Maybe it all matters, all over the country

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The plethora of predictive models for November’s midterm elections are manna for political junkies — and especially for nervous Democrats, who are not unreasonably worried that their party will find some way to blow a winnable election (see 2016). Well, if you put faith in the prognostications, Democrats would have to try to fail in order to blow their chance for majority control of the House of Representatives.

The Post summarizes the ratings put out by Cook Political Report, Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball and FiveThirtyEight: “More than 300 of the 435 seats are seen as safe by all three rating systems. . . . Another 83 seats are seen as in play to some extent by all three, though the degree to which they’re at risk — that is, whether they’re toss-ups or leaning or likely — may differ. Another 48 seats are seen as in play by at least one system but not both of the others.”

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The lazy punditry that says Trump has paid no price for his lies, assaults on democracy, policy debacles, cruelty and racism ignores the damage the president has done to himself and his party. He stands now on the brink of perhaps historic losses specifically because of his lies, assaults on democracy, policy debacles, etc.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/19/maybe-it-all-matters-all-over-the-country/?utm_term=.e53b6bc56a9c

[dweller]

1. can this be true?

after all, as of today, I'm being told "truth is not truth"

I'm not writing this, you're not reading it...

[irresistable]

2. Republicans are too busy trying to push women and children aside to consider pushing Trump aside.

We have finally reached the tipping point. You can feel it in every new development. You can feel it in every word and tweet from Trump and in every creepy, desperate grin from Giuliani. You can see it in today's face-palm from Chuck Todd. Information is flowing through our country now by the process of osmosis. This wave just might turn into a Tsunami.