The release of the latest Gallup poll was hardly surprising in finding that most Americans are deeply upset about this election and the state of our political system. After all, the two major parties that control this nation have given voters the two most unpopular candidates in the history of presidential politics to choose between. In speaking around the country, I have been struck with how angry people are in both liberal and conservative areas. Yet, what really surprised me is that there are 28 percent of Americans who are actually satisfied with our political system and this election. Who are these people?
One answer is that they are more like to be Democrats. Some 49 percent of Democrats are actually satisfied with this political morass. Only 8 percent of Republicans say that they are satisfied.
The historical average for Gallup has been 37 percent, which itself is chilling evidence that our political system has not been embraced by even a bare majority in the entire time (since 1979) that Gallup has been polling on the question.
What is also surprising is that this satisfaction figure is up. In August, it was only 17 percent.
I cannot imagine a citizen looking at this process and feeling satisfied, even if you support one of the candidates. This election has reaffirmed to many that the duopoly of power in this country has reached a truly absurd and disconnected state with the electorate. On the Democratic side, Wikileaks has confirmed an effort by DNC officials and various media figures to guarantee Clinton’s nomination. Over half of voters view the entire system as rigged. On the Republican side, the opposition to Trump is now so great that the Democrats could win the Senate and the Supreme Court as well as the White House by simple default. Both candidates are viewed as thoroughly dishonest by the vast majority of voters.
Yet, over one in four of us are sitting at home and saying “I like this. This is good.”
One would be tempted to declare democracy a failed experiment but this is not what the framers envisioned. It is however what George Washington envisioned when he warned against political parties:
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
We are the nation that produced Washington, Madison, and other great leaders. Yet, over a quarter of us think this selection is just fine. Washington was wrong about his hope for a system without parties. It was inevitable. However, we control our political system and we can change it. I have written previously about such reforms (here and here). Hopefully, the other three-quarters of disgusted voters may finally be sufficiently disgusted to take action.
As someone who won’t be voting for either of the mainstream candidate, I find Trump the lesser evil.
He is a product of the democratic process. Had Hillary and crew not cheated Sanders out the nomination, she wouldn’t even be in the running.
The movie is Swedish and subtitled so it is in limited release. I liked “Hell or High Water” a lot, too.
Yes, SWM. We briefly discussed Hell or High Water back when it was on limited release. Has a Cohen Brothers feel to it. All characters were cast superbly. Just some great scenes. I love the scene when Bridges and his partner run into the crusty older waitress and learn just what they will be ordering for supper.
SWM and Autumn, You two good fine should be on good terms here. I mean you will battle over politics. There’s nothing wrong w/ battling. But, you both have good hearts.
I love it when someone whose opinion I respect gives me a lead on a movie I’ve never heard. A Man Called Ove just got put on my short list.
whoops got her name wrong. should be Astrid Lindgren
The name is “A Man called Ove”.
I agree with Nick. You are much more pleasant to interact with when you drop the HRC nonsense. I just read “My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” by the same author. A great and moving novel. I have yet to read “A Man Called Ove” but am looking forward to it. He sends thanks to Austrid Lundgren — the author of the Pippi Longstocking series which was a staple of my childhood. Maybe Sweden will still survive at least in the arts b/c they are being pummeled by excessive, unvetted immigration…..
Autumn, Aside from politics, I like SWM. She and I share a love of movies, food, and other topics. Unfortunately, she only joins in on political topics. I miss talking about fun stuff w/ her. I don’t know if SWM would register a dead person? Illegal alien or felon..maybe.
Saw “Story of Ove” on the weekend. Highly recommend it. 🙂
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/a-union-is-building-a-wall-of-taco-trucks-outside-trumps-las?utm_term=.bmAVv91Qr#.ql93b0xrv “AS VEGAS — “A wall is going up outside the Trump International Las Vegas hotel Wednesday morning.
The Culinary Union, long a Donald Trump antagonist in Las Vegas, is going to “build” a wall of taco trucks outside Trump’s hotel, just a couple miles from UNLV, site of the final presidential debate.
The groups aim to have at least five taco trucks outside the hotel, in addition to a banner in the style of a wall that participants will be able to sign.
“We’re reminding Mr. Trump that immigrant workers here and across the country will be watching the debate and voting in November,” said Yvanna Cancela, the political director for the majority Latino and predominantly immigrant union.
The Culinary Union has held nearly 10 rallies outside Trump’s hotel since workers voted to unionize and won last December. They argue that Trump is illegally refusing to bargain with them.
