Politics Bad signs for the Republican Party

Mags and Denny started a Trump forum, Blue runs it.

 

Bad signs.

 

No, of course not. Trump is bringing Somalia here.

barfo

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-run...erscores-limits-of-democrats-trump-resistance

Democrats Aren’t Winning
TheRepublican triumph in Montana punctuates how difficult the climb back will be for the out-of-power party in the hyperpartisan Trump era.

Democrats still aren't winning.

Four months into his administration, President Donald Trump registers the approval of barely 40 percent of the country. He is mired in an investigation that appears to expand by the day, and is continually damaged by government leakers seemingly determined to embarrass him.

Conservatives openly fret about the future of their ideological movement, given the president's rampant inconsistencies. Even with majorities on Capitol Hill, Republicans are struggling with delivering the legislative agenda they campaigned on, often burdened by papering over the latest Trump tweet or distracted by the daily Russia-related developments.

This week, they found themselves attempting to shrug off the astonishing meltdown of their Montana congressional candidate, who snapped at a reporter on the eve of Thursday's special election, allegedly slamming him to the ground and punching him.

The media narrative for the Republican Party in 2017 has teetered between dark and darker. A White House on the brink. A GOP Congress at war with itself. A slate of underperforming or uninspiring contenders.

And yet, the Democrats still aren't winning.

In the three opportunities they've had to deliver a brushback to Trump through special U.S. House elections, they've failed. These districts are undoubtedly conservative-leaning, having not been held by a Democrat for decades, and in one case, Democrats still have a shot to flip a seat in Georgia next month.

But for all the raised expectations on the left and the hand-wringing on the right, the results have been the same, underscoring just how difficult it will be for the minority party to claw its way back into power. Trump is weakened, but far from vanquished. Republican candidates may be flawed, but their loyal constituencies are showing up to bail them out – if only to rebut the narrative they're constantly hearing permeate out of Washington.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/m...view-of-obamacare-repeal-poll/article/2624504

 

Funny thing is Trump's approval rating has hit lows equivalent to his low polling data during the election campaign, and his highs are also equivalent.



Low of ~35, high of ~45.



All that fussing and whining and no real dent made.

 

Clinton voter, former Clinton employee.

http://prospect.org/article/democrats’-‘working-class-problem’

 

Fun fact for the day.

Carter, W Bush, Reagan, Obama, Obama, GHW Bush, Reagan, LBJ, and Nixon are the only presidents since Roosevelt to get 50% of the popular vote.

That's 4 democrats, 4 republicans. Obama twice, Reagan twice.

Bill Clinton was elected with just 43% of the vote.

 

Sometimes I'm downright embarrassed to be a Californian.

This is your peoples' republik:


http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farmworker-housing/