Democrats enjoy a 10-point advantage over Republicans in congressional preference for the 2018 midterm elections, even as President Donald Trump's job approval rating has ticked up, the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
Fifty percent of registered voters say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 40 percent want a GOP-controlled one.
That double-digit lead — typically a sign of strong Democratic performance for the upcoming election — is up from the party's 6-point edge in January's NBC/WSJ poll, which was 49 percent to 43 percent, though the change is within the poll's margin of error.
That falls in line with other polling that shows the Democrats with a substantial lead going into the 2018 election.
But then there is this:
Meanwhile, the NBC/WSJ polls finds that Trump's approval rating stands at 43 percent among all Americans — up four points from January.
Fifty-three percent of adults say they disapprove of the president’s job, down from 57 percent two months ago.
The improvement for Trump comes from Republican respondents (who went from 78 percent approve in January to 84 percent this month), white men (52 percent to 59 percent) and independents (33 percent to 45 percent).
Man am I embarrassed to be a white man some days.
I am trying to work it out in my head exactly what Trump has done in the last month or so that could have improved his image even by four points.
Could it be his blatant attacks on our Justice Department?
The constant turnover in his White House?
Or was it the fact that he has definitely been outed as banging a porn star right after his wife gave birth to his last child, and his attempts to keep her quiet?
Yeah, I simply don't get it.
But who cares? Because once we get enough Democrats into office we can shut his ass down hard!
Hey Gryph are you going to do a post on this anti Semite jackass?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/politics/dc-council-member-apology-anti-semitic-comment/index.html
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DeleteDC council member apologizes for anti-Semitic comment
Saba Hamedy
By Saba Hamedy, CNN
Updated 7:49 AM ET, Mon March 19, 2018
Washington (CNN)A Washington, DC, council member apologized Sunday night after receiving backlash for comments he made in a video implying Washington's snowy March weather was controlled by Jewish financiers.
"I want to apologize to the Jewish Community and anyone I have offended," councilmember Trayon White Sr. wrote on Twitter and Instagram. "I did not intend to be anti-Semitic, and I see I should not have said that after learning from my colleagues."
In a video uploaded to his official Facebook page on Friday morning, White referenced the Rothschilds, a European Jewish banking family who have been linked to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for years.
"Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation," he says in the video, which was shot through windshield of a car driving through downtown Washington. "And DC keep talking about, 'We a resilient city.' And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.""
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-turned-facebook-megaphone-heres-republicans-will-game-midterms/
ReplyDelete"Man am I embarrassed to be a white man some days."
ReplyDeleteYeah, it is pretty obvious you have swallowed, or at least promote, the entire liberal talking point hook that everything is the fault of white guys lol. Try being a man for once.
You mean like a man who defies peer pressure to join in with the poor decision making of others like me, and tries to set a better example of what it means to be a white male?
DeleteDone.
Wait, huh, what? Is it a point or is it a hook? Man, you've gotten me so confused now!
Delete6:19AM He is a man. You're a troll.
Delete@6:19 AM If you don't like what you read here, go away, troll.
DeleteMost of it is the fault of white guys. They voted for Trump. It's hard to get stupider than that.
Delete@7:38AM HRC>
Deletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/19/clinton-said-she-meant-no-disrespect-by-comments-about-white-women-who-voted-for-trump/?utm_term=.747dd3f8291c
" some studies show that some white women do sometimes feel pressured to support their husband’s political ideology.
However, many women vote the same way as their husband not out of pressure but because they share political ideologies, economic philosophies, cultural values and other interests with their spouse — something Clinton’s critics accused her of leaving out of her initial remarks.
But the former secretary of state made an interesting point in her follow-up comments. She said some women doubted her ability to lead — and that may have been, in part, because of her gender.
Clinton’s gender was a major part of her campaign. She talked often about her desire to break the glass ceiling in presidential politics, and her inability to do so was written about widely after the election.
Clinton believes the reason may have been that she is sometimes less popular when speaking up for herself than when she is supporting and/or defending a man" "too early to say what could happen in 2020. But if Trump continues to lose support among white women, and the social movements focused on women’s issues continue to gain traction, perhaps the next general election will be the one where white women rally behind the liberal candidate — and their husbands’ votes may have little to do with it."
Gryphen you should just go and get that sex change and ink in some pigment because it is such a sin to be born a white man.
DeleteNo that's the coward's way out.
DeleteI would much rather stay the way I am and fight to change minds and influence decisions.
For the better of course.
Control freaks can't control themselves.
Delete84% of the Republicans in Congress are white.
Delete91% of the Republicans in Congress are men.