The union will be joined by American Bridge, Latino Victory Project, PLAN Action, iAmerica Action, Center for Community Change Action, For Our Future, and 50 immigrant advocacy activists from Los Angeles and feature speakers like Democrat Ruben Kihuen, who is running to represent the 4th Congressional District in the House.” Trump is not pro-worker.
SWM, We get the Hillary propaganda EVERYWHERE else, we don’t need your robotic talking points here. They’re lame as your candidate.
Folks, SWM is a Clintonista who appears here on occasion to do Dem propaganda. She is to be found amusing, not taken seriously. She would do anything for Hillary, including voting in several states. Of course Dems are the most happy w/ this election. They are soulless, just like their candidate.
Nick, you make me laugh =) SWM should not waste her energy on this blog – she should be busy registering the dead to vote.
Damn, I wish I could still vote in Texas. It is close there.:) Looks liked THE DONALD has pissed off women and Latinos everywhere.
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JR I agree with your statement, but in addition to low information voters, may I add those voters who do not want to know about corruption and lies. They become agitated if you present any evidence of HRC’s corruption or bad acts (just look at how the media responds); they literally do not want to know in order to make their vote easier on their conscience. It’s not just the uninformed, it’s the Machiavellian masses willing to do anything, as long as the other side does not behave the same. Then it would be categorically wrong.
This firebombing of the GOP headquarters, and swastikas written on Trump signs, reminds me of that scandal at a university with a poop swastika. Some of us were thinking it was unlikely that a true neo Nazi would write their sacred symbol in feces. But there was this steam roller of sentiment that the KKK was setting up shop.
But here, we have firebombing of political opponents and swastikas written on his signs, and otherwise removed, run over, or vandalized, but it’s all OK.
Good point Karen, these are folks who fascinate me. They are able to turn a blind eye to the overwhelming evidence. It’s almost like they are projecting their ideals onto Clinton who knows it and laughs at them.
Quite right Karen S. The Hilbots can be a violent lot – when I’m in an area that is Liberal-heavy I remove my “lock her up” and “Hillary for Prison” bumper stickers. I have personally experienced some serious hate because I am Bernieorbust and am voting for Jill Stein. I have never had any problem with Trump supporters.
We don’t know who firebombed GOP headquarters. Could be an inside job. That is why there is an investigation
Karen, add as you will. It’s a big tent that as it happens includes the willfully blind.
The Democrats who like their candidate are in two groups: 1. low information voters. Don’t know much, don’t care. 2. high information voters. These are people who know what they’re getting from Clinton. They love her policies. The banking and military contractors along with foreign dictatorships are her most fervent supporters. Of course you have other wealthy elites who will benefit financially and really don’t give a crap if people starve or die, just as long as they are getting theirs.
I guess I should add a third group. These are people who think they will benefit. They are lower down in the pipeline and will get favors as long as they are useful. These are the people who will be utterly betrayed when they are no longer useful. Of course, they never minded selling out others for a paycheck or a little access, but it will be interesting when they find themselves in the throw away group. They are as expendable to the oligarchy as other people are to them right now.
Damn Jill – you save me from posting! =) Well-stated my friend! Since the Wikileak Podesta emails came out I have noticed my Hilbot friends seem more glum than usual. Working on getting them to vote for Jill.
I suspect the 49% of Democrats satisfied with the election are hard core partisans delighted with with the prospect of a landslide of an opponent who should be easy to beat. I further suspect most of these people fall into one of five camps: 1) Wall Streeters who enjoy the way that financial regulation and the Federal Reserve have rigged the game in their favor; 2) educators looking forward to even more money from Washington; 3) federal bureaucrats who expect to see more power and influence in an enlarged administrative state; 4) low information voters; and 5) recipients of means-tested entitlements.
There will be no landslide.
“However, we control our political system and we can change it. “
Let me set you straight on that. It is a fond and popular myth that we control our political system. We do not and have not for decades. The political establishment and the wealthy control it, and we can no more change it than we can change the orbit of the moon. If we could change it Bernie Sanders would be the nominee.
That’s one thing that went right. The only bright spot of the entire primary season although there was little to choose between the two Comrades.
The primary and caucus systems in both parties needs to be changed but it has to be done on a state to state basis. Therefore, it will be difficult to accomplish.
We’ll try to keep hope alive… It’s amazing this election is more about who is the first to the bottom than what the issues are. I agree with Jim22, the houses have to come down in order to build a new one.
