Unlike me, you only talk politics here. I go off on unrelated tangents at times.
I follow the NFL pretty closely,College football less so.
I follow NHL hockey loosely and attend a few games of the local minor league team each year.
Used to follow the Cubs and the Braves in baseball but haven’t over the past few years.
Don’t follow baske ball at all.
And, believe it or not?Pretty closely follow Boxing!
I follow the Chicago Bears very closely. If they are not on TV, I go to a local sports bar.
The only other team I am currently following is Seton Hall Basketball. I got great tickets on Dec 22.
Morning People….
No further cuts in interest rates from the Fed Reserve announced …
Hawaii is the latest state to cancel a GOP primary, pledging all of the state’s delegates to the Cult Leader.
Pathetic excuse of a party.
Good Morning Everyone….
Greta Thunberg post coming later….
Trump showing again how small he is ….
Morning all….
“The Hawaii Republican Party has canceled plans for its statewide presidential preference poll and committed all 19 of its national convention delegates to back the reelection of President Trump,” the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports.
The Hill: “Hawaii follows Kansas, Alaska, South Carolina, Arizona and Nevada in canceling a nominating contest.”
Politicalwire…
Well?
Absent the sky falling?
Trump IS the nominee…
Why waste the money on things over already…
Incredibly, Republicans could care less. So much for democracy
I wonder if it is a sure thing that all states will have a Republican primary four years from now? I have my doubts.
With Trump gone?
I’d think things will be wide open….
I think Greens may be right.
If Trump is reelected he could ask the Republican party to nomiate Don Jr in 2024, no primaries needed.
And the way the party is acting recently, I think they’d do it.
Zreebs. Stupid autocorrect
DO NOT have Trump endorse you ….
ANOTHER failure…
Daily Kos Elections
@DKElections
Donald Trump intervened at the last minute to boost Tony Buzbee in Houston’s Saturday mayoral runoff, which Buzbee soon lost 57-43 to Democratic incumbent Sylvester Turner…
Morning People….
CBS NEWS
@cbcnews
Trump supporters at the president’s rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania tell CBS News their thoughts on impeachment and the possibility of his removal: “It would become the second Civil War.” cbsn.ws/34hxSxH
Dave Wasserman
@redistrict
Breaking: anti-impeachment #NJ02 Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D) reportedly about to switch to GOP (h/t @BenJKest @njglobe)
Since there is no realistic possibility of his removal this is all just rhetoric of course.
It does however reveal the violent mindset of the Trump cult.
Ah ,but you know they are for uh
,
“Freedom”
And oh yes they “believe “in the Constitution.
Hilarity
Truth is they are a rabble of crypto authoritarians who have never read the Constitutiin, have no idea what it says ,and couldn’t care less anyway.
Politicalwire has a story saying the Trump campaign thinks their key to reelection is crushing the never Trump segment of the GOP.
I think they have done exactly that. But all it did was move those mostly suburban educated voters into the Democratic party in 2018.
I don’t think there will be an independent candidate of note so I expect conservatives who continue to disdain Trump like Evan McMullin and John Kasich to do the right thing and endorse the Democratic nominee.
Yes I find that surprising really.
I agree.
They have Already “crushed” the NeverTrumpers in the Republican Party.I mean who exactly are they talking about?
I know of no NeverTrumper who possesses any real influence in today’s Republican Party.
What more are they going to do to them?
Per the same article Trump and company seem to think they can win the same kind of tiny counties in Minnesota they won in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Maybe they will. But like the “crushing” of never Trumpers how much more water cab they get from those wells?
So they win a few hundred counties with 5-10k people by an extra 5% or a few hundred votes each. Meanwhile they bleed support in suburban counties with two or three hundred thousand people.
I’m sure that the motive (not really a reason) for starting in on the Never-Trumpers is that Donald Trump cannot bear even the slightest criticism or contradiction, and the closer the worse, starting with personal advisers and White House staff.
So, after having beaten 16 other Republicans in 2016, he doesn’t want even the slightest note of dissent in favour of Weld, Thompson, et al.
This phenomenon has been most prominent on the authoritarian left: Stalin had the harshest obloquy for those Bolsheviks who followed Trotsky or Bukharin, followed by the Social Democrats (or as the Stalinists called them, “Social Fascists”) who were declared more dangerous than the Nazis or the Fascists.
