Politics Bad signs for the Republican Party

Good luck with that.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/23/2018-fundraising-democrats-house-races-244044

Democrats’ early money haul stuns GOP
A historic number of well-funded candidates have flooded Republican House districts ahead of 2018.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d...ia-as-he-vies-for-re-election/article/2638306

Democrat Joe Manchin wants Hillary Clinton to stay out of West Virginia as he vies for re-election

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who is up for re-election in 2018, said it "wouldn't be wise" for Hillary Clinton to campaign for him in his home state of West Virginia.

He was asked during an interview that aired Sunday on MSNBC's "Kasie DC," if he was a "dead man walking" after President Trump won West Virginia by a wide margin in the 2016 presidential contest.

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/356548-rnc-outraises-dnc-in-september-fundraising

The Republican National Committee (RNC) outraised the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by more than $6 million last month, according to federal filings.

Recently released numbers show the DNC raised around $4 million during the month of September, while the RNC raised about $10 million.

The data also showed that the RNC has roughly $44 million in cash on hand, while the DNC has roughly $7 million.

The RNC reports having no debt, while the DNC has $3.7 million in debt.

The numbers show an expanding money gap between the national party committees, with the RNC raising more than $104 million so far this year while the DNC has raised a little over $51 million.

 

I'm OK with Feinstein. I lived in California with her as mayor of SF, then governor, now senator. I don't like some of her politics, but I haven't seen that she's horribly corrupt or dishonest. A little too much of a hawk and pro government spying for my taste.

https://newrepublic.com/article/145435/win-or-lose-case-challenging-dianne-feinstein

The Win-or-Lose Case for Challenging Dianne Feinstein
Kevin de León, the California Senate president, is taking on the U.S. senator in next year's Democratic primary. The reward is much greater than the risk.

In the days since, a debate has raged among Democrats about the risks and rewards of a primary challenge against a safe, reliable blue-state senator at time when the party is fully out of power. The Sacramento Bee reported that “California Democratic stalwarts are growing increasingly worried” about de León’s bid, specifically “about a nasty personal feud that exposes deepening rifts and saps resources from their efforts to win Senate and House races across the country.” A slew of politicos used words like “distraction” and “diversion,” warning about “a world of finite political resources.” “In many ways, I find it selfish,” former Senator Barbara Boxer told Roll Call on Monday. “I don’t think it’s time for an intraparty squabble.”

Bill Scher, a contributing editor at Politico Magazine, sees a bigger risk: the progressive equivalent of Steve Bannon’s mission to purge Republican senators. “Bannon and his allies want to remake the Republican Party into a vehicle of economic nationalism,” he wrote. “Progressive activists want a Democratic Party that more closely resembles Bernie Sanders’ brand of democratic socialism.” Progressive activists surely want a more leftist Democratic Party, but that doesn’t mean they intend to adopt Bannonite tactics to accomplish it. Justice Democrats, a group founded by The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur and former staffers of Sanders’s presidential campaign, is perhaps the most insurgent in this respect: According to spokesman Corbin Trent, the group plans to support more than two dozen primary challengers—but not de León. Trent criticized de León for his early reluctance to attack Feinstein directly, and said Justice Democrats would support its founder, Uygur, if he joins the race.

 

Tired of winning yet?

 

Roger C. Altman, a former deputy treasury secretary and founder and senior chairman of the investment banking firm Evercore, has worked on nine Democratic presidential campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s in 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.6563a327a6da

Trump was an election surprise. Expect more.

 

From your link:

Ok with me.

I generally agree with the thesis of the article (not just that snippet).

barfo

 

Expect more surprises.

 

Agreed.

The political climate may eventually become so unstable that somewhere in the country, a libertarian will get elected!

barfo

 

Eventually. That’s the plan.

Flake isn’t running again. He was getting clobbered in the polls by potential democrat challengers and republican ones. I bet he’s surprised.

 

alt right site, salon.com.

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/04/de...hought-and-goes-way-beyond-bernie-vs-hillary/

Demo-catastrophe: It was worse than we thought, and bigger than Bernie vs. Hillary

More than a year and a half ago, I wrote a column suggesting that Democrats should resist the temptation to gloat at the apparent implosion of the Republican Party, because their own party was in far worse shape than it appeared to be. Honestly, though — I had no idea. There’s an object lesson there for pundits: Sometimes you can be so far wrong that you travel the whole way around the globe and end up being right again.