You were saying?
What are you saying 1:23?
DeleteIs there some kind of affirmative action law for Congress? White men aren't allowed to run for office if they choose?
my bet is he's rating improved because of the porn - unfortunately most men will see that has a plus (that and his bullying and trying to take the pension of a life time civil servant - wanna-be bullies idolize trump for that kind of deplorable behavior)
ReplyDeleteOT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/gops-rick-saccone-wont-concede-house-race-lost-already-running-different-district/
""This report shows the devastating impact the Trump administration's sabotage of the Affordable Care Act "
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-tax-cut-get-eaten-something-else/
Looks like President Obama is working to clean up Donald Trump’s international messes behind the scenes
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/obama-trump-international-messes/8875/
Lol. Palmer Report.
DeleteThe more he bullies and swaggers, the more the GOP(the party of the poor ignorant stupid and plutocrats) loves him. The poor ignorant stupid think he's just like them. Peawitted hayseeds cling to Faux et al. just like Trump. They think the oligarchical BS is news. 6:19 is an example of one of these non thinkers ... an ignoramus to the core.
ReplyDeleteOT?:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/as-putins-reelection-looms-his-hometown-of-st-petersburg-remembers-him-only-too-well?ref=home
"Sunday there was no question about that in anyone’s mind. Early returns showed him with more than 70 percent of the vote. But St. Petersburg had one of poorest turnouts in the country. The local intelligentsia here brushed away the thought, confident in their political apathy, feeling irritated even by the word “election,” as by some useless waste of time. Most people The Daily Beast interviewed were either planning to spoil their ballot or not vote at all."
There is something to this. I mean no matter how much bluster Don Young and Ted Stevens had people up here in Alaska just loved those two old coots.
ReplyDeleteI'd say Americans love these grouchy old men images. That's just that.
When old farts like Trump say what they think, it's seen as the American way. Despite the fact that Trump may have had dealings with the Russians to help himself.
BERN!
Delete'March 20 is International Day of Happiness'
ReplyDelete$O"how can governments change the way their citizens FEEL? Ultimately, changes cannot be made without good data. If governments are going to use well-being as a serious measure of success and progress, they need solid evidence of what lies behind people’s happiness and misery.
To make rational decisions about where to spend finite public funds, they need to know how potential policy changes will affect people’s well-being – and at what cost."
"Our research finds that mental illness explains more of the variation in happiness than physical illness. In the U.S., mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, are a major cause of suffering. Yet many can be treated, for example through evidence-based psychological therapy. Public health spending on mental illness is therefore not a luxury, but a necessity.
In fact, our calculations in the book suggest that mental health treatment usually turns out to be cost-neutral, given the large benefits that alleviating mental health problems brings in terms of lower physical healthcare costs, absenteeism and crime, as well as increased productivity.
Much of increasing happiness in adults begins with addressing the needs of children. "
https://theconversation.com/why-americans-are-unhappier-than-ever-and-how-to-fix-it-93466
Americans woke up from a bad political hang over.
DeleteWe dropped from 8th to 11th to 14th. Who knows how much farther we’ll drop every year we have to tolerate that orange foolius in the White House.
DeleteHow much longer do we tolerate this criminal family in the WH?
ReplyDeleteAP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-exclusive-kushner-cos-filed-130038435.html
Slumlord Jared Kushner Gave Rats To Your Nana
A great big investigative piece by the Associated Press reveals that while Jared Kushner was running the Kushner Companies, the New York developer regularly used fake documents and harassment to drive out tenants from rent-regulated apartments so the company could rent to new folks at a much higher rate and make all sorts of ill-gotten money.
Read more at
https://wonkette.com/631430/slumlord-jared-kushner-gave-rats-to-your-nana
Lied about having to rent controlled apartments so his property would appraise higher when he sold it. Then evicted tenants.
DeleteKushner learned a lot of his slime real estate tactics from Daddy-in-law dearest.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/03/more-cops-wont-make-schools-safer-but-heres-what-they-will-do/
ReplyDelete"Black students are 2.2 times more likely to be arrested than white students." BLM!
"All that kneeling ignores the real cause of soaring black homicides"
Deletehttps://nypost.com/2017/09/26/all-that-kneeling-ignores-the-real-cause-of-soaring-black-homicides/
Black man, Brian Golsby, the man convicted of murdering and raping Ohio State University student Reagan Tokes, began Friday.
Deletehttp://nbc4i.com/2018/03/16/brian-golsby-scheduled-to-be-sentenced-for-murder-rape-of-reagan-tokes/
White girls lives matter.
