Politics Bad signs for the Republican Party

Two perfectly targeted articles:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/13/teflon-trump-democrats-messaging-242607

Teflon Don confounds Democrats
Democrats have attacked the president every which way, but polling and focus groups show none of it's working.


http://time.com/9207/social-media-is-making-you-stupid/

Social Media Is Making You Stupid

(Granted, it applies to the president, too)

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/32566/61/

Donald Trump is a symptom of a media environment based on short attention spans that is making the world stupider, one of the founders of Twitter has said.

Evan Williams, one of the co-founders of the network, said Trump’s election highlighted a wider issue about how social media platforms were helping to “dumb the entire world down” and undermining our sense of truth.


(It didn't stop with the election)

 

Read the article? It speaks to the voters seeing him, still, as an outsider. As such, he would have to deal with both parties to build a coalition that can govern.

I don't blame him. The republicans haven't even done the easy things.

 

https://newrepublic.com/article/144...h-argued-demographics-favored-democrats-wrong

Redoing the Electoral Math
I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong.

If any force on Earth could be powerful enough to unite the Democratic Party, you’d have thought the words “President Donald Trump” would do the trick. Instead, Hillary Clinton’s defeat last November only served to intensify the split within the party. Nine months in, two warring camps continue to offer seemingly irreconcilable versions of what went awry and how to fix it. On one side, populists like Bernie Sanders and Rust Belt Democrats like Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio argue that the party lost by neglecting working-class voters while catering primarily to “identity politics.” On the other side, an equally vocal contingent makes the opposite case: that the Democrats will blow it in 2018 and 2020 if they take voters of color for granted and focus their energy on wooing the white voters who backed Trump.

 

Trump deletes tweets backing Strange after primary loss

President Trump on Tuesday apparently began deleting his tweets supporting Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in Alabama's Senate primary after Strange lost the race to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore.

Trump had tweeted about Strange several times in the days leading up to the primary, including the day of, but those tweets had disappeared as of Tuesday night.

The deleted tweets included those he sent the night before the election and the day of the race.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...tes-tweets-backing-strange-after-primary-loss

 

Only someone with really tiny hands would need to do something like that.

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...o-trump-attacks-gives-party-cause-for-concern

Dem addiction to Trump attacks gives party cause for concern

“It's like a jolt of sugar and they can't put it down,” Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said of the Trump attacks.

He said Democratic activists relish the attacks on Trump, but questioned whether it will help the party win over the centrist and independent voters they will need to win races across the country.

“If you want to convince a semi regular voter to show up on election day, you need to find something else,” he said.

For evidence that the attacks on Trump are not a panacea for the party, Democrats don’t have to go back all the way to 2016.

The party suffered a string of losses in House special elections earlier this year, most notably in Georgia where they feverishly backed Jon Ossoff in a House race that was a referendum of sorts on Trump.

In Georgia’s 6th congressional district and the other races earlier this year, Democrats were fighting on GOP territory and lost, repeatedly.

“I worry there’s a bit of amnesia happening,” said one senior aide on Capitol Hill. “It’s almost like we didn't learn our lesson in November and it can really come back to haunt us a little over a year from now when it really, really matters.”

 

More bad news.

http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-campaigning-again-doesnt-seem-good-idea-674095

HILLARY CLINTON IS CAMPAIGNING AGAIN. THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA

It would be perfectly delicious to see her lose to Trump again. Bring it on.

 

Admin, not mod.

 

I didn't mention the hag. You did.

 

Bad news when the NYTimes reports it. Especially Frank Bruni.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/...tml?rref=collection/sectioncollection/opinion

Democrats, Please Get Ready to Lose