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Thread: Remember When Mid-term Elections Were Touted As A “Referendum” On Trump?

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    Remember When Mid-term Elections Were Touted As A “Referendum” On Trump?

    Yesterday the Democrats in Louisiana were decimated in a broad election and the MSM were quite as church mice —

    The last of the Louisiana state election numbers are in, and it's not pretty for the Democrats.

    Not only does its moderate Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, face a runoff, as noted here, but the state Senate has taken a supermajority. And a whole bunch of key state offices went squarely to Republicans. Funny how the press isn't covering this much.

    But Guy Benson at Townhall is, and he found a Democratic Party "decimated":

    Among statewide office-holders, the incumbent GOP Lieutenant Governor (68 percent), Attorney General (66 percent), Treasurer (60 percent, and Agricultural Commissioner (58 percent) were all re-elected without the need for a run-off, under the state's 'jungle primary'-style system. It also appears that the solid Republican majorities in both state legislative chambers will remain intact — with the GOP expanding its Senate advantage into super-majority territory by picking up a pair of Democratic seats:

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...s_roll_in.html
    Oh, and btw, President Trump held a massive rally in the state the day before the election, and the next day the off year election saw record voting totals.

    It gets worse for Democrats, when you look deeper —

    ... John Couvillon, a Louisiana-based pollster who surveyed the field extensively, said Republican gains came in districts that had long voted for Democratic legislators, even as they became more culturally conservative — so-called ancestrally Democratic regions in rural areas north and west of Lafayette.

    "These parishes had never before given Republicans legislative candidates serious consideration," Couvillon wrote, even though President Trump won all three with more than 60 percent of the vote in 2016...
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    It is just as likely, Joe, that Trump failing to win the popular vote was more important than you may be willing to admit. Keep in mind, some of the states Trump "won" in the electoral count have now changed their voting laws to compensate - ensuring such wins are harder to achieve.

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    I’m thinking you are confusing prospective changes that predicate those electoral changes only if enough other states follow, which they have not done, so it means zip. Correct me if I am wrong because I have not been paying close attention.
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    Republican uptick is widespread —

    After the so-called “blue wave” of Democratic victories in the 2018 midterm election, the grassroots of both parties looked to the 2019 off-year as a testing ground for the 2020 presidential cycles. With only four states in play and sporadic special elections, 2019’s small skirmishes were hailed as indicators for how the Republican Party would fare in 2020.

    The result? Well, predictions of another blue wave in 2020 have been tempered by a steady GOP wave in 2019 that signals bad news for Democrats as congressional redistricting kicks off...

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...2018-blue-wave
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