Surprising. As midterms come, Republicans come back home and become aware of the elections.
The generic polls across the board have been collapsing for the last month now from an almost double digit lead to a margin of error lead on RCP.
That said, these polls still remain worthless. The biggest thing to look at is individual races.
While not many polls are out so far, what we have seen out so far have looked relatively promising for Republicans in newer polls, in Senate races.
There is a lot of wondering if the democrats have shifted too far left with progressives knocking off more moderate democrats in a bunch of primaries so far and whether those further left candidates can get independent voters to be able to win elections.
It's not a question of them shifting too far left on a one-dimensional axis. They don't have a coherent message, that's their problem. They spend 90% of their time responding to new scandals and controversies Trump brings up weekly, and still don't have a platform that people can support.
The problem is that they are shifting towards Bernie from where Hillary was. The question is, do they lose the middle American in doing so which is a bigger chunk than the far left that Bernie was able to bring in?
It wasn't too long ago people in this topic were literally high fiving blue waves and talking about winning Texas senator seats and 50+ house seats and so on.
The only real one with sense was Suprak who warned the Senate was very unlikely and the house is questionable at best also.
Even as their polls dwindled and as I said they don't matter, they kept moving their goalposts. Well, this um historical trend of fucking generic ballots says it should tighten then re-enlarge. Then to typical, well, that didn't to go the way we thought so time to ignore them all together which they should have been from the start.
When is the last time democrats got ahead of themselves and started looking for massive flips...
Hillary 2016. Flipping Texas, Georgia, South Carolina. Etc.
CBSnews has democrats split even on what they want their ideology to even be. Republicans are less undecided.
I don't think Bernie is farther left than Hillary on social issues. If you look at elections going back to Reagan, it becomes quite apparent that the real swing voters are the "Reagan Democrats," who are generally socially conservative and economically liberal. But Hillary's Democratic Party prioritizes social issues over economic ones, and that's a problem for them electorally. ---
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