Why would the banks allow the house to come down?
Vote Jill Stein.
Like I said, trying to keep hope alive… speaking of banks, the hedge is reporting that Russia Today’s bank accounts have been blocked in the UK…. Hope is slim at this point.
slohrss29,
You should read the Guardian about this. What a joke. They are in full agreement with blocking the accounts because RT puts out propaganda. So may we expect the banks to be blocking CNN and their own accounts soon?
Meanwhile here’s our fine govt. engaged in more good works–uparmoring against peaceful protesters:
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/17/militarized_police_from_multiple_states_deployed
Whoever gets elected, we need to take our cues from these protesters.
Jill, The Guardian is a tool of the corporate elite. Ever since they had to smash the harddrives with the original Wikileaks on them and Greenwald left it has slipped further int the neo con/lib muck. Still, I find it a better read overall than the NY Times or Wash Post.
reguritas vomitas for sure.
Primaries under federal rulings are the province of each party. However each party wishes to run it’s primary is all that matters. General Elections are under control of the federal system. Congressionals are now not delegates from each State but part of the national bureaucracy. If you can’t use recall then it’s not State or local level function. Another present from the progressives.
I guess I see it a little differently than most. I’m enjoying the system only if Trump wins. I’m not a huge fan of him other than he is what we have all been asking for, for years. Someone outside of the political system who says what is on his mind. Would I really like the “system” more had the Reps put up another mannequin like Romney? Mo, because of him, I voted for Johnson last election. The jerks of over the past few decades are what got us here, why would we want more of the same?
The lying sack O’ you know what, will win, I predicted it four years ago. Just listen to what the stupid Hollywood elite women are saying. It is so hypocritical it hurts. Hillary is your empowered female? Really?
The “system” needs a Trump to win to show that, yes, lifetime politicians are not the only choice and to hopefully blow the “system” up.
I like your attitude and your comments! It’s supposed to be a self government system with ‘hired hand employees called government and the Congressionals are supposed to be delegates FROM the States working for the States. Having them selected by popular votes in the case of the Senate effectively killed the checks and balances system, made the Senators nothing more than Representatives At Large and was a huge mistake along with the follow up called income tax a fascist system of control. If you can’t change that then it will continue to be an Imperial Bureaucracy of people who have zero loyalty to the Constitutional Republic and 100% loyalty to a socialist autocracy. complete with another version of Obama. The rest of us will be nothing more than the serf class.. That’s what the Republicans and Democrats as two faces of the Government Party single party system gets you.
Good post Michael. The statists on this blog will continue to support the supposed “ends” of the progressive regime with little to no consideration for the consequences of the “means” to achieve them. The ends by themselves are more or less causes for which compassionate people could embrace, but we are a nation divided on the means. The Left attacks the Right, the Right attacks the Left and the rule of law is shredded in the process.
It has become absolutely reasonable to fear “losing” elections; not necessarily because our government will seek policy we don’t support, but because the government is no longer constrained by constitutional means. Being on the losing end of elections now places a target on the backs of those in opposition; the losers become enemies of the state and our government has proven itself willing to use ALL the weapons our ignorant and compliant citizenry have provided.
Olly, Progressives and Liberals are very different. Liberals support HRC, PCisms, and are generally amoral when it comes to Democrat shenanigans.
Not all true….. Probably progressives are the strongest supporters of what you deferentially call PC. Try sitting in meetings with far left grassroots progressives and you will quickly find out what I am talking about.
Autumn,
Progressives can be liberal or conservative. What they are not are constitutionalists. They are at best utilitarians that have created our modern bureaucratic state. If you are trying to redefine what it means to be a progressive then will you support unwinding the bureaucracies created by the progressive regimes over the last 100 years?
What makes you think progress? Regressive would be a far better choice. Failures would be better.
Tear it down? That would be a plus. Yes and put all of your fourth branch of government in the breadlines AFTER the veterans and after the decent citizens. To me government is just a collection of temporary employees of the citizens of the country. Long over due for firing. That alone would balance the budget.
Just think if all those in the executive branch that were dealing with legislation and judicial matters were fired on the spot There’s fifty billion or a year to start repairing the damage.
You aren’t needed, aren’t wanted and do nothing positive that five high school kids and a computer couldn’t accomplish.
Sorry? I don’t serve the party Comrade. My oath was to the Constitution and a Constitutional Republic. Remove that and where is your protection. Every two bit tin horn dictator knows they have to pay their security forces first and you can’t even do that.
