Because the other 4 data points collectively aren’t as important as that single one. In the GA race, Dems and the GOP spent ridiculous amounts of time and money on a special election seat because it was a momentum setter for both groups. It’s a very good indicator of what is to come with every one of those 5 point margin races you mention in the coming cycle.
Perhaps, but as @Dan_Theman says, we need to be very cautious with this optimism. Midterms usually favor the minority party, and especially midterms where the majority party and or President seem to be doing a poor job. But if November 2016 taught us anything, it’s that statistical norms are out the window right now, and we’ve never had an atmosphere of ideologically charged rhetoric like we have now. Conservatives will be whipping their base into a frenzy for midterms, pushing the “Libtard Agenda” boogeyman to it’s fullest so that the masses come out and once again vote directly against their best interests even as their Republican Congress steals their health insurance right out from under them to fund another tax break for the rich. Three points to the left is likely to be far more difficult to achieve than most pundits seem to think right now.
I’d love to see how a legit populist who is Bernie-ish on economics, but anti-SJW, anti-Islamic extremism, pro-“American” (but not batshit about it) values would do vs the corporate Republicans as an insurgency in primaries.
That was the message folks who voted for Trump believed in.
Quaro
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No biggie, just the President of the United States threatening retaliatory taxes on people covering him unfavorably.
Not even that, companies that share a common owner.
Nesrie
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What’s an internet tax? is he talking about state sales taxes, as in not federal taxes?
The fevered dream of everyone involved in government budgets.
Timex
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Parsing Trump’s statements is like listening to your dog bark and saying, “what is he trying to say?”
His statements have no meaning, beyond a demonstration of his idiocy. They are just babbling nonsense tumbling from an addled mind.
Timex
4328
This is some good optics.
Also contradicted by other studies . The one Chaffetz cites excludes employers with locations out of the city.
Timex
4330
Also chaffetz is a massive tool.
Well, yes, but I was trying to keep the conversation elevated.
Hey, Timex isn’t a Democrat, so this is a prime example of working across the aisles!
FWIW, if Trump was trying to tank Amazon’s stock then he failed. It finished the day up 13.155 (1.39%)
This could be the title of either a Donald Trump biography or a Philip K. Dick short story.
-Tom
JD
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At least he didn’t write “cyber tax”.
ShivaX
4337
Pretty much. He’s barking at something he doesn’t like: Bezos and the Post in this case.
ShivaX
4339
The Shoggoth in the White House, by HP Lovecraft.
Meet the latest wrestling villain:
[quote]
“You people need to be reprogrammed. You continually vote against your own interests. You put people in Congress and the White House that aren’t going to help you. They’re not going to bring your jobs back.”[/quote]
As they say in GLOW, a great heel makes the face.