Great historical background that GOPer’ probably wouldn’t want to acknowledge …
They do seem acting like they’ve lost their minds, or are completely brainwashed ?
CG’s thoughts and prognostications about the horse-race, impeachment, never-Trumpism and the UK electons;
http://cgpolitics.blogspot.com/
CG is now conceding that all Republicans in the Senate will vote against removing Trump.
Earlier he and I debated the number who might vote to convict.
Finally …We Agree!
CG had to leave to see the truth?
I have no choice but to point out that nowhere on my blog did I claim or predict that no Republican in the Senate would vote against Trump. People can choose to read or not read my “ramblings” for themselves, but I clearly said that such a thing was unknown and it’s just beyond explanation why someone would try to claim otherwise. There are some people who clearly seem to care about prolonging decades long partisan battles until their final days instead of trying to find something positive about another person on another side or having any idealism or hope that things could ever get better for the country. This seems to be Trumpism in practice.
I have no real desire for a series of “goodbye” posts or to offer anything other than well-wishes to the small crowd here, but it is beyond clear that *almost* all of the people who are most involved here and who want to engage me either have cognitive or comprehension problems about things I have either said or not said that do nothing but frustrate me or that they have malicious motives in just trying to engage me in an internet “fight.” That just speaks to who they are, at least in this sort of format. I used to find being a “punching bag”” to be fun because I could when I chose to, swing back, but life is just too short. Congressman Denny Heck is on to something.
If you have any principle you would be extremely angry at Mitt Romney if he votes to acquit and should agree he would be a major major disappointment. If Mitt vores to acquit I will consider him beyond useless.
Romney would likely still win re-election if he votes against Trump – certainly as a general election candidate, but even probably in the primary. My experience with Mormons is that their moral convictions are real – unlike Protestant evangelicals who appear to always conveniently justify everything.
CG, Thank you for your well wishes. I wish you well also.
Sorry, I just can’t think of anything good to say about Republicans in 2020. I guess that is because I have “cognitive or comprehension” problems” or “malicious motives”. i do find it ironic that you criticized me when I say that Republicans are evil, stupid or both. But isn’t that what you just said about most of us?
Good to hear from ya CG….
We all miss ya opposition point of view….
With you out?
The incoming coming is aimed at me now…
Thanks…
Let me know if anything you post u would like reposted here…
The BEST to ya‼️
Trouble from the left?
Progressive lawmakers and some labor unions are facing internal divisions over whether to support President Trump’s proposed update to a North American trade agreement.
House Democratic leaders this past week announced a deal to pass Trump’s revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after six months of intense, secretive negotiations….
More…
Interestingly,his fellow Republicans over at HHR are much tougher and critical of CG than we are here.
Seemingly though, he took that criticism better.Perhaps it was because it was from fellow Republicans?
Whatever,I’m sure CG will return there for some back and forth.
I still find his departure somewhat amusing.He always gave as good as he took.Accordingly, I think his leaving says more about his continuing “war” with himself which I have commented on since Trumps election.
Since then ,in my view ,he has been in some type of “shock,”unbelieving at his core as to what has happened to the Republican Party which is the essence of his political being ,yet confronted with it daily.Certainly it would change back he thought.All these people he had admired and placed such hope in were going to save the GOP.As time has gone on and his would be saviors have shown nothing but cowardice and toadying in almost cult like devotion to the party’s new master,his disillusionment and bitterness grew .
It had to be taken out on someone.And here we were.
Morning People…
I DID say ole Bernie is the new media flavor of the month?
The Boeing 737 Max may never fly again….
Boeing will temporarily cease producing the 737 MAX next month, the company announced on Monday as uncertainty persists about when regulators will let the troubled passenger jet return to the skies after two crashes killed 346 people in total….
More…..
Good Morning People…
Sen Collins will announce if she’s running again by the end of the week….
THIS COULD be interesting on several levels….
Polling sidebar updated….
Biden slips a bit in his national average lead and Pelosi up 4% points in her approval….
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
In the @fivethirtyeight
aggregate, Trump’s approval among voters (44.8%) is his highest since March 2017! We’ll see if that is just noise and it reverts, but seems notable.
Morning …..
Gonna be a ROUGH day for one Donald J. Trump…
For those who think Pence could do anything if Trump was out?
