Bleak Prospects for the GOP

You need to overcome your fixation upon bygone days. They fail as diversions. Hillary Clinton is not in any public office and is not seeking one.
Obama completed his two terms - to which he was popularly elected - with 58% approval. Neither serves as a distraction from our current plight.

As Trump National Security Advised H R McMaster noted in February,

“As you can see with FBI indictment, the evidence is incontrovertible and available in the public domain.
Whereas in the past it was difficult to attribute … now this is in the arena of law enforcement investigation,
it’s going to be very apparent to everyone.”
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Well, to almost everyone.

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Why would someone drop out of CalTech ???

Was he a liberal ?

 

Not everyone see the world or define them self for that matter in one dimensional terms and with special note of someone with a Phd in history who is also a history fiction writer.

 

Well one doesn't attend CalTech to earn a degree in the liberal arts.

 

Since when is a Phd in the late Rome empire era history a liberal arts degree?

Oh Caltech does have a history department.

Sorry as I do know you see the world by way of a very narrow two dimensional filter and trying to explain that the world in not two dimensional is like trying to explain the color blue to someone who was born blind.

 

Cal Tech history department is nothing like other college or university history departments.

Cal Tech doesn't instruct students in PC revisionist history but instruct students how to research history which can be used in the future as being a scientist or as a engineer.

It's a minor at Cal Tech.

 

Russia is always investigated as a foreign country by the CIA. The Feds investigate Americans. They are trampling the constitution to and due process.

 

Only 1 out of 10 red states have the best economies and it is NOT TX.

9 out of 10 red states have the worst economies.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-economies/21697/

 

I wish they would stay in california and suffer in their own excrement

 

You found a crazy liberal opinion site

In terms of gdp Texes is 2nd

And if trends continue it will pass california pretty soon

 

The unquestionable trend by which Texas is turning "blue" is a gradual one. Don't expect it to surpass California for a while.

Ted Cruz warns of blue Texas
as Democrats turn out for early vote​

 

Unbelievable, this whole discussion. Can you imagine a Texas with no guns?

If Texas goes under, what chance does the rest of America have?

 

No, but I can imagine paranoids weeing their frillies over the fantasy.

I know of no serious initiative to fuel their irrational fear.

 

I can't imagine Texas without guns. But I also can't imagine that occurring. Gun regulation is not about getting rid of guns, its about limiting their use. That is the fundamental distortion in the gun debate which makes it so useless (and frustrating).

 

That’s the way I feel about people who say what you did ..they should suffer in their own excrement

 

It’s because they are extremists Extremists can only think in extremes and nothing in between

 

ROFLMAO ahh no it didn't.
"But it's s the voting patterns in Texas that are the subject of today’s news. And they do suggest an enthusiasm gap, but not the one that has fascinated so much of the press corps.

In the primaries for governor and U.S. senator in Texas, Democrats had a range of candidates competing in open races, while Republicans were going through the formality of endorsing their incumbents, Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, who faced only modest opposition. Put simply, Democrats had more reason to show up and vote.

Yet for each of these two significant statewide offices, roughly 50% more Republicans than Democrats voted in their respective primaries. In each case, around 1.5 million Republicans voted, compared to about a million Democrats.

A Politico chart reports that while participation in Democratic primaries surged compared to several recent elections, fewer Democrats voted in this year’s primaries than in 1994. Meanwhile, on Tuesday GOP primary voting appears to have hit a new high—breaking the record set in the Tea Party year of 2010.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wave-jumpers-1520440830?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb

 

The reason so many Republicans are expressing dire concern regarding the first 2018 primary - in Texas of all places - is that there has been a dramatic upsurge in Democratic turn-out, consistent with the special elections that have been held earlier in the year. In Texas, all that could and can be reasonably hoped for is flipping three Congressional seats in November. Still, if Democrats are are as motivated nationally and Republicans as uninspired, Texas casts November as auspicious.

If you suggest that the 2018 Texas primaries fall short of those of 1994 in Democratic turn-out, 20 of Texas's 30 congressional seats were won by Democrats that year, but no one I know of has predicted a repeat of 1994.

As your Politico reports,

Lawmakers and leading operatives on both sides of the aisle have grown increasingly convinced that suburban districts will be 2018’s central battleground in the war for control of the House. And the matchups created by Tuesday’s primaries in two highly targeted races likely cement that expectation. Much of the party’s turnout gains were focused in metro and suburban zones like these.

Outside Dallas, Allred posted an unexpectedly large margin of victory in a crowded primary to set himself up as a clear favorite in May’s runoff before taking on Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, in a district that went for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

And in suburban Houston, in another Clinton district, vulnerable GOP Rep. John Culberson will also have to wait until May to find out his opponent’s identity. The vote totals — the number of votes in the GOP primary exceeded the Democratic primary tally by only 5,000 — reflect serious interest from Democrats in the district Culberson has represented for nine terms.

“This is proof positive of everything we’ve been talking about with these newly competitive districts — growing in diversity, highly educated oftentimes,” said Charlie Kelly, executive director of House Majority PAC, the main Democratic super PAC for House races. "Places that, I think, are now really competitive. We saw the transition in 2016, and we’re seeing more evidence today.”

The 'Year of the Woman' starts off strong

Texas is on track to get its first two Latina members of Congress, while also elevating women in some of the most hotly contested primaries in top-tier races throughout the state.

“The Democrats coming out of the Texas primaries tonight are women and people of color in greater numbers than we’ve seen in the past, and it reflects the diversity of the modern-day Democratic Party,” Baker said.

The Democratic nominee facing Rep. Will Hurd for his battleground seat will likely be a woman: Obama administration alum Gina Ortiz Jones finished first in a Democratic primary on Tuesday night, while Judy Canales, another former Obama administration official, was battling a male candidate for second place Wednesday morning. In Houston, Moser and Fletcher are squaring off, before one of them turns to Culberson. In Dallas, Lillian Salerno will run against Allred.​

 

LOL you been watching too many hours of Fox news as doing so is very bad for your abilities to apply common sense to your world views.

Hell we do need a medical term for a person who have sadly move into his or her personal fantasy universe thanks to Fox news.

My cable service had some problems and as a result for a week I could get no cable news service other then for fox news.

It was similar to being hit on the head with a brick over and over again for that week.

Note the fox women do have the best legs on cable.

 

The Republicans candidates basically ran unopposed as a formailty and they STILL had a record turnout which the Democrats did not and they had hotly contested races all through the state to drive out turn. As even Joe Scarborough said this morning on Morning Joe, the Blue State Wave was HIGHLY overrated.

 

Not when the Americans in question such as Trump is in bed with those foreign powers.

 

So cool when Obama is colluding, and doesn't act during HIS PRESIDENCY when Romney tells him Russia is our greatest threat (laughs and says "the cold war is over"), but now you're not cool with it?

 

The Fox babes also have the best brain housing groups, faces, bodies.

CNN and MSNBC only hire Trump bashes so that means diversity and ugly women.

 

Democratic turn out doubled since the last election which scared Cruz. A point he noted to a conservative radio commentator.