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Democrats unhappy
Even as they steal the presidency, Democrats remain unhappy because they failed to steal the Senate.
They thought people would not split the ticket. I did too. We were wrong. If you are going to stuff the ballot box, take the time to complete the whole thing.
Dave Weigel of the Washington Post tweeted, "The fact looming over all Democratic infighting is GOP turnout. Had GOP turnout been flat from 2014 to 2018, Ds would have swept the Senate. Had it been flat from 2016 to 2020, Ds would today have 400+ electoral votes and majorities in both chambers.
"Trump got 4.7 million votes in Texas in 2016, Biden got 5.2 million votes in Texas this year. The left fantasy that 'when there’s a high turnout, we win' should have been buried behind the toolshed two years ago."
Ah yes, two years ago.
Two years ago, Donald Trump enjoyed the best midterm for a president since FDR by sending 4 incumbent Democrat senators packing. His party increased its majority in the Senate by two, even as it lost the House.
This time, Republicans have gained at least 6 House seats and kept the Senate. The clock is ticking. If Biden wins, they face losing the House in 2022 while Republicans would expand their lead in the Senate.
President Donald John Trump turned the Republican Party into a tiger, weeding it of its RINOs (Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake, and the like) while attracting a young generation of voters who like his fight.
But this piece is about the Democrats and they are unhappy because Democrats have no mandate. How do you get 80 million votes and no mandate?
In fact, most Americans detest the Democrat Party positions. That is why Democrats are keeping their goals under the wraps until Inauguration Day. With two Georgia Senate races being re-voted in January, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn ordered Democrats to shut up about their real plans.
Politico said Clyburn told Democrat congressmen, "If we are going to run on Medicare for All, defund the police, socialized medicine, we're not going to win."
Reparations and the Green Deal also are taboo subjects for Democrats.
Clyburn admitted Democrats hope to sneak socialism past voters. Again. Nothing has changed. Decades of indoctrination in college have failed to make it palatable to Americans. Oh, and they are discovering about half of the Hispanics in America fled here from communism.
There was a reason Obama stopped allowing Cubans in legally. The only refugees he wants are those he can control.
Eric Levitz of New York magazine wrote, "This week, the American left clambered out of hell, only to find itself condemned to political purgatory."
Levitz whined about the Senate, writing, "A voter in Wyoming enjoys 70 times as much influence in the U.S. Senate as one in California, due to a population disparity between the two states that is much larger than any that existed at the time of the founding (at which point, many framers already found the concept of equal representation for states in the upper chamber, irrespective of population, to be an outrageous if necessary compromise)."
Well, Republican Texas has 46 times the population Democrat Vermont does, and Republican Florida has 22 times the population of Democrat Delaware.
That is how the Constitution works.
He lamented that electing Biden means Republicans will increase their majority in the Senate in the next midterm 2 years from now.
The fact that Democrats failed to flip the Senate because their ideas are insane to most Americans. They spent $315 million on 6 states -- far more than Republicans did -- and failed to flip a seat because their ideas are more at home in Wuhan than Kansas.
The Hill reported, "John Ashbrook, a Republican strategist and former aide to Mitch McConnell, said Schumer and other Senate Democrats overestimated their strength heading into Election Day and misread positive media coverage for how voters felt about Trump and GOP candidates in battleground states.
"'Ultimately arrogance was the great downfall of Democrats this cycle,' he said.
"'They thought they could sit in a conference room in Washington, D.C., and handpick candidates, throw them in the basement and lie to small-dollar donors about fake polls, showing them with big leads, ingest mountains of cash and that alone was a recipe for success,' he added, pointing to Schumer's recruitment of McGrath and the millions of dollars that flowed into her ill-fated campaign."
My wife liked her ads. We get bleed-over ads from Kentucky and Ohio in Poca. Then she found out what McGrath's policies are.
Levitz said Democrats blew their best hope to flip the Senate until 2028. The midterm is always bad for the president's party. And he wrote off 2024 because there are not enough Republican seats to flip. And so on.
We may see how a Republican Senate will work with a Democrat president. We haven't had that scenario for a century at least.
I should say it is odd that Democrats think they won and are unhappy. But that is how every spoiled child is.
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