Dan Pfeifer
@danpfeifer
Why do all these House Republicans hate Mike Pence so much?
BREAKING…
POLITICO BREAKING NEWS
Court finds Obamacare mandate unconstitutional, sends case back to lower court
Published: 12/18/19 05:05 PM EST
A federal appeals court reviewing Obamacare has ruled the law’s individual mandate is unconstitutional but did not invalidate the entire law. The court ordered a lower court judge to reconsider whether any of the sweeping law can survive.
The appeals court’s decision keeps the legal threat to Obamacare alive while reducing the likelihood the Supreme Court could render a final verdict on the law before the 2020 elections.
Politico….
More to come….
Trump may be experiencing the “Clinton effect.”
Remember Clinton’s approval actually increased during his impeachment saga.
Yea
But Clinton was ALREADY in his second term…
And that has exactly what to do with anything?
What that?
Actually, I thought he gave more than he received – and was as personal in his criticisms as we were.
He previously called me a liar and on a different situation told me that I have frequently have problems with analytical analysis. Yet he complains about us for not finding the good in the other party.
He often complained about us being partisan, yet he never voted for a Democrat – even though some of the sacrificial Republicans running in Cook County are remarkably unqualified (to use a polite term).
He complains about us being malicious, yet he freely admits that if he could have gotten Keith fired, then he would have gladly done so. Talk about extreme levels of being malicious!
So no, I don’t agree that he gave as “good as he took”. I felt he gave more than he took.
His arguments were notoriously simple (“A lie is a lie” was his reason for compare two unrelated situations with far different implications).
Jack would sometimes praise CG’s intelligence. I don’t think I would agree – although I agree he wasn’t stupid. CG could write well, and he usually did well in his forecasts (which were usually – and appropriately, influenced by polling), but he had an inability to see other people’s point of view. For example, he once stated “there is no reason to oppose coal production” even though coal needs to be subsidized in order to be produced, it causes environmental damage, black lung disease, and provides relatively few jobs in 2020. As an economist, I know it is never a true “conservative” argument to support the production of anything that requires government subsidization to produce – and that does not even account for the additional problems of environmental damage and black lung disease.
All of us can be hypocritical at times – without even realizing it, but I don’t think any of us are as hypocritical as CG. That is my honest perspective.
Spending time away from us might even be good for him because maybe time away from us will help him more effectively see what the Republican Party really is and was – even before Trump entered the scene. Right now, he appears to just have a reflexive negative reaction to anything we say – especially if it pertains to him.
Au revoir
After so long away, I do feel I should clear the air in regards to my leaving a few years ago. Ultimately, it was not the prevalence of pot stirring from certain posters on here that drove me off—That has been a truth on here for many years now. What ultimately led to my deciding to cut bait was the realization that James was only ever interested in my posts because of their ‘proven ability’ to get clicks, essentially saying that I was some weird conduit for what he really wanted all along, which was numbers! My move from relatively unserious piddle to more serious posts(and, as it turned out, thought processes too) saw him losing enthusiasm over my output and his sharp turning to some of the other stirrers of the pot on here. It was when the invective directed my way started going up to unseen levels that I quickly realized that James’ muted response reflected the reality of the sentiments I mentioned previously. Ultimately, I chose to part with an attempt at a conciliatory word towards the offending party.
Moreover, with my much waned appetite for internet posts in general(I seldom update my blog, and I have torched my Facebook and Twitter profiles), I have had the opportunity to properly see myself as a washed up, failed blogger who(sans YouTube) was never successful at the art of translating well on the online mediums. Sadly, looking back, I now see that I always knew deep down that Jack was right to criticize James and I for the things which were allowed in our time. Perhaps things would have been better had I waited a few more years, but I wasn’t interested in that idea. Perhaps this is all stating the obvious, but it did take me a long while to come to these conclusions.
Going back to the dawn of my days as an online poster, I joined my first blog over a mix of respective uncertainty and enthused objections from my parents, who both cited factual basis for their concerns. A thought that just occurred to me is that one should always listen when people give a solid, factual basis for their concerns. However, when people get emotional and hot-headed(as one parent did when I first broached the idea of YouTube uploading), you can take it as a license to have great fun with your plans!
My aim going forward is both a continuation of my almost decade of video making and a stab at fiction writing(Given my history on here, one can say I’m very qualified for this role!). As always, it is time to ring out the old and ring in the new, exchanging false for true. This is all I’ve come to say. Good day!