2017 Chicago torture incident
Delete"In January 2017, a mentally disabled white man in Chicago, Illinois, was filmed being physically and verbally abused by four black individuals. The incident was livestreamed on Facebook, making the incident a live streaming crime."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Chicago_torture_incident
White Lives Matter
1st nation's womens lives matter too>
Delete"In the United States, violence against indigenous women has reached unprecedented levels on tribal lands and in Alaska Native villages. More than 4 in 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence, and more than 1 in 2 have experienced sexual violence. Alaska Native women continue to suffer the highest rate of forcible sexual assault and have reported rates of domestic violence up to 10 times higher than in the rest of the United States.'
http://indianlaw.org/issue/ending-violence-against-native-women
4000 MIA in Canada.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/watch-white-nj-cop-brutalizes-screaming-handcuffed-man-brags/
DeleteHey 10:29, a good way to not have problems with police, don't break the law, lead the police on a car chase, then abandon the vehicle and run. Oh, and take care of those outstanding warrants. Oh, and actually have a license to drive.
Delete"Washington was charged with eluding an officer, resisting arrest, obstructing the administration of law, failure to observe a traffic signal, driving the wrong way down a one-way street, careless driving, failure to stop and being an unlicensed driver. He also had six outstanding warrants totaling $1,900."
10:46 AM, By all means, brutalize him while handcuffed then! Fuck you and start your own damned racist blog instead of flooding this one, stormfront.
DeleteSorry you don't like the truth 11:27.
DeleteA fruit vendor was robbed and brutally beaten while getting ready to sell in South Los Angeles Sunday morning, his stepson told KTLA.
DeleteReyes’ face was fractured, his jaw was broken, his throat was cut and several of his teeth were knocked out, his stepson said. He is expected to undergo surgery on Monday.
Krumer said the suspects are believed to be five to six African-American men and one African-American woman.
Mexican Lives Matter
http://ktla.com/2018/03/18/fruit-vendor-brutally-beaten-in-downtown-l-a-during-robbery-stepson-says/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/parkland-gun-violence-black-communities_us_5ab00986e4b0e862383a68f9
DeleteBLM
Bombings in Austin. Bristol or Dakota involved?
ReplyDeleteToo sophisticated for those dullards.
DeleteThey are dullards. If the bombings are from a group, they may know some of them.
DeleteI doubt that many boys or men in Austin would be messing with Bristol when she was the Mrs. MOH. Some ballsy RWNJ would be proud to do his wife. The same type that would hang with bad ass terrorists. But I don't see they would be told about bomb plots.
They would never believe their great friends would harm a flea.
Growing up in Texas, past decades. Bombs were a popular gang retaliation. I think they were called the Texas Mafia at some point. This is like an homage to the old timers. Today there is too much same old fussing about guns. This is refreshing for a terrorist. Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Not your ordinary 21st century American terrorist.
"I am trying to work it out in my head exactly what Trump has done in the last month or so that could have improved his image even by four points."
ReplyDeleteBully and name call. RWingers think that is a quality of a strong leader ... never mind he is an ignorant corrupt emotionally retarded man/child.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/duckworth-i-cant-technically-take-maternity-leave-407279
ReplyDelete'National Security Action'
“It was done out of fear of being accused of being soft on terrorism,” said former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who was one of the 22 Democrats in the chamber who voted against the war. “The completely phony notion that Saddam Hussein had been tied to al Qaeda had been thrown around the country, and frankly, people did not vote their conscience. They voted politics.”'
"“After 9/11, the consensus among party elites was that you had to be pro-war,” Matzzie, the MoveOn veteran, said. “That consensus is totally shattered. The consensus is now, for a Democrat, that you can’t be the super pro-war hawk or you’re in danger inside the Democratic Party.”"“The Trump agenda on foreign policy is so potentially cataclysmic and disastrous,” he said. “We’re all like Pavlov’s dogs ― he does one thing and distracts us. We take our eye off the ball on huge issues.” “I think Democrats are not afraid of using the military and certainly are supportive of [utilizing] the military,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Iraq War veteran. “But we first and foremost understand that the primary tool of our foreign policy should be diplomacy, not military expeditions.” There are also at least 25 veterans running for Congress as Democrats this year.
“That is a role that I and other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the Democratic Party can play,” Duckworth said. “To say, ’Wait a minute, let’s just be clear,′ questioning the motives of the administration and questioning the veracity of the data that they’re presenting, does not make us weak on defense. If anything it makes us the stronger champions for the Department of Defense and the military.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-foreign-policy-2020_us_5aa959dbe4b0f4aaa112ef0f
"A Trump cover-up could improve Democrats’ chances of retaking Congress — which would worsen the president’s legal woes
ReplyDeleteIt’s well understood that Trump would face a political backlash for firing Mueller. In and of itself, that probably wouldn’t be enough to hold him back from doing it — after all, he’s been willing and even eager to make controversial political moves in the past.
