'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 partys long-term House strategy of offsetting the partys dwindling appeal among less-educated White voters with greater support among the more educated.
President-elect Joe Bidens 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.
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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.
kysrsoze
(6,010 posts)Much of their electorate will be dead or long-term unemployed by then.
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)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
(5,507 posts)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
(48,789 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)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
(3,469 posts)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.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)Havent heard from him in a long time. Down ballot races matter and it seems we cant 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.
List left
(594 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)herd using covid-19. It's not a done deal yet by any means.
Rebl2
(13,311 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)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
(32,606 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)One day at a time.
maxrandb
(15,192 posts)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
(12,418 posts)2naSalit
(86,061 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,315 posts)"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.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)It. GA & AZ...whod a think it just a year ago.
We need to keep our foot on the gas, no letting up. Thats how we win..Stacey Abrams style
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)The repug 'speaker' has difficulty speaking clearly.
Maeve
(42,224 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)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
(5,281 posts)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"?