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RandySF's JournalIowa Poll: Iowans favor Democrats for Congress in 2018
NOTE: Iowa's Congressional districts are drawn by a commission and not as badly gerrymandered as in other states.Iowans favor electing Democrats to Congress over Republicans, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
Forty percent of Iowa Poll respondents say they would vote for a Democrat if congressional elections were held today, compared to 34 percent who say they would back a Republican.
The finding is notable because Republicans hold three of Iowa’s four congressional seats, including two seen as among the most competitive in the country in 2018.
The results of a so-called “generic ballot” question provide insight into how Iowans’ views have shifted after voting heavily in favor of Republican Donald Trump in 2016, said Nathan Gonzales, an elections forecaster and publisher of the nonpartisan Inside Elections newsletter.
“It sounds like voters are more skeptical about Republicans going into the 2018 elections,” he said.
Democrats are favored among women, all age groups, those earning under $70,000 and people living in cities and towns. A narrow plurality of 31 percent of independents say they would back a Democrat, compared with 28 percent who say they’d vote Republican.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/12/14/iowa-poll-iowans-favor-democrats-congress-2018/945913001/
Dent May Leave Office Early
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), “who has already said he will not seek re-election next year, confirmed he has had conversations with TV news executives about becoming an analyst, raising the possibility that he would leave his seat early and create yet another special election for his party,” the New York Times reports.
Said Dent: “I have no definitive plans.”
https://politicalwire.com/2017/12/13/dent-may-leave-office-early/
Omarosa set off White House Resdence alarms after being terminated
https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/941104064879910912AL-SEN: "Lousy" DNC spent $1 million on African American and Millennial Turnout
https://twitter.com/WaPoSean/status/940948105205346304AL-SEN: Let's stop peddling stories about African American interest until people vote
NOTE: There were stories from both Virginia and Alabama about the Democrat doing nothing to reach out to African American voters. Both were untrue.Democrats struggled for years, under President Barack Obama, to turn out African-American voters in off-year elections. For Mr. Jones, robust black turnout was essential to victory. He poured resources into African-American outreach and even summoned political leaders from out of state, including Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor, to help in the race’s final days.
Black voters turned out in force, handing Mr. Jones a decisive lead in Alabama’s cities and predominantly black rural counties. In Jefferson County, home to Birmingham and its whiter suburbs, turnout exceeded the 2014 governor’s race by about 30 percent, and Mr. Jones nearly matched Hillary Clinton’s vote total there. Other populous, heavily African-American counties, including Montgomery and Dallas County, where Selma is, also exceeded their 2014 turnout.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/doug-jones-democrats-alabama.html?_r=0
I suppose it's too much for Trump to regret these words?
White House on Lockdown After Television Is Hurled Out Window
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The White House was on lockdown Thursday morning after a television was hurled out of a window, the Secret Service reported.
The incident, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m. E.S.T., caught the attention of the Secret Service after agents heard the sound of smashing glass emanating from the Oval Office.
“The sound was consistent with that of a large object, such as a television set, being thrown through a closed window,” a Secret Service spokesman said.
The television, which crashed to the ground outside the Oval Office, injured no one, the Secret Service confirmed.
A group of fourth-grade students from Bethesda, Maryland, was on a White House tour when the incident involving the television occurred.
“I heard someone screaming lots of swear words and then, like, this big crash,” Zach Dorrinson, a student on the tour, said. “It was messed up.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/white-house-on-lockdown-after-television-is-hurled-out-window
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