Trump blew himself up.
Please explain how he did that?
Funny, he’s still turning out thousands of people at his rallies. And more people voted for him during the primaries than any other Republican candidate including Reagan! 0 enthusiasm for HRC.
I am hoping there will be some grassroots changes in both parties after this election. The Democrats are clearly corrupt, given the emails back and forth between Podesta and the DNC. Brazille giving Hillary one or more of the questions is over the top. The big problem is that the papers are really only covering Trump.
Wasn’t so long ago Brazille was calling Hillary a sexist racist. Mixed messages? ha ha ha or the unintended truth?.
Paul, aside for the old, craven rank ‘n file there are actually a few bright stars – running as Demoncrats, but actually Progressives:
Tulsi Gabbard (despite the attempts by the DNC to defeat her she easily won back her seat in HI), Misty Plowright (running in CO), Bao Nguyen (CA) and Misty Snow (UT)
It is interesting that the Republicans have more young people than the Dems.
My hope is that people will shove off the partisan nonsense and elect candidates on their respective merits. That would blow up the damned duopoly. Also get rid of closed primaries.
Clinton envy will get you nowhere accept where you in fact desire to be. You and your ilk are seething because Clinton is a bigger liar than any of you ever could have dreamed to become by taking your own money game to new heights. What’s a Republican not to like about her other than the few social issues she pretends to support like a bottled-elixer salesman wandering into town on his buckboard wagon?
Steve,
” What’s a Republican not to like about her other than the few social issues she pretends to support”
A good share of Republicans (besides the elite corporatists) despise her dishonesty. Most support Trump because he is not a politician and has not demeaned an office as she has. At least that’s what I hear around here. His foul mouth is less infuriating than her dishonesty. If he proves himself corruptible, it would not surprise me that many would then demand his impeachment. People have HAD IT with manipulative, dishonest, elitist politicians.
You don’t have to be a Republican to support an anti Hillary vote decision. You just have to be an anti left wing socialist fascist. Republicans (in name only) after all are nothing but the right wing of the left. Government Party is Government party is a single party system by any other name.
It helps to be a supporter of a Constitutional Republic but it isn’t required.
Prairie Rose: I agree with most of what you say, frankly. She’s despicable, and I hope Trump wins if it’s got to be one of the two.
I also think there’s a better chance than ever that he would be the first president convicted in the Senate.
But to say that Republicans despise her dishonesty is hypocrisy, when that party has been two-faced for as long as I’ve been alive. Political banter is one thing in modern politics, but like Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin incident, Ford pardoning Nixon, and Reagan’s “I don’t recall” during the Iran-Contra hearings, Republicans calling Clinton a liar doesn’t bode well for their cause, especially with their alternative stable of candidates this year and the eventual Republican nominee.
Trump just hasn’t been outed yet.
Like I say, Clinton has taken that position – under the wings of Citizens United – to new heights that Republicans can only dream of.
Those two parties stink, and in my opinion it’s because of capitalism per se, and when something stinks that bad we should burn it, not try to deodorize it.
Steve,
“Republicans despise her dishonesty is hypocrisy, when that party has been two-faced for as long as I’ve been alive”
I am not talking about The Party. I am talking about folks I know who vote Republican, may even be registered as such but pay little attention to the machinations of politics, and have now awakened to the hypocrisy, dishonesty, and manipulation. I am talking about regular people who paid attention to the petty social controversies that the Uber-party uses to keep people divided and distracted. They are figuring out how much the insiders have lied (Trump is not an insider) and despise Hillary’s lying and that the rules do not apply to her. They want people to be equal under the law. My sample size is small, but that is what I hear.
“it’s because of capitalism per se”
We do not have capitalism. We have corporatism.
Capitalism would have allowed the mega banks and Chevy to fail like any other business.
Exactly. We have not had capitalism for decades. Call it what you want, corporatism, crony capitalism. It amounts to using political power to rig the game.
Attempting to distinguishing capitalism from corporatism is a bit like distinguishing a Gala apple from a Honeycrisp. Adam would bite on either, even when they’re both rotten to the core.
Both also rely on resources and therefore growth and new market access. And therefore since time immemorial there has been empire to produce capital. And they all end up killing and then receding when they can no longer maintain their expansion.
Both rely on human competition, which with the first loser of the competition falling destitute then turns into a self-sacrificing battle for survival with all the concomitant pathological behavior.
