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1. The Presidential race is still too close to call though Biden appears in the catbird seat. Trump will have to run the table on every remaining state to pull it out.
2. The Democrats have unlimited money and aren't afraid to spend it. They sank $200,000,000.00 into Senate races in Texas and North Carolina only to have their candidates in each state lose by 10 points. Bloomberg spent well over $100,000,000.00 in Florida alone after spending almost one billion in a failed Presidential bid. They are perfectly willing to spend vast amounts of money from technocrat billionaires on races they have little chance of winning just hoping something sticks. I notice they don't talk about campaign finance reform any more
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3. Pollster Frank Luntz said a week before the election that if the polls were as wrong this year as in 2016 it would be the death of the industry. Well they were at least as wrong. There was no "blue wave," far from it. Not only did the Dems not take back the Senate (a couple of races have not been called but the "Repug" is ahead in both) they actually lost seats in the house.
4. The "Thought Police" are not going away. Using social media they have suceeded in clubbing almost anyone who commits the slightest infraction of their orthodoxy into silence. The Girl Scouts put up an add sowing all of the women members of the Supreme Court including Judge Coney Barrett and took it down after a torrent of social media attacks. It's too bad these people don't do what the head of Goya did and tell the Twitter trolls to "pound sand."
5. The United States has become two countries politically. The Democrats aren't just the liberal party; they are also the secular party and don't even try to hide it any more. The Republicans are the party of professing church going Christians. Of course there is crossover but overall that fact is irrefutable.
6. For the first time since the 1930s the Democrats are worried about the minority vote. Trump took a bit over 30% of the Latino vote nationwide, a good performance if you are a Republican. More concerning to the Dems was the 12% of the Black vote that came out for Trump and the number of high profile black hip hop and rap artists who supported him. If the Republican share of the Black vote exceeds 15% consistently the Dems are well and truly screwed. Texas is the model for the Republicans. Non Hispanic whites are a minority in Texas but once again the Republicans swept the statewide races and Trump got a solid win. Republicans in Texas regularly get 40% of the Latino vote (which is what Trump got in Texas this time) and will continue to win as long as they are able to do that. One of the things that should concern the Democrats is the shift in #5. Demographically the most Christian group in the United States is Black women. Public radio is Democrat/left leaning. I sometimes tune into the Black public radio station here in Houston and on Sunday morning it is wall to wall gospel music with a church service thrown in. You'll never hear that on the white run public radio station here, or anywhere else. Latinos also have a very high percentage of professing Christians. I would never underestimate the Republicans ability to screw this up, though.
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2. The Democrats have unlimited money and aren't afraid to spend it. They sank $200,000,000.00 into Senate races in Texas and North Carolina only to have their candidates in each state lose by 10 points. Bloomberg spent well over $100,000,000.00 in Florida alone after spending almost one billion in a failed Presidential bid. They are perfectly willing to spend vast amounts of money from technocrat billionaires on races they have little chance of winning just hoping something sticks. I notice they don't talk about campaign finance reform any more
.3. Pollster Frank Luntz said a week before the election that if the polls were as wrong this year as in 2016 it would be the death of the industry. Well they were at least as wrong. There was no "blue wave," far from it. Not only did the Dems not take back the Senate (a couple of races have not been called but the "Repug" is ahead in both) they actually lost seats in the house.
4. The "Thought Police" are not going away. Using social media they have suceeded in clubbing almost anyone who commits the slightest infraction of their orthodoxy into silence. The Girl Scouts put up an add sowing all of the women members of the Supreme Court including Judge Coney Barrett and took it down after a torrent of social media attacks. It's too bad these people don't do what the head of Goya did and tell the Twitter trolls to "pound sand."
5. The United States has become two countries politically. The Democrats aren't just the liberal party; they are also the secular party and don't even try to hide it any more. The Republicans are the party of professing church going Christians. Of course there is crossover but overall that fact is irrefutable.
6. For the first time since the 1930s the Democrats are worried about the minority vote. Trump took a bit over 30% of the Latino vote nationwide, a good performance if you are a Republican. More concerning to the Dems was the 12% of the Black vote that came out for Trump and the number of high profile black hip hop and rap artists who supported him. If the Republican share of the Black vote exceeds 15% consistently the Dems are well and truly screwed. Texas is the model for the Republicans. Non Hispanic whites are a minority in Texas but once again the Republicans swept the statewide races and Trump got a solid win. Republicans in Texas regularly get 40% of the Latino vote (which is what Trump got in Texas this time) and will continue to win as long as they are able to do that. One of the things that should concern the Democrats is the shift in #5. Demographically the most Christian group in the United States is Black women. Public radio is Democrat/left leaning. I sometimes tune into the Black public radio station here in Houston and on Sunday morning it is wall to wall gospel music with a church service thrown in. You'll never hear that on the white run public radio station here, or anywhere else. Latinos also have a very high percentage of professing Christians. I would never underestimate the Republicans ability to screw this up, though.
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