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TomCADem

(17,837 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:58 PM Nov 2020

'We're the ones who won': McCarthy guarantees 2022 House majority after GOP stymies Democrats

Source: MSN/Washington Post

Democrats have spent years wooing suburban voters, seeking to build a durable House majority on a foundation of affluent, well-educated voters repelled by President Trump and a hard-right GOP. But last week, that foundation developed serious cracks.

Republicans not only reversed Democratic midterm gains in rural districts that had voted strongly for Trump in 2016, but clawed back at least one seat in Southern California while leading in other suburban districts that are yet to be called.

Even more alarming for Democrats, predictions of broad gains in the suburbs of Texas, Indiana, Missouri and other states simply failed to materialize — casting doubt on the party’s long-term House strategy of offsetting the party’s dwindling appeal among less-educated White voters with greater support among the more educated.

President-elect Joe Biden’s victory aside, the underwhelming performance across the electoral map has already fueled an internal bloodletting in the Democratic ranks, with party leaders and strategists blaming wildly inaccurate polls for the undue expectations and expressing surprise at the massive GOP turnout.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-re-the-ones-who-won-mccarthy-guarantees-2022-house-majority-after-gop-stymies-democrats-in-suburbs/ar-BB1aXgZi?li=BB141NW3&ocid=uxbndlbingoff



GOP Minority Leader demonstrates that Trump is not an aberration as Kevin McCarthy telegraphs the GOP strategy of making racist appeals to white voters in the suburbs.
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'We're the ones who won': McCarthy guarantees 2022 House majority after GOP stymies Democrats (Original Post) TomCADem Nov 2020 OP
After 2 years of GOP stonewalling and refusal to do anything about COVID? Good luck, asshole. kysrsoze Nov 2020 #1
Didn't we hold cilla4progress Nov 2020 #2
That media narrative is so fucked up genxlib Nov 2020 #3
Yes, comparing Presidential years, Democrats GAINED seats in the House. Up from 2016. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2020 #10
We just have to start making up deep-state lies about repuglicans mdbl Nov 2020 #25
Time to Root Out Socialism modrepub Nov 2020 #4
Fifty State Strategy - Calling Dr Dean! GoneOffShore Nov 2020 #5
Yes Rebl2 Nov 2020 #7
This! nt List left Nov 2020 #9
I haven't heard anybody figuring in the way that the reTHUGS are thinning their own politcal abqtommy Nov 2020 #6
You are so right Rebl2 Nov 2020 #8
Gimme some Biden policy successes and a DOJ that puts some crooks on trial bucolic_frolic Nov 2020 #11
Sure.. you're gonna win 30+ seats. Keep saying that if it makes you feel better. Ain't happenin Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #12
After the way Trump bungled the virus response and destroyed the economy in the process? Good luck! Initech Nov 2020 #13
We will see. IsItJustMe Nov 2020 #14
Another "Dems in disarray" story. maxrandb Nov 2020 #15
THIS..THIS...⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆ pbmus Nov 2020 #16
Yikes. 2naSalit Nov 2020 #17
OFFS BumRushDaShow Nov 2020 #18
The next election will occur after redistricting. Just saying. n/t krispos42 Nov 2020 #19
True..midterms are always worrisome. But, the political landscape had a bulldozer rammed thru Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #22
Except, not actually or literally. Mc Mike Nov 2020 #20
And Don-John is the one who LOST! Oh...wait...Dems are still in the majority, right? Maeve Nov 2020 #21
2022 may not repeat 2010 any more than 2020 did 2016 bucolic_frolic Nov 2020 #23
So the man who ten days ago MurrayDelph Nov 2020 #24

kysrsoze

(6,445 posts)
1. After 2 years of GOP stonewalling and refusal to do anything about COVID? Good luck, asshole.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:10 PM
Nov 2020

Much of their electorate will be dead or long-term unemployed by then.

cilla4progress

(26,525 posts)
2. Didn't we hold
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:11 PM
Nov 2020

The House?

Dems are easy to pick on because we tend to be diverse and include BIPOC.

Rs are tapped in and hold onto the reins of power corruptly. MSM tends to defer to them.

genxlib

(6,135 posts)
3. That media narrative is so fucked up
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:16 PM
Nov 2020

Only liberals have to apologize for not winning by a large enough margin.

"Losing seats" in the house is another way of saying we won assholes. It is only a loss if you compare it to the larger win we had in 2018.

