33 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The recent electoral events are in districts that were not critical and were not out of the ordinary. People who vote in off cycle elections are usually voting against someone or something and not for a specific candidate. It is a common characteristic of both Democrat and Republican administrations.

There is no argument that Democrat voting intentions have increased. However, a closer look shows that the trend is most significant in Democrat held districts and seats. It is an increase in voter polarization. The erosion of Republican votes may not be enough to swing control because the Republican majority is too high in some regions.

If you go back and read my comment, I acknowledge the increase of Democrat support. The reason I gave Michigan as an example is that it is symptomatic of several key seats/districts that must be won by the Democrats. Abdul El-Sayed is running for the Senate Democrat nominee. He has enthused the Arab ethnic and the youth demographic which is critical for a victory. The sitting Congresswoman Haley Stevens is a young female and the favourite of the party hierarchy, afro Americans, older voters, whites and donors. State Senator Mallory McMorrow is strongly supported by womens groups and progressives. She was a supporter of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's candidacy and endorsed Kamala Harris. The only person who has a realistic shot at capturing GOP and independent votes is Stevens. If she is not nominee, it is unlikely El-Sayed or McMorrow can win. If Stevens manages a victory, it will be expensive. She would be going up against the presumed GOP nominee, Mike Rogers, who was a popular and well regarded Congressman. The primary process is not helping the Democrats.

The DNC big tent strategy is fine for local elections, but it just won't work at a national or a statewide level. Conservatives, moderate/centrists are not comfortable sharing space with the vocal, aggressive urban activist leftists that now dominate some parts of the party. The Democrats do best when they stay in the middle. An embrace of the Mamdami type agenda will torpedo democrat national prospects.

Apart from the fact that you seem to be making categorical calls out of thin air, you seem to be seriously underestimating the effect of Donald Trump on the elections. He's not exactly popular right now is he? You think the majority of Americans might want put some hindrance in front of him?

And the fact is that there are some pretty astonishing results in some deep red republican state elections where the incumbent was other voted out or won with a greatly reduced margin.

And in New Jersey, a very left wing candidate actually performed 5 percentage points better than the seat that was vacated by Mikie Sherrill, the previous occupant of the seat.

Also, there are generic polls of which party voters prefer in the next congressional elections. Nate Silver has the Dems up 5.6 percent on average. Not quite the 7.2% they had in 2018, which was a landslide for Democrats, but there's still time and the longer the Iran War goes on and/or the more destruction gulf state infrastructure that occurs, the less popular Trump will be. When a candidate like Trump lies about bringing prices down - not just the rate of inflation but actual prices - and, of course that doesn't happen, or when he makes a big deal about not starting any wars, and then starts one, it doesn't leave voters exactly smitten. According to the average of the polls, voters now hold him in lower esteem than they did Biden when it comes to the management of the economy.

Kamala Harris is the 2028 frontrunner for the Democrats right now.

Please God let it be her.

14 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Kamala Harris is the 2028 frontrunner for the Democrats right now.

Please God let it be her.

AOC as VP , She'll be touted as a experience foreign policy expert. 555

6 minutes ago, riclag said:

AOC as VP , She'll be touted as a experience foreign policy expert. 555

No, I think the short list is down to Jussie Smollet and Jimmy Kimmle

On 3/8/2025 at 10:58 AM, connda said:

NEW: Bill O’Reilly says Donald Trump is bringing the Democratic Party “on the verge of COLLAPSE.”

He says it could take 20 years — an entire generation — for Democrats to recover.

It turns out, when your entire platform revolves around hating and opposing Trump, you no longer have a platform worth running on.

O’Reilly explains:

“I think the Democratic Party is on the verge of collapse. And I liken it to 1931, when Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party basically said to the very suffering American people in the Depression, ‘We’re not helping you. You got to do it on your own. It’s all about self-reliance. We’re not going to give you any safety nets.’ That led to five consecutive Democratic wins. Five. Not until Dwight Eisenhower, 20 years later, did the Republicans recover. I see the same scenario for the Democrats.”

“What happened [to the Democratic Party]? What happened was Trump hatred. And that’s what the headline is of the speech [Tuesday] night. When you are hating someone, you lose all perspective, you lose all feeling, you’re consumed. And I wrote a book, it’s going to be out in September, called Confronting Evil. And these people who did all these terrible things, they all had one thing in common. They hated. They were just haters across the board. That’s what you saw in that chamber last night.”

 

 

 

Personally I'm not a fan of Bill O'Reilly, I don't even like him.  He's an arrogant jack-ass. But he does have a point.  I can clearly see it right here on AseanNow in the reaction of Democrat and progressive liberal AN members.  We're right back to Trump's first term where these people literally spent four years spewing hatred for Trump at every chance possible on social media.  And they are right back at it for Trump's second term.

They are irrational.  As O'Reilly rightfully points out, "When you are hating someone, you lose all perspective, you lose all feeling, you’re consumed."  These people are consumed which leads them to completely over-the-top antics like this unending expression of Trump-hatred on social media. The antics drives rational people around them to reject what they claim they stand for. 
The antics of the entire Democrat collective in Congress during the Trump speech last Tuesday exemplifies just how far out of touch these people are.  In my own opinion it would be a good thing if the Democrat Party self-destructs and then rises again out of the ashes in the form that I personally remember: An organization which supported rational liberalism and social policies, and who were collectively anti-war.  Well, I can wish. 

 

You could quite easily swap out Trump for Obama in this hissy little diatribe.