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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTuesday's elections show that GOP candidates will be bound to Trump no matter what,
I hope there is lots of glue around come the mid-terms!
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Tuesday's elections show that GOP candidates will be bound to Trump no matter what, @RonBrownstein argues http://theatln.tc/2yREAzh
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Democrats' Narrow Path to Winning the House
The partys suburban sweep in Virginia and New Jersey offers one template for 2018. But Democrats will have little room for error if they dont expand their coalition.
Governor-elect Ralph Northam at his election-night party
Win McNamee / Getty Images
Ronald Brownstein Nov 8, 2017 Politics
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The Democrats coalition of transformation flexed its muscles Tuesday to deliver a resounding repudiation of Donald Trump and crystallize the risk the GOP has taken by allowing him to redefine the party in his image.
But despite the partys sweep in Virginia, New Jersey, and scattered other local races, the results also showed that Democrats are unlikely to solve all of their electoral problems without regaining more ground with the competing coalition of restoration that flocked to Trump in 2016.
In that way, the elections of Ralph Northam and Phil Murphy in governors races in Virginia and New Jersey, respectivelyas well as the historic Democratic victories in the Virginia state House electionsshowed the party a clear, suburbs-centric path toward recapturing the U.S. House in 2018. But those contests also hinted that Republicans could still narrowly repel Democrats by defending their redoubts in small-town, exurban, and rural America.
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The coalition of transformation is the phrase Ive applied to the modern Democratic voting base thats mostly clustered around the nations major metropolitan centers: minorities, Millennials, and college-educated whites, especially women. These voters, who generally express optimism about the demographic, cultural, and economic changes remaking American life, provided Democrats with insurmountable margins on Tuesday that reflected their intense antipathy toward Trump.
For months, Republican strategists, and even some Democratic ones, have argued that because Trump is such a unique figure, voters unhappy with him were less likely to take it out on other candidates from his party than theyd been with previous presidents. Tuesdays results exploded that idea. In both the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, exit polls found a clear majority of voters disapproved of Trumps job performanceand that in both contests about 85 percent of those dissatisfied voters backed the Democrat. That result fits squarely in the range typical of House and Senate elections over the past two decades. In other words, it clearly signaled to congressional Republicans that they will be bound to Trump more than they hoped or expected in future elections.......................................
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Tuesday's elections show that GOP candidates will be bound to Trump no matter what, (Original Post)
riversedge
Nov 2017
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This is why the GOP establishment tried to end him early. This is what they feared.
underpants
Nov 2017
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underpants
(182,904 posts)1. This is why the GOP establishment tried to end him early. This is what they feared.
From the overt racist to the exposure of their Radical Evangelical Wackos, both of which they've been hiding for years, to losing the control of the base by just feeding them strips from the touchstone words table. Oddly it was they're own creation of the Teabaggers (to hide a part in full free fall) that started all this.
Kath2
(3,089 posts)2. i hope so, too.
Trump is a disgrace, but he puts all of the hateful stupidity and bigotry out there for all too see. And most of us despise it.