DC: Due to a massive number of incumbent retirees and potentially toxic presidential politics, conventional wisdom suggests that the Republican Party will lose the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in 2018. With 38 house retirees many pundits are predicting a Republican collapse, but they fail to read between the lines. Twenty-one of these 38 retiring Republicans are in districts with a partisan voting index (PVI) of R+10, while only two are in districts with D+ PVI. Furthermore, four Democratic representatives in Republican leaning districts are retiring, further mitigating possible losses.
With the disproportionate number of retirees in safe Republican districts the Republican Party has an unprecedented opportunity. Whoever wins the Republican primaries in these districts will most likely win the general election. With these nearly guaranteed victories, the Republican Party can choose a slate of candidates that includes more females, Hispanics and younger politicians. If the Republicans enact such a strategy, it can be the death blow to the Democratic Party’s use of identity politics.
The Democratic leadership in the House has an average age of 72, while it is 48 for Republican leaders. more here
With the disproportionate number of retirees in safe Republican districts the Republican Party has an unprecedented opportunity.
We should be NOW within an unprecedented opportunity, and what has the GOP establishment done with it?!
“conventional wisdom suggests that the Republican Party” will surely blow it because that’s what they do.
And the NRCC and Ryan’s PAC are bankrolling progressive republicans, while Mitch McCONnell supports establishment progressive senators.
To many of the RINOs “republican” is just a title, not a standard of principle. They just “self-identify” as republican.
Republicans Are The Party Of Youth, Democrats Are…
the party of ancient failed radical Marxists and sexual misfits?
Conservatism is the new counterculture!
Well, the aren’t the party of wisdom or beauty. Perhaps their strategy is to outlive us all by getting a head start.
Republicans aren’t the Party of a Goddamned thing. Unfortunately the Republican banner is where Constitutional conservatives reside but the establishment Republicans give the Party a bad name. Establishment Republicans are whatever their Democrat masters want them to be, whenever they want them to be it.
I sure hope our voters get out there, a few democrat arrests would sure move the ball along>
Democrats are the party of MS-13, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, LGBTMOUSE, and every other tiny minority out there.The dumbocrats are practically writing the GOP commercials for them, with the garbage coming out of Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters. If the GOP doesn’t pick up at least 8 Senate seats and a handfull in the house, they need to disband as a political party, because they are worthless.
Demonrat: National Socialist, Inter-National Socialist, Fascist (Italian Socialist), Wilsonian Socialist, Rooseveltian Socialist, Chinese Communist (Socialist), Soviet Socialist, … hmm …, seems to be a recurring theme …
Basically, if you deny the existence of God, Hate America, Loathe Freedom and Liberty, desire (fulsomely) to imprison and/or murder anyone with whom you disagree, cannot abide the notion that people should earn their keep, and have a visceral repugnance to the very idea of an independent thought, you are a Demonrat. But if you want to kill your opponents more slowly and don’t have the courage to express your honest beliefs, you’re probably a RINO.
izlamo delenda est …