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Hey, Trump's POTUS, and the Reps receive all of their info from Fox, InfoWars, Breitbart, Drudge, etc. So, let your Bigot Flag fly! There are few repercussions.
So, what you're saying is, that this is yet one more example of Trump and Reps subverting the Constitution, despite their professed adoration and reverence for it?
Agreed.
GOP Rep from Valencia CA
?CNBC article: GOP Rep. Knight, facing tight California race against Democrat Hill, distances himself from Trump
GOP Rep. Steve Knight has been distancing himself from some of President Trump's policies, particularly when it comes to immigration.
Knight is facing Democrat Katie Hill in a tight and closely watched race where other key issues include health care and taxes.
Hill, who is running ahead of the incumbent in a recent LA Times poll, has identified as bisexual and made LGBTQ rights a part of her platform.?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/11/gop...nces-himself-from-trump-in-tight-ca-race.html
Not a surprise.
?CNBC article: GOP Rep. Knight, facing tight California race against Democrat Hill, distances himself from Trump
GOP Rep. Steve Knight has been distancing himself from some of President Trump's policies, particularly when it comes to immigration.
Knight is facing Democrat Katie Hill in a tight and closely watched race where other key issues include health care and taxes.
Hill, who is running ahead of the incumbent in a recent LA Times poll, has identified as bisexual and made LGBTQ rights a part of her platform.?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/11/gop...nces-himself-from-trump-in-tight-ca-race.html
Not a surprise.
Perspective
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fortune11 said:
Hey, Trump's POTUS, and the Reps receive all of their info from Fox, InfoWars, Breitbart, Drudge, etc. So, let your Bigot Flag fly! There are few repercussions.
South OC and North San Diego
?The poll results came with the caveats that it surveyed a small sample?502?of district voters and the 10 point lead enjoyed by Levin could be offset by a 4.7 -point margin of error, 8 percent of those responding said they haven?t made up their minds and the traditional potential for low Democratic voter turnout in the midterm Nov. 6 election could give Harkey an advantage.?
https://voiceofoc.org/2018/09/ny-ti...t-levin-leads-republican-harkey-by-10-points/
?The poll results came with the caveats that it surveyed a small sample?502?of district voters and the 10 point lead enjoyed by Levin could be offset by a 4.7 -point margin of error, 8 percent of those responding said they haven?t made up their minds and the traditional potential for low Democratic voter turnout in the midterm Nov. 6 election could give Harkey an advantage.?
https://voiceofoc.org/2018/09/ny-ti...t-levin-leads-republican-harkey-by-10-points/
morekaos
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So a blue state turns bluer...not surprising but as it changes to a darker shade it will lose influence. We will likely lose a seat in 2020 and representation in congress and the electoral college further deepening the rift with the rest of the country.
Will California lose a seat in Congress after the next census? You can bet Trump hopes so
Here's a mischievous way for President Trump to get back at pesky California: Ask people in the 2020 census whether they're U.S. citizens.
Then the president can chortle if immigrants who are here illegally duck away from participating in the population count.
That would be a laugher for Trump because without a maximum head count in California, the feds would need to spend less money in the state on grants and subsidies. Maybe $2.1 billion less each year for a decade until the next census. Total it up: $21 billion.
Even sweeter for Trump, this deep-blue state very likely would lose some political juice ? specifically one U.S. House seat and, thus, one presidential electoral vote.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-democrats-census-trump-2020-20180125-story.html
Will California lose a seat in Congress after the next census? You can bet Trump hopes so
Here's a mischievous way for President Trump to get back at pesky California: Ask people in the 2020 census whether they're U.S. citizens.
Then the president can chortle if immigrants who are here illegally duck away from participating in the population count.
That would be a laugher for Trump because without a maximum head count in California, the feds would need to spend less money in the state on grants and subsidies. Maybe $2.1 billion less each year for a decade until the next census. Total it up: $21 billion.
Even sweeter for Trump, this deep-blue state very likely would lose some political juice ? specifically one U.S. House seat and, thus, one presidential electoral vote.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-democrats-census-trump-2020-20180125-story.html
Perspective
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morekaos said:
So, what you're saying is, that this is yet one more example of Trump and Reps subverting the Constitution, despite their professed adoration and reverence for it?
Agreed.
?Southern California Republicans are avoiding ?the T-word?
His last name has five letters, but Republicans running for office in Southern California are as reluctant to mention ?Donald Trump? as they are to drop one of the few still forbidden four-letter words in public.
It?s a reality of the double political life many candidates on both sides of the political aisle are leading in 2018.
In a state that Hillary Clinton carried by 30 points in the 2016 election, Trump remains very unpopular. Two thirds of the state?s voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, according to an April poll by UC Berkeley?s Institute of Governmental Studies.?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.oc...rnia-republicans-are-avoiding-the-t-word/amp/
His last name has five letters, but Republicans running for office in Southern California are as reluctant to mention ?Donald Trump? as they are to drop one of the few still forbidden four-letter words in public.
It?s a reality of the double political life many candidates on both sides of the political aisle are leading in 2018.