Both use propaganda and control of the press, knowing full well that for the vast majority the road map to financial success is as illusive as the mega lotto. As a tool to restrain the masses, they’re told to believe in the economic theory of free-market capitalism and no other, and if only government wasn’t involved!
Some choose honor as the sole source of any real value and join the armed forces, gaining their value through absolute obedience no matter the ethics, medals, and whatever the wealthy decide as the going rate to pay them. All of them end up laboring a lifetime as slaves for their masters and blaming the contrarians for their problems. If only the government wasn’t involved!
You go ahead and believe what you want, but capitalism – whether or not it funds corporations too big to fail or not – will always be controlled by those with the resources and the men of valor crusading for them.
You speak of Trump as outside the Establishment? As one commentator here (whose name I cannot recall) observed a while back, “Trump is the grease on the Establishment wheel!”
In short, if we outlawed the corporate fiction, it’d be a start, but it would not rid us of the problem of capitalism.
“The method of ‘postulating’ what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.” – Bertrand Russell
Trump is a.crony capitalist and a corporatist which are pretty much the same thing.The same can be said for the Clintons.
Bill Carroll: so-called ‘free-market’ capitalism requires cronies. You scratch my back; I’ll scratch yours. Wink-wink. You don’t like the good ol’ boy network?
Rubbish.
Thanks for your thoughtfull analysis Steve.
Yeah, a thrift shop markdown precis of an article he read in Monthly Review is a real public service.
As compared to regurgitating left wing propaganda with all the feelings of a machine part? Click click interchangeable parts. Back in your box until needed in two years. Ho Hum. The Review does take a person of some literacy. Not to worry when your chip doesn’t offer that app.
I am satisfied with the Democrat side of the fence. But not Trumpster or Pense. Hillary is quite qualified. She has a good sidekick. We need at least four years out of those two.
Hillary is qualified only for federal prison. As for Kaine, once upon a time, he might have been a serious person.
Seig me No Heils Comrade many of us do Not serve the party, don’t click our heels and see zero difference between the any part of the left wing including the Republicans in Name Only. But they all have one thing in common. They are fascist small ‘f’ in nature meaning do anything possible or necessary to control everything. There is no fence. Just a badly done charade or street theater hosted by a sociaist autocracy.
Yep, she’s qualified all right in warmongering and pleasing her corporate owners. Kaine is pro TTP and pro fracking. Both are dangerous to the citizens of the US of A.
I am surprised it is as high as 1/4 of the population. I would expect the majority of that 28% to be beneficiaries of government largess. Users of food stamps or government jobs.
Salaried employees who work in education and social service bureaucracies I would expect are reliably left. Police and military reliably right. The remainder I would guess would track private sector employees who resemble them according to certain demographic variables and elements of personal history.
By far the largest programs are Social Security and Medicare. The elderly are not a reliable Democratic constituency and were with scant doubt more inclined toward the Democratic Party in Walter Mondale’s era (the change being due to cohort effects, among other things). As for those making use of unemployment compensation, a history of a long spell of unemployment is corellated with resistance to voting Republican. As for SNAP cards, Medicaid, Section 8, and SSI, the demographics of the clientele are such that you’d expect a great many of them to be Democratic voters without regard to their beneficiary status. Blacks vote Democratic by margins of 10-to-1 all up and down the social scale. I’m not sure anyone has discovered a subpopulation among blacks who prefer the Republicans. The situation with Puerto Ricans and California Chicanos is not quite so intense, but it’s in that zone.
You haven’t looked very hard. It’s accessible with a little googling. The division in two categories goes like this. Young Jews vote Democratic and are not pro Israel. The older more established members of that culture tend to vote Republican and are pro Israel.
Those of proto-African descent divide between established and church going also mostly older supporting Republicans and younger especially those that are career welfare either giving or getting Democrats. Another category is government employees which is actually a separate category. There civilians vote Democrat where military in large numbers vote Republican IF they are combat arms people.
Reason? Democrats have a far higher kill ratio of US combat and combat support troops in wars they lose while Republicans have a far lower kill ratio in wars they win. Since the end of WWII it’s about 18 deaths under a Democrat War such as Korea, Vietnam and the current. Go back to WWI and WWII it’s astronomical to zilch. Soldiers pay attention to those sorts of statistics regardless of race. Our newest members of the combat arms group have yet to learn that lesson.
A lot of the reasons why these days are economic in nature. Students by definition are still in a learning mode and easily nose ringed by the education system. Most schools do not teach independent thinking, reasoning and allow open discussion. Ergo Sum they graduate without the ability to act as an adult which means assume responsibilities of citizenship. But they do make fine cannon fodder and baby factories.
