See Real Time Polling of competitive House and Senate races across the country — some have been completed.
The article focuses on voters instead of candidates. Below is a quick summary.
The November election for Democratic or Republican control of the House of Representatives will come down to roughly 75 seats that are most competitive this fall.
We grouped the 75 districts into five main battlefields — not by what part of the country they’re in, but by the social and cultural characteristics they share.
In our analysis, we looked at how Democrats and Republicans will try to piece together a House majority from across these voting blocs. Democrats need to pick up 23 seats to take the House from Republicans.
These are booming areas in and around major cities, where growing Hispanic and Asian-American communities are fueling Democratic gains and President Trump is intensely unpopular.
These are suburbs full of Mitt Romney-style Republicans: educated and mostly white professionals who tend to dislike President Trump. Republican lawmakers are pleading with them not to defect to Democrats.
Republicans are defending once-reliably conservative seats where centrist Democrats, many of them veterans, are seeking upsets in distant suburbs like these.
Voters in these areas like President Trump more than they like Republicans. Democrats used to win here, and they’re trying to do so again with a message about health care and retirement security.
The Trump Cult is real. The Alt-Right ‘Republicans’ have a new generation of teen women. They’re 17-24 and they’re Trump Drunk on a constant dose of lies to the point where they’ve accepted that facts don’t matter.
Dem’s don’t become complacent. Prove that facts matter, the Constitution matters and American values matter.
There can only be a #BlueWave if Dem’s take back the House, Senate and state governorships. Anything short will result in America Under Trumpian Distress #Fascism #ClearAndPresentDanger
Cheyenne Martin, a 19-year-old student at Georgetown University, described being ridiculed by classmates for her desire to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency one day. But this weekend she was met with a standing ovation.
Kyasia Benjamin used stealth social media accounts to hide her love of President Trump from her family, she said, but the 22-year-old was now proudly sporting a bright red skirt patterned with Republican Party elephants.
Laci Williams, 20, said she felt so isolated as a conservative in Denver that she started a young women’s conservative magazine to connect with like-minded women across the country. But now, for four days at a Dallas airport hotel, Ms. Williams felt like she wasn’t the exception but the rule.
“We are left out of the national conversation,” Ms. Williams said of young conservative women. “And we’re sick and tired of being ignored.”
Welcome to Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit, an annual conference sponsored by the National Rifle Association and others that began in 2015 and has evolved into an ultra-Trumpian event complete with “lock her up” chants and vulgar T-shirts disparaging Hillary Clinton. The conference, which styles itself as an alternative to a liberal culture of feminism that many Republicans characterize as oppressive, attracted an estimated 1,000 young conservative women ages 17 to 24 for sessions like “How Political Correctness is Making Everyone Stupid” and “In the Age of Resist: Be Revolutionary.”
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, at one point suggested falsely that Stanford University had stopped teaching classes that include William Shakespeare because he was a white man. Any mention of CNN was booed as “fake news.”
They geeked out over the newest clothing from Ivanka Trump and quoted “takedowns” from conservative provocateurs and conference speakers.
More than any political ideology, the women at the summit appeared united by their criticism of recent social movements — such as the March for Our Lives against gun control, the #MeToo campaign to raise awareness for sexual assault and harassment, or the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality. In their view, there was nothing worse than being labeled racist, sexist or homophobic by “the left,” because liberal name-calling was worse than any sin that could precede it.
One 17-year-old wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat said she doubted the widely accepted statistic that one in four college women experience rape or attempted rape — but if it was true, the reason was because “we’re importing rape culture” through illegal immigration and homosexuality.
Some of the Conference Speakers:
The Women’s March, January 20, 2018.
Let us march on ballot boxes, march on ballot boxes until race-baiters disappear from the political arena.
Let us march on ballot boxes until the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs will be transformed into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens.
Let us march on ballot boxes until the Wallaces of our nation tremble away in silence.
Let us march on ballot boxes until we send to our city councils state legislatures, and the United States Congress, men who will not fear to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God.
Let us march on ballot boxes until brotherhood becomes more than a meaningless word in an opening prayer, but the order of the day on every legislative agenda.
Let us march on ballot boxes until all over Alabama God’s children will be able to walk the earth in decency and honor.
