The utter despair that I felt on November 8th, 2016 has been allayed recently by the upsurge of democratic victories in red districts since trump. The fact that red districts that trump won handily are now voting for democrats is inspiring. Although this is still just March, the enthusiasm for a tidal wave victory on November 6th, 2018 is still building. Today we have a special state election in Tennessee that would be an improbable democratic victory given the history of republican domination there, trump led the five full counties in this district with over 70% of the vote in 2016, but republicans are still sweating that race out and if the democrat should prevail it would portend major trouble for republicans like they could not imagine in the next general election.
However there is another race today for a congressional seat in Pennsylvania, again in a district that trump won by more than 20 points that seems to be trending toward the democrat instead of the republican. Already the trumps are making excuses about this race that they felt was as safe as they get just months ago and now are blaming the republican candidate as if the race is already lost before the voting begins. It is too early to be predictive about who will win this race but the confidence factor is definitely with the democrat. So although this should have been an easy win for republicans it now may be an albatross around their necks. Even should the democrat lose this race the fact that it is close is still convincing evidence that the tide has turned against republicans.
The weekly special elections from here on out right up until near general election day in November is just the remedy many of us still stunned democrats needed to get our mojo back. That the electoral college gave the presidency to trump under a cloud of confusion, and the democrat had nearly 3 million more votes, was a crushing blow to the idea of a legitimate election. Well we have moved on with the gut punch feeling still lingering but now with a hope that this particular nightmare of reality will soon be passing, given the results of the recent special elections to date. It was an anomaly that trump was installed as president but as it is now appearing, we may be on our way to not only neutering trump going forward but we are also cleaning out the rot that got him where he is now.
However there is another race today for a congressional seat in Pennsylvania, again in a district that trump won by more than 20 points that seems to be trending toward the democrat instead of the republican. Already the trumps are making excuses about this race that they felt was as safe as they get just months ago and now are blaming the republican candidate as if the race is already lost before the voting begins. It is too early to be predictive about who will win this race but the confidence factor is definitely with the democrat. So although this should have been an easy win for republicans it now may be an albatross around their necks. Even should the democrat lose this race the fact that it is close is still convincing evidence that the tide has turned against republicans.
The weekly special elections from here on out right up until near general election day in November is just the remedy many of us still stunned democrats needed to get our mojo back. That the electoral college gave the presidency to trump under a cloud of confusion, and the democrat had nearly 3 million more votes, was a crushing blow to the idea of a legitimate election. Well we have moved on with the gut punch feeling still lingering but now with a hope that this particular nightmare of reality will soon be passing, given the results of the recent special elections to date. It was an anomaly that trump was installed as president but as it is now appearing, we may be on our way to not only neutering trump going forward but we are also cleaning out the rot that got him where he is now.
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