So the majority of Americans, you know the people who voted for Obama, are butt hurt that a black was elected into office twice.
Not what I said. Read it again. Or not.
That you rush to post and try to score points without understanding what you read is hilarious to me
No you said lots of people were upset because a black man won. But the majority of Americans voted for him. Do you think they didn’t realize he was black till after the end of his second term.Not what I said. Read it again. Or not.
That you rush to post and try to score points without understanding what you read is hilarious to me
Trump’s overall job approval isn’t bad, within a couple of points of being even. Having as many approve as disapprove. But the polls are about a week behind the events happening today or yesterday.
Absolutely. They know they can't win unless they appease the far left and the far left is why they are losing. It's a lose lose situation. And, the far left know this and are trying to hijack the democrat party.
Being leaderless is probably the democrat’s main problem when it comes to combating Trump. If one remembers back after Trump won in 2016, Pelosi picked up the reins of leadership and led the democrats to a 42-seat gain and control of the house in the 2018 midterms. It seems the democrats have no one with the leadership skills or no one willing to take up that mantel, the reigns of leadership to lead the party against Trump. Trump seems to have the democrats flummoxed. The democrats have no idea of what to do next.
I read "strong leaders" on the republican side for what they have proven to be, criminals and toady sychophants. Their criminality and anti-Constitutionality is historically bad.
This certainly explains why AOC and Bernie are being so bold and vocal and any of the more moderate Dems are being shy and quiet.
You're comparing the outcome during when the dems held the house vs now when they don't hold the house? Why would you do that?
Now do moderate republicans.
I completely agree. No one (besides AOC) seems to be willing to get out there and give it a solid effort.
That you think the majority of voters, the same people who elected Obama, have all of a sudden decided that they don’t want to elect anyone other then a straight white middle aged male is simply stupid.
They are between a rock and a hard place.
Amazingly, the rise of independents and disapproval of both parties has led to more votes for the two parties. Everybody seems to realize the two parties are the only real games in town and are chosing their respective corners, picking one side or the other while at the same time leaving both parties. You'd think that this would be a good time for some kind of third party to get a foothold but it isn't happening.
Wrong, after the 2016 elections the republicans held the house 241-194 over the democrats. Today it is a much slimmer GOP advantage 220-215.
I might add that you don't really have total control unless you have 60 in the Senate. So far, it doesn't look like democrats are going to score big in the 2026 midterms. If they do retake the House, it may be a squeaker. But, right now, it's not even a guarantee dems will retake the House. I really don't like the way the House works, where the majority party can do whatever the hell they want with a vote of 218-217.
Perhaps Trump has the democrats scared of him. None of the democrats want to feel his wrath as whoever stepped up would certainly feel.
Personally, I don't think a generic Congressional poll means that much unless there is a huge sway. All that really matters is the individual races in the swing discrticts. So far, to me, it doesn't look like dems are going to have a wave of any kind. The fact that the current split is razor thin is the only advantage they have.
If there’s one thing both major parties agree on, it’s no viable third party will ever rise. Republicans and democrats write out election laws and they do it as a mutual protection act. What we have today is a lot of voters not voting for someone or party, but voting for the lesser of two evils, the least worse candidate or party or the candidate or party one wants to lose the least. Although they want both to lose. What also has happened with the shrinking of both major parties is more and more moderates leave, it leaves both major parties with more and more ideologues which moves each major party further and further left and right.
Democrats need to stand for something other than just opposing Trump and voters rejected what they stood for in 2024. They veered so far left that many found Trump appealing. In other words, just having a leader to oppose Trump isn't going to work when it comes to the win column. They need a leader who stands for something different than what democrats stood for in 2024.
The problem is democrats need to have a leader who stands up for something other than just opposing Trump.
Things change over time. It wasn’t until September of 2021 when Biden dropped from the positive approval down into the negative while the democrats lost the initiative when it came to the house elections. Today, there’s about 40 competitive house seats or at risk of switching seats. The democrats have 22 of them vs. 18 for the GOP. The senate as of today, the republicans have two seats in the tossup column, Maine and North Carolina, the democrats have three, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire. Some would add Minnesota to the democratic list since it’s an open seat. Minnesota has slowly been trending red.
Both parties have either thrown moderates overboard or forced them to walk the plank and jump of their own accord. It's getting to be that no sane person would want to be in politics, only leaving the insane running for offices. Over the last several years there has been a fever pitch of both parties wanting to primary their own incumbants for not toeing the party line.