It always to good to know our alumni are doing good!
Thanks for the drop in SE….
Good Morning Everyone….
Knocks come with place….
Yes….
Personal knocks also…
But for me?
It’s about offering an opportunity to myself and others to express OUR OWN point of view…
That i believe is living and learning…
Several people have left this place because the push/pull did not suit them…
That IS their decision…
I understand…
It’s all good…
We all should take our own path as we make our journey ….
Politics CAN BE fun and can be uncomfortable
Some people refrain from disclosing it….
That is not what this place is about…
And YES….
We ALL bored and tired of it from time to time and need to walk away from it to deal with our own real world….
I always thought you were an intelligent young man SE with a somewhat vivid imagination that often became the basis for your political posts here.
Maybe I was a little tough in my criticisms;however, it was as much in the nature of trying the get you to examine the reality of what you were writing as anything.
Good luck with your fiction writing .
SE, I also wish you the best in your fiction writing. You write well and I wouldn’t be surprised if you succeed.
You were very young when you started blogging. We always reserve the right to make mistakes -especially when you are young. Hell, I’m still making mistake- and I’m old as sin (but still younger than James). Don’t be hard on yourself. Now go fulfill those dreams!
Good to hear from you SE
SE, I don’t really recall your final days on pdog. You are probably correct though that James featured you sometimes to get a reaction from others. I am not sure that shows any malevolence on James’s part though.
I do recall that one if your posts was one of the featured posts on a Republican blog. I recall the post provided details that you would not know about, so you probably made it up. But hey, you were convincing in what you wrote to the readers of that Republican site! So that shows some promise of your skills to be a fictional writer!
Again, I genuinely wish you the best. Hope to hear from you again.
Fareed Zakaria
His lead of to his Sunday show came with a warning that we ARE living in a ‘Recession of Democracy’ across America and the World’….
Amen….
He also pointed out how Donald Trump an American President and his co-oped party lawmakers have turned on the very government they are supposed represent and have working FOR the 300M’s American’s….
Again?
Donald Trump IS doing EXACATLY what he was elected and still supported to do…
Stop An America that accepts a new world order, were whites are in decline…Were people show up in droves at the border and want to speak another language….Were those people need to taken care of?
Unless Democrats come together ?
Donald Trump IS going hard at realigning America…
Which party in the 1950’s stressed their fervent, unswerving enthusiasm for the FBI, exceeded only by its distrust, fear and hatred of Russia?
How about this decade?
91 corporations in the Fortune 500 paid No federal income taxes this year.
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders
Amazon
CenturyLink
Chevron
Deere
Delta Air Lines
Eli Lilly
FedEx
Gannett
General Motors
Goodyear
Honeywell
JetBlue
MGM Resorts
Netflix
Prudential Financial
Starbucks
Whirlpool
Total federal income tax paid by these companies last year: $0
I am paying $1,000 more with the 2017 ‘tax cut’….
If ya live in a state that has public services and taxes pay for them?
The middle class loss tax deductions
Ya got screwed .,..
Test
Re: Trump’s “improving” poll numbers on the eve of impeachment. They are still pretty low considering the economic numbers.
Yes Bill Clinton saw his numbers improve during impeachment, from 60 to roughly 65%. And Democrats still lost the White House in the next election.
Good points Scott…
In the end?
I STILL see Trump as a one term President…
The 2018 Democratic retaking the House…
The Republican House members bailouts….
Trump approval numbers staying in the low 40’s and DISapproval numbers STAYING in the side 50’s, even among the military types does NOT advertise well for him….
Almost ALL forecasts for the November election right now have Trump losing the popular vote by a wider margin then last time and the electoral vote at 300+ against him…
Add the impeachment and Trump’s talent for screwing HIMSELF and he’s in deep SHIT….
There’s some hyperbole here.
I think Trump is still an underdog for reelection, but not by much.
His present approval rating is roughly where Obama was a year out from his reelection in 2012.
Just shouting “Trump is in trouble” may give you some psychic satisfaction but means little.
Jack?….
Here’s link for ya that describe’s the aghast Barack Obama 3rd to 4th year in office was like….
Taking a beatdown in 2010 House elections…
Finishing up the economy and carrying Obamacare and GOP political knife fights along with flashes of crazy stuff around the planet he managed to pull things together…
His approval ROSE in his 4th year in office….
