It’s been several hours since the The Assclown-in-Chief made a fool of himself again with his Twitter finger, and in this ever-changing world in which we live in, it’s easy to take new polls with a grain of salt. From New York Magazine:
Blue America’s greatest fear about the Trump-era (after nuclear annihilation, anyway) is probably that the president and his party are going to get away with all of it: trying to make health care more expensive for much of their own base; letting banks fleece their customers and coal companies contaminate their neighbors’ water; the callous, inept response to Puerto Rico; coddling white supremacists; betraying core U.S. allies; running the EPA as a fossil-fuel-industry think tank; insulting war widows; selling their legislative agenda to the highest-bidding libertarian billionaire; elevating cruelty toward the vulnerable into a patriotic duty — and at the end of the day, they won’t face consequences for any of it.
But these two polls are pretty telling about the mood of more than half of the the general electorate right about now.
Last week a CNN poll found that Americans want Democrats to take over Congress next year by a 14-point margin. On Wednesday, a Fox News poll put the Democrats’ lead at 15.
Trump's popularity is decreasing not only among the general public, but among his core constituents: white males without college degrees and evangelical “Christians.” And there is no doubt that this has dragged the GOP right down with him. The CNN article detailing their poll contains a panoply of interesting tidbits:
The Cook report now rates 61 Republican-held seats as potentially competitive -- compared with 20 competitive Democratic seats.
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The Decision Desk HQ House model now gives Democrats a 46% chance of winning the majority, up from a less than one-in-three chance earlier this fall
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Democrats tend to have a three-to-five point edge on the generic ballot question. And yes it, is early. But such a wide margin in the generic ballot looks similar to October 2005 when Democrats had an eight-point edge; the party went on to pick up 30 seats and capture the majority from Republicans. It's also worth noting that Democrats' generic ballot edge in the CNN poll has never been below nine points since Trump became President.
In addition to permanently derailing any further legislative ambitions Trump may be harboring, taking over the House means impeachment, pure and simple:
If Republicans forfeit the House, Democrats will almost certainly create a spectacle that will derail conservatives' agenda and the remainder of Trump's first term -- a spectacle complete with a raft of new subpoenas, a spotlight on the Russia investigation and, many are convinced, impeachment proceedings.
Steve Bannon has declared war on any Republicans still possessing some bare shards of human decency, which promises to stir the cauldron through Election Day. And although there is no shortage of hand-wringing right now in Republican ranks because of this, the most important person in this drama doesn’t seem to get that it is what he’s done and who he is that has radicalized the Democratic base beyond anything in living memory:
Republican handwringing over losing control of the House has played out largely in public. But in the hushed conversations that follow, Republicans have wondered whether Trump fully grasps the misery Democrats could unleash on his presidency.
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"It will be on steroids, the amount of lawyers, investigations, inspector generals that come out of the woodwork" if Democrats win back the House, predicted Sara Fagen, who served as Bush's White House political director. "It will be very debilitating in a way they don't understand yet."
A takeover of the House would give Trump a reality show that he would never recover from:
GOP operatives are already envisioning Trump family members and acquaintances being dragged up to Capitol Hill over months to testify.
There are always a surplus of “Democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” stories to pass around. But it appears that Democrats are now finally realizing that we only need to do one thing, on one day, to send this so-called “President” into the living Hell where he belongs.
We need to vote. We need to go out and get others to vote. We need to drive people to vote. We need to walk people to vote. We need to cajole people to vote. We need to cover the polls on November 6, 2018. We need to canvass. We need to call, message and text. We need to shame those who won’t vote.
If everyone burns the date of November 6, 2018, into their minds, tattoos it on their bodies, paints it on their car, sets an alarm on their phone, and works between now and then to register and urge people to vote, then we will win.
That’s what we need to do.
We get one shot. And we can’t blow it.
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