It looks like an early appraisal of what happened draws fire. They always do when they're honest.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
Sums up data analyst interpretation of who is voting and coming out.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that the GOP voters were really pissed off this time.
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
They voted for the other half of the uniparty since once again the thuglicans let them down 100%across the board and pissed away majorities in the House and Senate that could have been used to accomplish all the things the voters told Trump and the Republican Party they wanted done.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
Fresh from Ignorance is Bliss. It wasn't the economy. It was 100% failure to legislate. The voters held the legislature accountable. And if we're being honest, it might be time to be honest with the country and tell them just how any force on earth could fix an economy with this deficit, national debt, interest payment due on that debt, mushrooming entitlement spending and the FED screwing the money supply so much that they have entirely gamed inflation and made the $ worthless.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
Single stupid and obvious point of failure. A pollster is only as good as..........? What exactly? Everyone now knows that they make it up, fake it, lie about it and ask the wrong questions. Vance says he asked one pollster. That's not science or inquiry, that's myth, lies and voodoo all rolled up in one person.
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Charming. We better hope and pray our Statesmen get more on the ball about running for office because if that list is what they use going forth, we're screwed.
There is a war but we are pinning our hopes on prevailing by imposing a blockade. Blockades always work. They never fail. They destroy the enemy but they take time. It takes shooting to establish one, more to maintain it, but once it is in place it is devastatingly effective. Some recent examples to demonstrate:
The North Sea Blockade of Germany squeezed the Germans to death and we kept squeezing long after the Germans signed the Armistice to starve them into submitting to the stupidest peace treaty in history, the Treaty of Versailles which locked in and guaranteed World War II would follow immediately once the generation of fighting men reached the age to be drafted and thrown into War.
The Union's blockade of the Confederacy was decisive in ending the war. It took a long time but the war materials, munitions and goods that the Confederacy had to have in order to stand any chance of winning dried up and vanished shortly after the blockade went into place.
The USN blockade of the Japanese home islands destroyed their war machine and their ability to make war and feed themselves. The entire world except North and South America was on the brink of mass famine in 1945 and only exceptional efforts from the USA saved Europe and Japan from the wars they started.
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
There is no diplomatic resolution to a war of this nature. It is an existential war and the one war of our time. When the mullahs get the bomb they will use it. 9/11 and the following attacks should show even the stupidest and most brain dead dolt where they're going to use the bombs they get first. I wonder how many right of center people went ahead and voted in the communists, socialists, demagogues, liars, knaves and thieves because deep down they know that when Iran gets the bomb they're going to redecorate Manhattan and DC with them.
If I was a Saudi, the Emir of Dubai, or a denizen of Tel Aviv, I'd be concerned about three other places they'd bomb in a heartbeat but then I don't live in Riyadh, Dubai or Tel Aviv and there is no particular reason I can think of for any American to worry about the fates of cities overseas when we really don't care that much for any of our own cities.
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The Solution as you call it was to go in to the Senate and the House and tell them to push through the Legislation that they had promised the voters and to do it smoothly, professionally and speedily. The Democrats are going to bless everyone in the world with amnesty and reopen the floodgates of USAID to help everyone on the planet except working Americans. The voters know that.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
No, it wasn't the war. Even the dumbest of dumb voters knows that the war is the President's War and they wouldn't have held the legislators accountable for that unless they clearly saw that their legislators had done nothing in the last two years but FUCK THEM OVER.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Here in metroparkcentralis we were given our choice of a scheming weasel for Governor or a deepest of deep state insider to vote for and their ONLY campaign ads, which were endless and identical, did nothing but hurl venom and distortions at their opponents without ever once telling the voters a single reason to vote for them. I saw 22,000 ads for the two of them and not once did they offer me a reason to go out and vote for the weasel or the deep state two faced lying bastard who did nothing for two years in the Senate. (note: I still voted for them. Almost anything is better than what we got)
The Pseudo-War brought out the Democrats but they vote like insane ignorant morons every time so their vote for idiocies like socialism, communism and islam were perfectly normal but the thing that really bothered as all, even those of us who held our noses and voted for the weasel and useless drone was that the PARTY offered no realistic alternatives and what we had here was repeated in every single State. The Ruthuglicans put up shitty worthless candidates or offered known liars, drones and weasels and we knew it.
It's a pity there is no Quality Control in the Party to weed out the unsuitable resourced scumbags and losers. If only there was some popular grass-roots effort to build the Party from the ground up and choose good candidates to the people for their review and confirmation.
So, there you have the inside scoop on what really happened Tuesday and I didn't even get into the vast cheating and chicanery. The Republican Party leaders in Congress had your chance to make things right and as usual, they blew it.
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