I have just posted a new subscribers-only post on what happened in the special election in North Carolina’s ninth congressional district last night. I would be delighted for you to read it and comment below.
For those of you that aren’t subscribers, I’ve written down my three main points here.
Republicans are playing defense (again) for the 2020 congressional elections—and maybe the presidential contest, too.
Republicans are still suffering a harsh blood-letting in suburban areas of the country. Suburbanites are engaged and seemingly increasingly anti-Trump, though NC-09 is only one datum and the story in Charlotte may not be the story everywhere.
Trump's rallies seem to be hurting, not helping, him. As he continues to campaign across the country, will he just continue to activate his opponents?
Democrats have become worthless STINKING yellow belly COWARDS who NEVER fight back when attacked by the damn republican bully bastards abd they FAIL to rally their base progressive voters to come out in large numbers to vote FOR their candidates and Allow SCUM BAG republican bully bastards to get away with holding HUGE RALLIES aimed at getting the HATE GROUP people to come out and vote in HUGE NUMBERS to vote for the DANN Republican!
What happened yesterday in the NORTH CAROLINA special election is a harbinger of more bad things in store for the COWARDLY "Democrats"
What that means is that in Novemver of 2020 the only things the COWARDLY "Democrats" will win is MORE STABS IN THE FACE and kicks in the crotch from the damn republican BULLY BASTARDS!
Well, I'm not impressed by the result. The 2017 Democratic margin in special elections averaged 16 points, while McCready beat the partisan level by about 10 points, and did quite a bit less well in the rural areas near Charlotte than he did in 2018. Obviously the Democrats need more than a special election to get them to the polls, but Republicans seemingly need no such motivation. It seems to me what you mainly see in NC 09 is an enthusiasm slippage among Democrats - and why could Barack Obama not be brought in to counteract Trump's rally? Where's the national leadership to help?
I'm not sure Obama would have helped. McCready lost his edge in Robeson County, because their state senator Britt worked hard to get Bishop the votes he needed there. Bishop has also helped with state legislation for the Lumbee tribe that live there. In this case, it appears to be local and state versus national politics. The one thing I do agree with you and the other comments is that the local Democratic party needs to get their act together. They appear to have dropped the ball here.
The "Democrats" both in local areas and on the national stage need to be placed with REAL BACKBONE DEMOCRATS and they need to purge their house by driving the "Moderate" ones, who betray them by taking sides with the DAMN GOP on issues that have to do with women's reproductive rights and common sense gun control OUT of their party so that real progressive voters will come out in large numbers and vote for them on Election Day. As long as they keep on being COWARDLY I will not donate even one cent to them.
The only two organizations I give to are Planned Parenthood which DOES fight for women's to rights and the FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION which DOES fight to restore SEPARATION of religion abd government in this country!
You know more about the local politics than I do, and your reasoning sounds logical, so the only thing I would say is that my argument here is that the rural (flyover) voters claim Democrats don't care about people like them, so having Obama (or any of the current candidates) pay a visit to Robeson County might have helped counteract that feeling of neglect.
You are right. the FAILURE on the part of the COWARDLY "Democrats" to counteract TRUMP'S rallies that get HIS BASE of hate group people to come out and vote by having decent rallies of their own getting popular democrat politicians (such as former president Obama) to go down to North Carolina to rally the progressive voters to come out and vote democrat is what is causing the whole Democratic Party to be DESTROYED!
The 9th was gerrymandered to favor Republican candidates. The Republican won by a comfortable margin. Some say Trump helped in Cumberland County; there's really no way to tell how the vote would have gone down without his visit. The only thing I took away from this Special Election is that it's another example of polarization by class. The Republicans know that and will continue to work to appeal to poor, rural, undereducated white voters. They have the numbers to keep the Republicans in power for another 4-8 years.
Democrats have become worthless STINKING yellow belly COWARDS who NEVER fight back when attacked by the damn republican bully bastards abd they FAIL to rally their base progressive voters to come out in large numbers to vote FOR their candidates and Allow SCUM BAG republican bully bastards to get away with holding HUGE RALLIES aimed at getting the HATE GROUP people to come out and vote in HUGE NUMBERS to vote for the DANN Republican!
What happened yesterday in the NORTH CAROLINA special election is a harbinger of more bad things in store for the COWARDLY "Democrats"
What that means is that in Novemver of 2020 the only things the COWARDLY "Democrats" will win is MORE STABS IN THE FACE and kicks in the crotch from the damn republican BULLY BASTARDS!
Well, I'm not impressed by the result. The 2017 Democratic margin in special elections averaged 16 points, while McCready beat the partisan level by about 10 points, and did quite a bit less well in the rural areas near Charlotte than he did in 2018. Obviously the Democrats need more than a special election to get them to the polls, but Republicans seemingly need no such motivation. It seems to me what you mainly see in NC 09 is an enthusiasm slippage among Democrats - and why could Barack Obama not be brought in to counteract Trump's rally? Where's the national leadership to help?
I'm not sure Obama would have helped. McCready lost his edge in Robeson County, because their state senator Britt worked hard to get Bishop the votes he needed there. Bishop has also helped with state legislation for the Lumbee tribe that live there. In this case, it appears to be local and state versus national politics. The one thing I do agree with you and the other comments is that the local Democratic party needs to get their act together. They appear to have dropped the ball here.
The "Democrats" both in local areas and on the national stage need to be placed with REAL BACKBONE DEMOCRATS and they need to purge their house by driving the "Moderate" ones, who betray them by taking sides with the DAMN GOP on issues that have to do with women's reproductive rights and common sense gun control OUT of their party so that real progressive voters will come out in large numbers and vote for them on Election Day. As long as they keep on being COWARDLY I will not donate even one cent to them.
The only two organizations I give to are Planned Parenthood which DOES fight for women's to rights and the FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION which DOES fight to restore SEPARATION of religion abd government in this country!
You know more about the local politics than I do, and your reasoning sounds logical, so the only thing I would say is that my argument here is that the rural (flyover) voters claim Democrats don't care about people like them, so having Obama (or any of the current candidates) pay a visit to Robeson County might have helped counteract that feeling of neglect.
You are right. the FAILURE on the part of the COWARDLY "Democrats" to counteract TRUMP'S rallies that get HIS BASE of hate group people to come out and vote by having decent rallies of their own getting popular democrat politicians (such as former president Obama) to go down to North Carolina to rally the progressive voters to come out and vote democrat is what is causing the whole Democratic Party to be DESTROYED!
The 9th was gerrymandered to favor Republican candidates. The Republican won by a comfortable margin. Some say Trump helped in Cumberland County; there's really no way to tell how the vote would have gone down without his visit. The only thing I took away from this Special Election is that it's another example of polarization by class. The Republicans know that and will continue to work to appeal to poor, rural, undereducated white voters. They have the numbers to keep the Republicans in power for another 4-8 years.