Having said that, I expect 2022 to be difficult for us as mid-terms always are. Voters are fickle and will expect us to solve all their problems despite starting with a raging pandemic, broken government, divided congress and no money. No honeymoons for the weary.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
10. Yes, comparing Presidential years, Democrats GAINED seats in the House. Up from 2016. . . . nt
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:23 PM
Nov 2020

mdbl

(8,650 posts)
25. We just have to start making up deep-state lies about repuglicans
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 09:41 PM
Nov 2020

and put them out on some crappy news and radio show like fux news and mush bimbo. All day, every day. that is how we win elections. Doesn't the DNC know that by now?

modrepub

(4,108 posts)
4. Time to Root Out Socialism
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:42 PM
Nov 2020

If socialism is broadly defined as getting stuff with other people's money then it's time to make Republican dominated states and counties practice their principles. Tax receipts mirror economic vitality. If I were to rank rural, suburban and urban areas based on their tax receipts, I'd place the largest to smallest contributors as suburban, urban and then rural. Democratic strength is in the urban and now suburban areas. You want to keep suburban areas in the Democratic fold? Just point out how much money flows out of their areas on the state and federal level. Then point out that local taxes have to be raised to make up that out flow to keep the services they want.

Gloves off folks, time to shake the cage to bring some reality to these folks.

Rebl2

(17,738 posts)
7. Yes
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:05 PM
Nov 2020

Haven’t heard from him in a long time. Down ballot races matter and it seems we can’t get past this. Rural areas are really tough to change. I know living in very red Missouri. I live in KCMO and some of our suburbs are still very red, while KC itself is more liberal/blue.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
6. I haven't heard anybody figuring in the way that the reTHUGS are thinning their own politcal
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:01 PM
Nov 2020

herd using covid-19. It's not a done deal yet by any means.

bucolic_frolic

(55,129 posts)
11. Gimme some Biden policy successes and a DOJ that puts some crooks on trial
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 03:11 PM
Nov 2020

and NYAG indictments.

That said, we caught them by surprise in 2018. And the GOP overperformed this year because Trump brought everybody and his mother from the GOP to the polls - those for Trump and those for Biden - and they all voted GOP down-ballot.

Thekaspervote

(35,820 posts)
12. Sure.. you're gonna win 30+ seats. Keep saying that if it makes you feel better. Ain't happenin
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 03:12 PM
Nov 2020

Initech

(108,772 posts)
13. After the way Trump bungled the virus response and destroyed the economy in the process? Good luck!
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 03:48 PM
Nov 2020

maxrandb

(17,425 posts)
15. Another "Dems in disarray" story.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 04:11 PM
Nov 2020

I'm sure the "expose" on the toothless, warm beer swilling, inbred "focus group" hayseeds from some Dumbfuckistan, Murika shithole was below the fold on the front page.

You can't tell the story of the 2020 House races without mentioning gerrymandering.

The Retrumplican dipshits drew state and congressional maps with surgical precision. This was a billionaire funded ratfucking effort that was designed to ENSURE RETRUMPLICAN MAJORITIES FOR A FUCKING GENERATION.

They fucking drew Wisconsin so that they could get 86% of the states representation with 48% of the states votes.

They did the fucking same in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina...

The Democrats got 10 Million more votes nationally in 2018. With fair maps, that would have resulted in a 60-70 seat gain. They barely gained 40.

Fuck! It's not the god damned policies or message. It's the fucking gerrymandering.

The maps were ALWAYS designed to protect and ensure Retrumplican majorities, NO MATTER WHAT THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS WANT.

THIS IS WHAT MINORITY RULE LOOKS LIKE

pbmus

(13,141 posts)
16. THIS..THIS...⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 04:19 PM
Nov 2020

BumRushDaShow

(169,733 posts)
18. OFFS
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 04:54 PM
Nov 2020

"Clawed back one seat".

How about the narrative about how the GOP um... not only pretty much lost "red" (in their minds) AZ, which now has 2 Democratic Senators, but is losing "deep red" GA.

Thekaspervote

(35,820 posts)
22. True..midterms are always worrisome. But, the political landscape had a bulldozer rammed thru
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:02 PM
Nov 2020

It. GA & AZ...who’d a think it just a year ago.

We need to keep our foot on the gas, no letting up. That’s how we win..Stacey Abrams style

bucolic_frolic

(55,129 posts)
23. 2022 may not repeat 2010 any more than 2020 did 2016
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:20 PM
Nov 2020

A lot can happen in 2 years. I'd be surprised if the new DOJ ignores money and politics the same way Barr's DOJ did.

MurrayDelph

(5,750 posts)
24. So the man who ten days ago
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 07:51 PM
Nov 2020

was bragging about seizing the Speaker's gavel from Nancy Pelosi is trying get us to believe he was the true winner because even though his team lost he beat the "point spread"?

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