But the real risk for Trump is in what that political backlash could make likely — a Democratic takeover of one or both chambers of Congress in 2018."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17138948/trump-mueller-firing-russia
Maybe Trump's rating is up because he agreed to meet with Kim Jong Un--makes him seem to be ever so slightly more reasonable and less war happy.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if his ratings have much to do with thinking. I am leaning towards it is porn that has helped Trump's numbers.
DeleteOT?
ReplyDelete"If you don't believe in (God), that's fine with me," Unruh said. "I don't care, GO TO HELL. It's fine."
"Commissioner David Unruh made the remarks during a county staff meeting in reaction to a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group that fights for separation of church and state. The foundation accused the county of violating the Constitution by denying an atheist the chance to speak during the invocation period at commission meetings."
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article205591684.html?mc_cid=b7c3abd7a4&mc_eid=22979bf1c7#storylink=cpy
YES! "Stephen Hawking submitted a final scientific paper 2 weeks before he died -- and it could lead to the discovery of a parallel universe" "Hertog, a physics professor who coauthored the paper with Hawking, said the paper aimed “to transform the idea of a multiverse into a testable scientific framework.”"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.businessinsider.com.au/stephen-hawking-paper-from-just-before-he-died-could-find-new-universe-2018-3?r=US&IR=T&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=businessinsider.com.au&utm_term=68739&utm_content=2205159
TOO fucking BAD!
ReplyDelete"he publisher of 666Pence's book said,
"It's unfortunate that anyone would feel the need to ridicule an educational children's book and turn it into something controversial and partisan.""
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594916957/whats-up-pence-second-family-s-rabbit-makes-children-s-book-debut?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180319
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-olivers-gay-bunny-book-outsells-the-pences?ref=home
DeleteAnd there you have it. Proof positive that conservatives have no sense of humor, can’t take a joke and are in fact the true snowflakes when they are the butt of the joke.
Delete"HONOLULU (AP) — A former congressman from Hawaii said Monday he’s leaving the Republican Party because of President Donald Trump and the failure of fellow party members to stand up to him.
ReplyDeleteCharles Djou, who represented Honolulu in the U.S. House from 2010 to 2011, wrote in an opinion piece published in Civil Beat on Monday he’s disturbed that the Republican Party under Trump has become hostile to immigration.
Djou lamented Trump’s desire to launch a trade war, his treatment of veterans like Sen. John McCain, his belittling of lawmakers and his recitation of conspiracy theories.
“I can no longer stand with a Republican Party that is led by a man I firmly believe is taking the party of Lincoln in a direction I fundamentally disagree with, and a party that is unwilling to stand up to him,” Djou wrote.
Djou said he’s most disappointed by the failure of the GOP to clearly and consistently condemn Trump’s “childish behavior.”
“Sadly today, too many Republicans either applaud Trump’s tirades or greet them with silent acceptance,” Djou said. “This leads to an implicit ratification by the GOP of Trump’s undisciplined, uninformed and unfocused leadership as a core part of the Republican Party.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Djou served in the Honolulu City Council and in the state House. He is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2012 and 2014. He’s not currently seeking public office."TPM
"Charles Djou is a former U.S. congressman, Honolulu City Councilman and Hawaii state Representative who currently serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve."
http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/03/charles-djou-why-im-leaving-the-gop/
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594993409/supreme-court-delivers-blow-to-republicans-declines-to-take-up-pa-redistricting?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180319
ReplyDeleteNew York New York:"Nixon attacked the incumbent governor directly in her press release.
ReplyDelete“Cuomo’s time in office has been defined by a string of indictments for corruption, his failure to fix the New York City subway, and his support for a backroom deal which handed Republicans control of the state Senate, resulting in the failure of numerous pieces of progressive legislation,”-"Nixon also wrote an op-ed for LoHud.com about public school funding that compared Cuomo, a Democrat, to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, a Donald Trump nominee.
“[Cuomo] also wants to increase the number of privately-run charter schools in New York City by more than 50 percent,” Nixon wrote. “And he has been a loud proponent of private school tax credits, essentially a backdoor voucher system. These are policies we expect from Betsy DeVos, but from Andrew Cuomo?”"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cynthia-nixon-runs-new-york-governor_us_5a9ef285e4b0d4f5b66b1987