What Do the Polls Say About a Blue Wave?

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What Do the Polls Say About a Blue Wave?
By Julie Kelly| November 1st, 2018

Since it’s now clear that Democrats may not only fail to take control of the U.S. Senate, they actually could lose seats, all eyes are focused on the battle for the House of Representatives.

The political fortunes for congressional Republican candidates are the reverse of those with which their Senate counterparts are blessed. In the Senate, Democrats are defending nearly two-dozen incumbent senators, many in states that Donald Trump won in 2016; if Republicans run the table, the GOP could get very close to a filibuster-proof Senate.

Conversely, 37 Republican congressmen are retiring this year, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Two popular Republican lawmakers face federal indictments, and another is under an ethics investigation. For Democrats, the court-ordered redistricting of Pennsylvania’s congressional map was manna from heaven, gifting them with at least five favorable new districts. Some pundits just one year ago were predicting the Democrats could pick off 50 seats from reeling Republicans.

But as polls trickle in just days before next week’s election, there’s no indication Democrats will come close to winning those 50 seats, let alone is there any certainty they will flip the 23 seats needed to reclaim the speaker’s gavel in January.

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My 16 term GOP House Representative has run a lousy campaign, and has advanced at least one horrifically stupid position. I expect he will be able to move on to lucrative lobbying, like Boehner, Ryan, Gowdy, Issa, etc.


FYI  the knockout IMO is his advancement of the position home sellers' should be able to refuse to sell to homsexuals.



Unlike so many that can see into the future, I expect he will lose. It seems like a huge mistake, or a planned political suicide.

(Fair Housing laws have been on the books, for decades)