We’ll see if Trump does…
I doubt it….
Unless he starts moving back to the middle which I see hints of ALREADY…
This weeks Gallup Poll shows approval of Trump among Republicans at 89%.
Trumps approval among Republicans on the day he was inaugurated was,89%.
In other words,all the pure cow manure you’ve heard here about how Trump was losing support among Republicans is shown to be just that.
Listening to impeachment and all these Southern Republicans kissing Trump’s orange ass.
He’d mock their drawls in a New York minute like he did Jeff Sessions if they ever crossed him.
And like Sessions they’d come crawling back to kiss it one more time.
Pathetic pathetic pathetic
Anyways Jack?
Not ALL of them are brainwashed…
Can they change anything?
Doubtful….
Morning people….
Post coming on the lawmakers pivoting from indicting Trump to doing the ‘people’s work’….
Morning People…
I stopped by HHR today.
CG has returned to posting there.
More conducive does he find that gaggle of Trump supporters and apolologists than us “ libruls”
Well, at least, they are all fellow Republicans.
No, they are deplorables and on the rare occasions I post there, I am their “villain”.. the same role you want me to play for yourself.
I really don’t understand why you think I consider you a”villain.”
We disagree politically ,but I don’t consider you a”villain.”
As I said here the other day,you have always given as good as you took here ,in my view.
Amusingly, I probably have a higher opinion of you than those folks at HHR.
However, you may believe what you wish.
I don’t know your internal thoughts, if I wore a red MAGA hat, you might even vote for me to be Soil Commissioner, but you sure go to great lengths to insult me on matters that should have nothing to do with “policy differences.” The bottom line is that you respect pro-Trump conservatives more than anti-Trump ones because it fights your black and white conflict narrative. The fact that people who have “policy differences” but share other beliefs and values in regards to DJT or whatever should actually be pointed at as a good thing. But for some, it has to be “all or nothing.” It’s no different than attacking the Christianity Today editorial as being irrelevant. NeverTrumpers are not irrelevant in TrumpWorld. They wouldn’t be so obsessed about attacking us and crushing us at every turn if we didn’t “”haunt” them and their consciences as one writer once put it.
No matter how many times I explain something, you claim I believe things that I don’t such as claiming you read my blog and I “now am agreeing that no Republican in the Senate will vote to convict.” I said no such thing at all. But you know that nobody is likely to go there and read it so they will take your word for it.
I said it was not relevant to what James was claiming.I said that it was interesting but it doesn’t prove that Evangelicals are turning against Trump.CT has never taken a position on Trump according to their statements.
As to what was on your blog?After rereading I would agree that my interpretation was based on amisreading of what you posted.You were quoting what others were saying without either agreeing or disagreeing.I was wrong to post what I did.I apologize.
As for “insulting “ you?I “insult” you about as much as you insult me.
Thank you for that clarification on what I wrote.
I think the editorial is relevant just to the extent that people are talking about it so much. It shows that there are many Evangelicals who have this belief about Trump but have remained silent about it. Once a ball gets rolling, it can be contagious and cause more people to speak out or at least re-examine their thoughts. That’s how all movements towards progress and justice begin.
It has often been talked about how Evangelicals (and others) voted for Trump and are sticking by him on other matters solely because they fear the alternative so much. That does not mean they do not dislike the deal they have to make with themselves to do so. They need to be called to account as to the price to be paid to stand with Trump. That was the point of the editorial, along with how they are being consistent with what they said 20 years ago about Bill Clinton’s conduct and fitness to be President.
At least if I feel like insulting people for my own benefit and setting them off in the process, I can reach more there than here.
I wonder how many visits HHR gets per day?
The evangelicals are already circling the wagons around Trump and this editorial will soon become a “one off” and forgotten. Because the majority of evangelicals are loyal to their “Great White Hope” and really want to control what goes on in a woman’s vagina.
Glad these folks wrote the editorial, but they wrote the same basic thing about Nixon and Clinton. They have a moral compass that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the white evangelical community.
SAD.
It IS SAD….
Voices crying out loud in the dark….
Former GOP Rep David Trott of Michigan has written an editorial calling for Trump’s removal.
Again another former Republican official finding courage. None in office or in the party currently seem to find that backbone.
Yup!🙄