The good news is that the low info voters are dying off. Also, low info voters are low energy voters.
Dems — especially women Dems — are energized. We would crawl over broken glass to vote these fuckers out.
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They’re the same 38% that think Obama totally blew handling the immediate aftermath of Katrina.
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From today’s failing NYTimes
In 2016, net worth among white middle-income families was 19 percent below 2007 levels, adjusted for inflation. But among blacks, it was down 40 percent, and Hispanics saw a drop of 46 percent. For many, old-fashioned hard work has simply not been a viable path out of this hole.
What better proof do we need to see that Trump only cares about the 1%. If we had the best economy EVER why would net worth be down among the groups listed.
Today’s GOP thinks that your boot-straps are attached to your trust fund, and if you don’t have one… TOO BAD
IMO this should be a TOP for Trump’s ratings… but with the GOP as it is who knows
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The key to these polls is the Democrats’ share of the white vote. Both Q and Marist have Dems in the mid-40s.
Q turned out to be the most accurate for the VA GOV (and NJ GOV) race, and their poll today is quite similar to a poll they had nearly a year ago when Northam led Gillespie by 12 points. Dems are getting 45% of the white vote (similar to VA-GOV where I think they finished between 43-45) and are getting a dominant share of the minority vote. Even more ominous for the GOP is that Q has the Democrats advantage among Latinos at around 40 points.
Why are Dems doing so much better among white voters when they had their worst performance ever in that demographic in 2016? Answer: suburban white voters. This election is being driven by suburbanites which is why the Republicans will lose more districts than models currently predict. What it means is that Dems’ vote is not caged or clustered, but is much more strategically spread out across all district at a very high share making them competitive almost anywhere.
Q sees an election quite similar to the NJ and VA Gov races. Marist is similar although they are hedging a bit on the indie vote with more undecided (but actually have Dems leading among white voters by a few points!). I will say if election night looks like this Q poll, the country will be in good shape and will take that next big step to realize its potential which Obama outlined throughout his 2 campaigns for the Presidency and HRC outlined in 2016. The electoral coalition identified in this poll is one that can govern this country for a generation and transform it into a true Democracy.
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Of course the elephant in the room is that in a majority of districts the vote count is controlled by the GOP on unverifiable voting machines controlled by private corporations…
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Indeed. Some folks are benefiting greatly from GOP legislation so those are in full-throated support. Add those who believe that abortion is murder. Add in the white nationalists. Add the group who believe women are always ruled by men and are not capable of ruling. Sadly, add those of low income who believe that improving business will improve their lot. Then there are those who believe huffing and puffing strong language means strength. Add in “anything goes in business” believers who don’t see the Trumps lack of ethics as a weakness but a strength.
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Trump’s support is tanking?
I have to say this, it is hard to imagine two things about Trump supporters who are just now jumping off that ship of rats.
First, why did it take them so long… who are they and what kept them so stubbornly supportive of Trump’s insanity in the first place, and second, how on Earth can there still be sane people supporting him?
I don’t mean to be mean, but I’ve seen the way the Trump lovers act before, particularly the ones still remaining after the avalanche of damning information that came out recently in the anonymous editorial and Woodward’s book.
This reminds me of watching mesmerized cult members in the early 70’s fawn over money-hungry gurus and fad religions, it is all like something out of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
When their “idol’s” nakedness is exposed by irrefutable evidence, they instinctively throw up this wall of automatic self-determination, based on sheer falsehood, that rises in them whenever reality challenges their hypnotized loyalties.
It starts as a stubborn, defensive hostility, followed by a blank stare then a receding into clouded introspection as they cobble together a clumsy mental defense based on cliches they have turned into their crude 'truth." They got those cliches from FOX News and right wing media, Alex Jones and Sean Hannity, and from each other in an echo chamber of self-inflicted culthood.
The Cult of Trump is giving us all a window into the pernicious way brainwashing works on people around us. It is fascinating, but heartbreaking for some of us who have seen our loved-ones descend into this perpetual falsehood.
Some of them will never get over it, they will carry that mesmerized stare and hostile hatred for anyone who knew better to their graves. But hopefully, many more of them will awaken to the stark reality that now overwhelms anyone with a clear mind.
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The trump supporters I know are consumers of Faux News that ignore any other news sources that conflict with the lies being pushed by Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda machine. And the vast majority are 70+
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Some people out there would approve of necrotizing fasciitis.
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In other words, he’s disabled.
Geeze! You make it sound like people are generically dissatisfied with Republicans, altogether!
I think you’re right.
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I believe that you misspelled LARDED.
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The three most consistent issues in all districts are: Health Care, Fuck the Tax Cut and Trump. The fourth or fifth issue is usually regional focused (tariffs, teacher pay, immigration, environment, guns, etc.).
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I think there’s also a subset of voters who aren’t even interested in sticking it to minorities, or blowing up trade deals, nor do they care about tax cuts. These are people who aggressively avoid politics or really any discussion of things that make them ever so slightly uncomfortable. Unless something really big happens, it doesn’t really pierce their cone of obliviousness. When they feel like the economy is going well and that things are going well in general they give the president high marks. It takes a lot for these voters to feel like things are going wrong when the economy is good.
Something has pierced that nearly impenetrable bubble lately. I’m not sure if it’s that it’s after Labor Day in an election year and folks are just now starting to pay a little attention, or if it’s that the combination of the Omarosa and Woodward books along with the anonymous OpEd, the Manafort conviction and other plea deals, and utter exhaustion with his daily antics, are all starting to take a collective toll. Something appears to have changed, and it’s moving soft support for PP into the disapproval range and those who previously just disapproved are moving to strongly disapprove.
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T rumpp fulfills their need to hate Hillary. That hatred is much larger and stronger than their recognition that T rumpp is a sack of shit. That hatred will never die.
There aren’t. Congressional Republicans have circled the wagons in an effort to retain their power. They have no real love for the Dotard, but they lust for power and will continue to support their President 'till the end because admitting their mistakes would be the equivalent of ceding power to the Democrats. They hate that thought much more, again because of their hatred for all-things-Democrat.
Hate is their primary and strongest motivation. Period.
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46% of those who showed up to vote in 2016 is the highest his approval rating ever got.
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Too bad the Democrats have not learned how to win on something other than backlash against Republicans.
Speaking of backlash against Republicans, I see George W. Bush is now out campaigning for Republicans. If the Democrats had any sort of messaging savvy, George W. Bush, the unelected President responsible for the War in Iraq, 9/11, and the great recession, would be ashamed to show his face in public.
But the “we go high when they go low” Democrats let GWB and the Republican party rehabilitate themselves.
Hopefully the next Democratic President, if there is one, won’t make that mistake again.
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Ouch, this will leave the biggest mark of all on that bloated orange skin…
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I believe that was just announced yesterday. There is time to tether that albatross to GOPs.
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It is becoming much more personally humiliating for people to admit they support the Dotard. He has become unfashionable. The people you mentioned are more concerned with being current with the latest trends than they are with recognizing reality. Supporting T rumpp in no longer vogue.
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Pucker, McConnell. Look forward to the #RICO indictments.
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