What you thought those student loans were free? To start with only to the women. The men have to change their status from draft eligible to volunteer awaiting call up orders. You roll a set of loaded dice you deserve to lose.
The draft was put into effect and kept on the books and in operation by the way by the left wing by the way.
The older more established members of that culture tend to vote Republican and are pro Israel.
Nope. Self-identified Jews vote Democratic by margins of 4-to-1, to the extent that this can be reliably discerned by survey research. The Jewish electorate is more inclined toward the Democratic Party than it was 40 years ago.
Those of proto-African descent divide between established and church going also mostly older supporting Republicans and younger especially those that are career welfare either giving or getting Democrats.
No, there is no identifiable subpopulation among blacks who favor Republicans. Your best bet if you want to locate such a subpopulation would be to interview military families or West Indians or blacks living is small towns and rural homesteads outside the South.
You need to sober up. You’re really incoherent.
ghs,
They are the benefactors of USG largess. They are defense contractors, the banking industry and the oil and gas companies for starters. These are the govt.’s largest benefactors and they love Clinton. They will get everything they want from her.
Food stamps will be cut. She’s a supporter of austerity. That’s what her banking friends want and believe me, she’ll deliver 100 percent.
I see the propagandists have you by the nose ring. What makes you think they aren’t the same? As I recall the definition of the socialist s since the 30’s is one third statists, one third corporatists, and one third labor leaders. All one single party system of government.
Clinton is a big spending liberal.
The Republican caucus in Congress is a fine example of learned helplessness, the appellate judiciary and the public interest bar are shot through with intellectual and moral frauds, the Democratic Party is a criminal organization, and higher education’s a bloated scam. What’s to like?
the opposition to Trump is now so great that the Democrats could win the Senate and the Supreme Court as well as the White House by simple default.
Not likely. The current projection by Rothenberg is for the Democrats to gain about 7 or 8 seats in the House and about 3 or 4 in the Senate. These projections have changed little in recent months. The vulnerability of the Senate isn’t driven by voter alienation from Trump. The Republicans had a wretched calendar this year. They made large gains in 2010 and that left them with more to defend and some marginal incumbents who would not have won in a year less favorable than 2010. There are seven fairly vulnerable Republican senate seats, of which 3 are occupied by irritants who would have been knocked out in primaries had local Republicans been on the stick.
Looks like people are planning on ticket splitting at this point and the democrats will more than likely be held to 50 to 51seats in the Senate and approximately 8 seats in the House. That is not to say that that there is no possibility of a wave election should Trump’s level of support fall to 35 percent.
In your dreams. There will be no wave election and there’s not much indication the Democrats will do better than a 50-50 split in the senate.
Looks like they pick up WI IL IN PA NC which takes them to 51. That is without a wave.
Utah: Trump vs. Clinton vs. Johnson vs. Stein vs. McMullin Heat Street/Rasmussen Trump 30, Clinton 28, McMullin 29, Johnson 5, Stein 1 Fascinating poll where a third party candidate is making a huge difference.
Keep hoping sister, if it helps you feel better. The people who know their business say the Democrats are favored in Illinois and Wisconsin. Kirk in Illinois is a small loss. They have a fifty-fifty shot at four other seats (PA, NH, MO, and IN). They have a 50-50 shot of losing Nevada. If the Republicans have to lose 3 seats, they’d be best off seeing the back of Kirk, Ayotte, and Burr. Kirk’s a trimmer, Ayotte a lying opportunist, and Burr a poltroon.
Cortez Mastro has pulled out to a 7 point lead in Nevada. Maybe the wave is starting. 🙂
In your imagination only. There have been 3 recent polls reported on RCP. The median of the gap between them reported by these three polls is nil.
Seriously, hit your refresh button. “The senate race in Nevada tilts Democratic, 52% for Catherine Cortez Masto to 45% for Joe Heck, while in Ohio, Rob Portman continues to hold a wide lead over Ted Strickland, 56% to 40%.” CNN
Nate Silver @NateSilver538 1h1 hour ago
Democrats starting to gain a clearer advantage in the Senate, partly as a result of pulling ahead in Nevada. http://53eig.ht/2dFwS03
Is that the same Nate Silver who continually assured everyone Trump would “NEVER” be the GOP nominee?
Again, the RCP median is what it is. If that’s inconvenient for you, tough.