In a state that Hillary Clinton carried by 30 points in the 2016 election, Trump remains very unpopular. Two thirds of the state?s voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, according to an April poll by UC Berkeley?s Institute of Governmental Studies.?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.oc...rnia-republicans-are-avoiding-the-t-word/amp/
Perspective
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I'll never understand, even in this anonymous TI context, why folks so freely relinquish credibility and character. It is amazing.
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morekaos
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Putting this thread back on track....People vote with their pocket books not emotion. Dollars will win over hate.
Don?t expect a big Democratic wave this fall, a new CNBC poll says
With economic optimism soaring in the country, will Democrats be able to sweep to power in either house of Congress or will buoyant sentiment help Republicans keep hold of their Congressional majorities?
The latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey offers mixed signals, but leans against a wave Democratic election like that those that swept Republicans to power in 2010 and 2014.
The poll of 800 Americans across the country, with a margin of error of 3.5 percent, found a six-point Democratic lead on the question of who voters will choose in the November congressional elections. The 42 percent to 36 percent margin is not far from what pollsters would expect given the greater percentage of Democratic registered voters.
?A six point differential is not something that?s going to cause a big electoral wave,? said Micah Roberts, the Republican pollster on the CNBC poll, a partner Public Opinion Strategies. ?Economic confidence that people have among a lot of groups is providing a buffer? for Republicans.
Indeed, the poll found that 48 percent of the public is optimistic about the current economy and optimistic it will get better, the highest level in the poll?s 11-year history and more than double the 20 percent registered in the December 2016 survey. The poll, conducted Oct. 4th through the 7th, shows 83 percent of Republicans are optimistic but also 22 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Independent voters.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/mixed-signals-for-democrat-blue-wave-in-november-cnbc-survey-says.html
Don?t expect a big Democratic wave this fall, a new CNBC poll says
With economic optimism soaring in the country, will Democrats be able to sweep to power in either house of Congress or will buoyant sentiment help Republicans keep hold of their Congressional majorities?
The latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey offers mixed signals, but leans against a wave Democratic election like that those that swept Republicans to power in 2010 and 2014.
The poll of 800 Americans across the country, with a margin of error of 3.5 percent, found a six-point Democratic lead on the question of who voters will choose in the November congressional elections. The 42 percent to 36 percent margin is not far from what pollsters would expect given the greater percentage of Democratic registered voters.
?A six point differential is not something that?s going to cause a big electoral wave,? said Micah Roberts, the Republican pollster on the CNBC poll, a partner Public Opinion Strategies. ?Economic confidence that people have among a lot of groups is providing a buffer? for Republicans.
Indeed, the poll found that 48 percent of the public is optimistic about the current economy and optimistic it will get better, the highest level in the poll?s 11-year history and more than double the 20 percent registered in the December 2016 survey. The poll, conducted Oct. 4th through the 7th, shows 83 percent of Republicans are optimistic but also 22 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Independent voters.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/mixed-signals-for-democrat-blue-wave-in-november-cnbc-survey-says.html
I know it?s hard to follow this back and forth. But I came across this article that you must read.
As deficit grows, GOP leaders eye cuts to Medicare, Social Security
?Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who currently chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, sat down with CNBC's John Harwood, who asked the Ohio Republican about the fact that the deficit is soaring in the wake of his party's tax breaks.
Predictably, the congressman responded to the issue the way GOP lawmakers nearly always respond to the issue.
Harwood: No misgivings about a tax cut that was not paid for, that's allowing debt and deficits to rise like it is now?
Stivers: I do think we need to deal with our some of our spending. We've got to try to figure out how to spend less.
Note the pivot: massive tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations has turned a modest budget shortfall into an enormous budget shortfall. Stivers sees that as a problem in need of attention, not by reversing course on regressive tax policies, but by looking at spending.
And that, naturally, led to a conversation between Stivers and Harwood on social-insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare -- what are frequently referred to as "entitlements" -- which Republicans want to cut in order to clean up the budget mess they created with tax cuts.
If this sounds familiar, there's a good reason for that. It was just a few months ago that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the "name of the game on debt and deficits" is cutting "entitlements."
https://www.google.com/amp/www.msnb...leaders-eye-cuts-medicare-social-security/amp
As deficit grows, GOP leaders eye cuts to Medicare, Social Security
?Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who currently chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, sat down with CNBC's John Harwood, who asked the Ohio Republican about the fact that the deficit is soaring in the wake of his party's tax breaks.
Predictably, the congressman responded to the issue the way GOP lawmakers nearly always respond to the issue.
Harwood: No misgivings about a tax cut that was not paid for, that's allowing debt and deficits to rise like it is now?
Stivers: I do think we need to deal with our some of our spending. We've got to try to figure out how to spend less.
Note the pivot: massive tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations has turned a modest budget shortfall into an enormous budget shortfall. Stivers sees that as a problem in need of attention, not by reversing course on regressive tax policies, but by looking at spending.
And that, naturally, led to a conversation between Stivers and Harwood on social-insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare -- what are frequently referred to as "entitlements" -- which Republicans want to cut in order to clean up the budget mess they created with tax cuts.
If this sounds familiar, there's a good reason for that. It was just a few months ago that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the "name of the game on debt and deficits" is cutting "entitlements."
https://www.google.com/amp/www.msnb...leaders-eye-cuts-medicare-social-security/amp