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https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/05/gop-midterm-optimism-misplaced/The GOPs Misguided Midterm Optimism
February 5, 2018 at 11:17 pm EST
By Taegan Goddard
Charlie Cook: Republican hopes these days rest on two things. First, their deficit on the generic congressional ballot seems to have declined from 13 points in late December to about 5 points now Its plausible that passage of the tax-cut bill in December put a bit of starch in Republican voters shorts The GOPs second hope is that the economy will remain strong through the election and that at some point, President Trump and congressional Republicans will begin to get some credit for it.
But while these high hopes were emanating from last weeks Republican congressional retreat at The Greenbrier, data from individual races on both the district and statewide level reveal that the plight of Republicans actually appears to be even more difficult than it seemed last fall. This is particularly true with individual-race polling, but other indices such as candidate recruitment and campaign fundraising are sending Danger, Will Robinson! messages. This is particularly true in the House, where there are quite a few GOP incumbents in competitive and potentially competitive races who are not raising the kind of money they will need if there is much of a Democratic wave at all.
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The GOPs Misguided Midterm Optimism (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2018
OP
The market dropped over 1000 points yesterday...what is really weird is it wasn't covered...usually
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#2
Freddie
(9,275 posts)1. "The economy will remain strong"
Demsrule86
(68,685 posts)2. The market dropped over 1000 points yesterday...what is really weird is it wasn't covered...usually
they have a market icon on various shows but nothing yesterday.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)3. Don't know what you were watching
but every cable news network, including fox, had the market numbers in the corner while donnie was speaking and then when the market really started to dive they all - including fox - broke away from donnie to report on the market.
Demsrule86
(68,685 posts)6. Thanks watching late...
I was pretty worried.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)8. It wasn't the top story on
Rachel or Erin (and I don't think for Lawrence) but since the top story was the Democratic response to that moronic memo, I was fine.
Demsrule86
(68,685 posts)9. Let's keep the pressure on!
mcar
(42,374 posts)4. It was the lead story on CNN
and they ran the falling market data side by side with Dotard in OH bragging about the economy.
Demsrule86
(68,685 posts)5. I was stuck on the side of the road waiting with my daughter for a tow truck so I watched really
late. I usually tape the shows but we had snow so the tv must have been out ( we stream). Glad that it was covered. Thanks.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)7. And lots of long-term GOP incumbents retiring
that can't be good for them IMHO.