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A contest to see who is the tallest midget?
All jokes aside

The DemonRats have their "Super Delegates" to thwart the will of their constitutes.

The RINOs simply become turncoats, once elected. And there is a proven mechanism to make this happen in real-time:

I just heard an interview with a freshman CongressCritter.
He said the first cocktail party he was invited to, a gorgeous young thing hung all over him all night. Of coarse the expected happened.

What he didn't see coming was that she was a honeypot.
All caught on camera.
He's an owned man now.
He votes the way he is told, or he can walk away.

He said this happens to anyone not savvy enough to sense a trap is being set.

And the Demoncrat media is hoping that you are as bad at statistics as they are. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Dobrian,
In your DemonRat highlight list, you missed a couple:
> Creation of the Federal Income tax (1913)
> Creation of the FED (1913)
> The New Deal (1933)
> Welfare (1965)
> That shitshow known as Vietnam.
> "Super Delegates": the very antithesis of "Democracy"
> Dodd-Frank
> The Climate Scam (in all it's incarnations)
> The 1873 incorporation of the Republic (the circumvention the Constitution)
> The Illegal Alien Invasion.
> Trillions in Fraud: From Minnesota, to Maine, California, New York.. enough fraud to eliminate our entire national debt!

At the State of the Union" Trump called upon all of Congress to literally make a stand: is their priority legal American citizens? Only Republicans stood, not one Rat, not one.
In a recent interview, I witnessed a Rat Congress Critter say outlaid, their parties TOP PRIORITY is illegal alien voters.

Even this amended list of shame is far from complete.

The "red wave" failed due to the overturning of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court. It motivated the left and moderate independents to keep the dems in power.

I laugh when I hear the left complaining about the gas prices. They were higher under Obama and Biden. Also, I remember that the left wanted high gas prices so the people wouldn't drive as much and take public transport and find alternatives (EVs).

Lot of good points, however this “Biden's party then lost only 9 House seats in the 2022 midterms, dramatically underperforming the predicted "red wave."
Fake election results as an example of voters response to oil prices or anything else is not convincing to me. In a few mo.s gas at the pump will be significantly lower than today and won’t be a factor in the mid-terms, imo.

ThanQ FFA, Of course the fake allies are opposed to Trump taking full control of the oil markets. The city of London lost the insurance control. They used terrorism to cause high insurance premiums resulting in 50 years of artificial high energy prices.
3 top 8 energy producers oil has been kept off the mrkt. Venezuela,Iran and Russian oil adding to the supply demand equation will result in lower prices.
Another win for US is NATO and the UN are on life support. Get ready to welcome to Greenland to our constitutional republic. Tired of winning yet?

Well, sure lots of heat, but no one wants the laundry connected to the engine room via steam. They get the heat with electricity.

Soap I can see, but with a nuclear reactor on board, I can't see where they'd have a problem with heat.

Thanks for the post FFA! Excellent points up and down the list.

Nicely done. Interestingly, you point out the "inflation tax" on gas price at the pump, which is NEVER mentioned in the MSM as a factor.

Excellent article. Thanks, FFA.

It is a possibility, for sure. But I think the more recent extremeness of Democrats has actually worked against it. I guess you could think of that as a silver lining to the shrieking autocrats on the Left; they've made being a Democrat or voting that way less acceptable - that disgust kicking in for them.

Now, I am not saying he should/shouldn't, but if Trump's speech was more refined and less hyperbolic and raw, we'd be in a very different world I think. Because despite the R next to his name, Trump (and Vance!) are 1980s-1990s Democrats by almost every policy position. So if you removed the disgust part of the anti-Trump side I'd suspect an easy 15, maybe up to a 20 point swing to the current Republican party.

I think decent issue polling shows it: 70+% on illegal immigration, voter ID, no-men in women's sports, don't be "sexual-first" in schools with children, 65+% agreeing with "no nukes for Iran," how the Republicans "fight" inflation, or countering China. And almost every one was a position the Dems agreed with back then (and for most positions Republicans, too).

Right there is the bulk of the public pissing contests. When you strip away the party affiliation, names, and the partisan framing the real support for the Left falls away significantly. Unfortunately there is no true Right Wing in politics these days. But if not for those disgust level disagreements with Democrats, by Democrats, I think a lot more would vote Democrat. Unless we had that true Right Wing, of course.

Thanks. On the evenly split that has nagged at me for a long time as well. I suspect there are two main factors:

1. It is still primarily seen as a binary choice, and there aren't any biological factors that might skew a binary distribution. Poll questions asking if your Red or Blue artificially shape the poll outcome.

2. I haven't investigated specifically for it yet, but I suspect a factor is the distribution of high-density vs low-density population distribution. It is clear that low-density strongly runs Republican while high-density does it for Democrats (which I find hilariously ironic).

