Good comments and article. Read poster Teresa McCarthy below,, a researcher on population numbers related to health. Moderate Senators voting yesterday are free today and tomorrow to talk to the House Reps. who are now in their next round of voting.
VOTERS TRUMP THE PRESIDENT. Voter's declining opinions will matter more than the President's threat to have Reps primaried. The "multiplier effects" are showing up in the economy, now through October, three big causes--the gov. layoffs, the tariff damage, and immigrants no longer adding to the economy. People will not be able to sell their houses to find a job elsewhere, when too many are on the market "all at once". That will maybe take the longest to show up in the economy. Milder things are now hitting. One of the Job numbers came out today showed a loss when a rise was expected. OOPS. Wish it wasn't so.
REPS WORRIED. Rest assured, House Reps are VERY AWARE, their campaign managers smart enough NOT to get their poll and economy numbers from Fox News,
(1) The Pres poll numbers are dropping. (Best polls rate things 1 to 5, with 3 neutral. There have been at least three national polls showing pres T's big drop on ALMOST EVERYTHING, not like the prior and less useful polls with just two choices, yes or no, approve or not. He was elected by only 49.5 of voters, NOT a mandate, and has well-below 49.7% giving him the best two grades on five point scales. 40% does not cut it in politics. )
(2) There are signs voters willing to call themselves strongly Republican, when interviewed, has been dropping, with "independent" preferred.
Moderates, independents and swing voters have been disenfranchised by gerrymandering that splits them into tiny bits, outvoted by whatever rigid sets with which they are paired. Pres T wants the Repub-favoring gerrymandering to be re-done now, I think, as he already sees things shifting. Normally, the states wait for the next Census, to be sure new districts are equal in population, multiple lines doing that, which leaves leeway to disenfranchise sets by pairing them with people who will outvote them on everything.
He wants go after already heavily gerrymandered Texas, maybe Ohio, make them worse. Analysts say there are ways that can backfire.
Good comments and article. Read poster Teresa McCarthy below,, a researcher on population numbers related to health. Moderate Senators voting yesterday are free today and tomorrow to talk to the House Reps. who are now in their next round of voting.
VOTERS TRUMP THE PRESIDENT. Voter's declining opinions will matter more than the President's threat to have Reps primaried. The "multiplier effects" are showing up in the economy, now through October, three big causes--the gov. layoffs, the tariff damage, and immigrants no longer adding to the economy. People will not be able to sell their houses to find a job elsewhere, when too many are on the market "all at once". That will maybe take the longest to show up in the economy. Milder things are now hitting. One of the Job numbers came out today showed a loss when a rise was expected. OOPS. Wish it wasn't so.
REPS WORRIED. Rest assured, House Reps are VERY AWARE, their campaign managers smart enough NOT to get their poll and economy numbers from Fox News,
(1) The Pres poll numbers are dropping. (Best polls rate things 1 to 5, with 3 neutral. There have been at least three national polls showing pres T's big drop on ALMOST EVERYTHING, not like the prior and less useful polls with just two choices, yes or no, approve or not. He was elected by only 49.5 of voters, NOT a mandate, and has well-below 49.7% giving him the best two grades on five point scales. 40% does not cut it in politics. )
(2) There are signs voters willing to call themselves strongly Republican, when interviewed, has been dropping, with "independent" preferred.
Moderates, independents and swing voters have been disenfranchised by gerrymandering that splits them into tiny bits, outvoted by whatever rigid sets with which they are paired. Pres T wants the Repub-favoring gerrymandering to be re-done now, I think, as he already sees things shifting. Normally, the states wait for the next Census, to be sure new districts are equal in population, multiple lines doing that, which leaves leeway to disenfranchise sets by pairing them with people who will outvote them on everything.
He wants go after already heavily gerrymandered Texas, maybe Ohio, make them worse. Analysts say there are ways that can backfire.