jimnyc
12-11-2016, 03:10 PM
Anyone think bullypulpit will survive the democalypse? :)
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Think Things Are Bad for Democrats Now? Wait 'Til You See 2018
This was the year that the Democrats hoped to take back the U.S. Senate; after all, the Republicans were defending 24 seats, and the Dems only ten. Alas for them, the Trump wave pretty much swamped them, re-electing several shaky senators, such as Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, while sweeping away only the sad-sack from Illinois, Mark Kirk, and New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte, who unwisely threw in her lot with the McCain wing of the party and is now unemployed.
But in 2018, oh-oh: it's Katy bar the door --
The sprawling, 10-person Democratic leadership team that Chuck Schumer assembled on Wednesday will allow him to hear from everyone from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin. And Democrats are going to need all the wisdom they can summon — from all quarters of the party — to survive what’s coming at them in 2018.
Still nursing their wounds after last [month's] thrashing, Democrats already are grappling with how to defend 10 senators up for reelection in 2018 in states that Donald Trump carried, some resoundingly. Republicans are targeting a quintet of senators from conservative states where Trump walloped Hillary Clinton: Montana, Missouri, Indiana, North Dakota and West Virginia. The GOP could amass a filibuster-proof majority by running the table in those states and other battlegrounds.
To prevent that, Schumer will need to mine his fellow leaders to accommodate vulnerable Democrats with profoundly different ideologies and political circumstances — from Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, who also was tapped for a leadership spot, to West Virginia’s Manchin, who has gone out of his way to align himself with Trump voters... That means appealing to the white working class in some states — and stoking minority and liberal turnout in others.
Rest here - https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/12/10/think-things-are-bad-for-democrats-now-wait-til-you-see-2018/
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Think Things Are Bad for Democrats Now? Wait 'Til You See 2018
This was the year that the Democrats hoped to take back the U.S. Senate; after all, the Republicans were defending 24 seats, and the Dems only ten. Alas for them, the Trump wave pretty much swamped them, re-electing several shaky senators, such as Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, while sweeping away only the sad-sack from Illinois, Mark Kirk, and New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte, who unwisely threw in her lot with the McCain wing of the party and is now unemployed.
But in 2018, oh-oh: it's Katy bar the door --
The sprawling, 10-person Democratic leadership team that Chuck Schumer assembled on Wednesday will allow him to hear from everyone from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin. And Democrats are going to need all the wisdom they can summon — from all quarters of the party — to survive what’s coming at them in 2018.
Still nursing their wounds after last [month's] thrashing, Democrats already are grappling with how to defend 10 senators up for reelection in 2018 in states that Donald Trump carried, some resoundingly. Republicans are targeting a quintet of senators from conservative states where Trump walloped Hillary Clinton: Montana, Missouri, Indiana, North Dakota and West Virginia. The GOP could amass a filibuster-proof majority by running the table in those states and other battlegrounds.
To prevent that, Schumer will need to mine his fellow leaders to accommodate vulnerable Democrats with profoundly different ideologies and political circumstances — from Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, who also was tapped for a leadership spot, to West Virginia’s Manchin, who has gone out of his way to align himself with Trump voters... That means appealing to the white working class in some states — and stoking minority and liberal turnout in others.
Rest here - https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/12/10/think-things-are-bad-for-democrats-now-wait-til-you-see-2018/