3. Not everyone votes. The last "big" cycle was 2024 and it had only about 60% voting, so really we're not looking at everyone. My hunch is that those who don't are a mix of "I don't like either and am not going to play" and those (like myself and probably most of us here) who do not fit into either box at all. That removes them from the population which might otherwise change the split to something like a three way split. At an oversimplified math level, if 60% roughly distribute evenly, that is 30, 30, leaving 40 as "other." Personally, I think seeing it that way can really shift how one thinks about it.

4. Something that is a mix of earlier ones: the more "leave me alone" types are IME, not only less likely to play poll games, but less likely to register and vote. But with the Left going apoplectic and inevitably more authoritarian, it pushes them into taking a stand out of self defense if nothing else. I suspect this is behind a quiet and rarely reported shift in registered voter affiliation (for the states that still have it). Notably in solid blue states, red has been closing the gap there and in some exceeding blue.

5. The Democrats are really only unified on "we want more power." To your point of public opinion vs. politician position, consider Voter ID. It is an 80/20 issue. Even 70+% of Democrats favor/want it. But the Democratic "leadership" hates it. This overall phenomenon (I've often heard it expressed as "on every 80/20 issue the Democrats take the 20%") is probably reducing the voting of otherwise Democrat voters, thus skewing the numbers.

LOL...I'm close. I, literally, can't afford to work due to taxes.

It's a joke and an insult to anybody who understands basic math. They're playing to the prole shlub...like arguing about which chair to move first on the deck of the Titanic. It's a joke. We'll eventually default...But, not before trying to use the only method of payoff that's not political suicide for incumbents...inflation.

You nailed it. I had a pension check coming in. 10% was just removed by health premium. Who's to say that won't happen every year? Nobody. It will happen. It's easy money. Theft. Per longstanding Federal law they cannot alter/reduce a "defined benefit" pension.....except for this, apparently. They found the loophole and now they'll take it...

I'm very much appreciative of the effort you've spent to bring this information to the Gulch, TheRealBill.

We're supposed to stay rational over feelings here in the Gulch, but I have this nagging feeling there's more to the fact that the electorate is so evenly divided between the two parties. As in why so close to 50/50 and not say 60/40 or even 70/30? Individual issues, like illegal immigration, can have splits of 80/20 yet the party votes are still nearly 50/50.

Give 'em an orange and a loin cloth. Yaarrrh!

I wonder how much of the electorate figures it's coming to the time where the tools of production are thrown down in pure defeat and they go on the dole by voting D.

I just watched a video about the degradation of South Africa in the past 15 years. Atlas Shrugged on steroids. Although White people are outnumbered 10 to 1 they are still blamed for all the country's problems, not the socialist/communist government or the tribal habits of the populace. The Zimbabwe example obviously didn't take. I'm watching NYC for an American version taking shape.

The health insurance premiums for my wife and I have gone up over 60% since the blessing of Obummer-care. It is covered through her retirement check and is now over 50% of that! At the recent rate hikes over the past few years it won't be long until the premiums eat the whole check! Then what?!

Think it really just reduces soap and heat.

Yeah definitely the most debt in history. Interest payments alone are approaching twice the military budget. When you combine social spending with interest ("mandatory budget") you get 75% of the spend today. All that quibbling the Congress does every few months about the budget is arguing about the remaining 25%.

So- the Ozone technology reduces water usage?
I can see how that would be important, out on the middle of the ocean...
(insert icon of smiley face rolling his eyes in disgust...)

On the media lies and people believing them:
From Wizard's First Rule - "People believe a lie for one of two reasons: they fear it to be true or they want it to be true."

My corollary: Those that fear it to be true will try to disprove it; those that want it to be true will defend it.

And to Robert of Nero: "You voted for this" and yet you expect access to that lever of power - again with historical ignorance.

We're probably seeing the end of a once-great nation. There is no out for smart voters who want peace, freedom and prosperity. The "lesser of two evils" is starting to look like "to evils" on the ballot. That said, the midterms may end up being the biggest political bloodbath in my lifetime. Do we get open borders, undocumented violent sexual predators, and the most debt in human history? Or, do we get to fight wars for Israel until the last American is dead, the most debt in human history, and government-backed global pedophile rings running wild?

On more local levels....Notice how everything is backwards now? Homelessness is taking over the nation. Every quarter mile or so on busy roads there's somebody waving their arms around having an argument with the air. We don't remove the worst criminals from society, but eagerly push them back out to make more victims. Rather than kill Obamacare, we just hamstrung it, kept the corporate interests in it and recently saddled the working American with the biggest increase in premiums in the history of the western hemisphere. Absolutely nothing is going right in public/government education. After Musk uncovers unprecedented theft of tax revenues he's fired and nobody goes to jail. At this point...I'm shocked that Swalwell was attacked for raping those drunk female coworkers...political expediency I guess...

And, here I sit. Sending checks to the government that are close to my salary back when I stared my career.