These words come from the speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the conclusion of the 1965 march to Montgomery, Alabama. The march brought national attention to the issue of racial discrimination in voting. The Voting Rights Act, a landmark piece of Civil Rights legislation, became law just five months later.
Photographs, broadsides, and other materials related to Dr. King’s legacy are now on view in the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library reading room.
Bob Adelman. Martin Luther King Jr. marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama alongside Ralph Abernathy, James Forman, Jesse Douglas, and John Lewis. March 1965. New-York Historical Society.
Stephen Somerstein. Martin Luther King, Jr. seen from rear, speaking to crowd of 25,000 in Montgomery, Alabama. March 1965. New-York Historical Society.
Just wanted to bring everyone back from that false missile launch warning and remind them of an even more important message. #WWIII #Peace
— Margot Paez @vansgirl12 - Jan 13, 2018
1. Doug Jones Wasn’t Hurt by Being a Progressive
2. Democrats Need to Fight for Voting Rights
3. A Good Campaign Can Turn a Loss into a Win
In doing the analysis for my last VICE piece, one thing I noticed is that the trend of young voters being more liberal was pretty consistent across states. Even in a deep-red place like Alabama, the young population leans Democratic. In Alabama, exit polling shows that individuals under 45 overwhelmingly supported Jones, while older voters went strongly for Moore.
5. Scandal Will Drag Down Republicans in 2018
6. The Resistance to Trump Is Real
Just as Trump and Bannon did with Roy Moore 💩 Just as GOP Donors did with Tax Cuts for the Rich and Corporations 💩 Just as Russia did with Trump 💩
The Democratic Party can lead the country in a new direction, but will it?
Millions of Americans who are politically engaged for the first time in their lives are crying out for a bold alternative to bigoted and destructive policies.
But Democrats can’t just be anti-Trump or move to the middle.
To be successful Democrats must address the forces that created Trump: The toxic combination of widening inequality and racism.
The richest one percent now own more than the bottom 90 percent. Corporations and the rich are running our politics.
The resulting economic stresses have made many people vulnerable to Trump’s politics of hate and bigotry.
If Democrats stand for one thing, it must be overcoming this unprecedented economic imbalance and creating a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition of the bottom 90 percent, to take back our economy and politics.
This requires, at the least:
1. Public investments in world-class schools and infrastructure for all.
2. Free public universities and first-class technical training for all;
3. Single-payer Medicare-for-All;
4. Higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for this;
5. Using antitrust to break up powerful monopolies on Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Agriculture.
6. Getting big money out of our politics.
Together, these steps form an agenda to reclaim our economy and democracy for all. Will Democrats lead the way?
Can Democrats find 21st century candidates?
More importantly, will those who didn’t vote in 2016 vote? Millennials? Complacent Democrats?
Will I want to vote by then? This is my 57th Birthday. Who knows? U can bet that the Liberal vote won’t be enough… #2018 (at Albion, Michigan)
There better be 482 (I) candidates running for office too.
The Science Denial section of history books and Trump’s presidential library #TrumpHypocrisy #TrumpScienceDenier
Now, vote. Bring your friends. Bring your family. Vote in the Town council elections in your community. Vote for county board. Put coalitions of progressives together to cooperate on elections. Beat the machine in the one place it basically can’t win: vote.
People’s hearts are in the right place but their money is not
In fact, what the campaigns describe would be illegal no matter what the FCC does. The Telecommunications Act explicitly prohibits the sharing of “individually identifiable” customer information except under very specific circumstances. It’s much more permissive when it comes to “aggregate” customer information, which is where things get squishier and the FCC rules become more important.
We could argue all day about whether a targeted ad is individually identifiable or not, but if you’re paying Verizon to find out which sites Paul Ryan visited last month, that’s pretty clearly individual information, and pretty clearly illegal to sell. If you want to get really clever, the Wiretap Act also makes it illegal to divulge the contents of electronic communications without the parties’ consent, which arguably includes browsing history.
In the meantime, the two biggest campaigns have collectively raised nearly $140,000 for the purchase of web histories that will never go up for sale. It’s anyone’s guess where the money will end up.
This GoFundMe will pay to purchase the data of Donald Trump and every Congressperson who voted for SJR34, and to make it publicly available.
People who are going to lose their health care MUST vote in 2018. Stop Trump Draconianism
#Unite #Resist #TakeAction #Vote2018
Let’s do this!
