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SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

ARE THE LIBS LOSING?  On the dullest news weekend of the year, we bring you an exciting new poll suggesting that liberalism is in decline.  We stress, as we always do, that this is just one poll, a snapshot in time, and may or may not be accurate.  But it's fun, and it's always delightful to be told that we're winning.  From the New York Post: 

With the fall midterm elections less than three months away, fewer voters are identifying as liberals, according to a new survey.

A Morning Consult poll released Thursday found that just 27% of Americans self-identify as “very liberal,” “liberal” or “somewhat liberal,” down from 34% who chose one of those descriptors in 2017.

Meanwhile, the number of voters identifying as “moderate” or saying they “don’t know” has jumped by four percentage points each — 24% of voters said they were moderate and 3% said they didn’t know in 2017, while 28% and 7% gave those answers in 2022.
Fewer voters are identifying themselves as liberal, according to a Morning Consult poll.

The percentage of self-identifying conservative voters has only risen slightly, from 38% to 39% over the last five years.

Within the parties themselves, a shift to and from extremes has also been visible.

The recent survey — which was conducted among 750,158 registered voters — found that the number of Democrats identifying as liberal has dropped from 60% to 55% over the past five years, while Republicans identifying as conservative has jumped from 70% to 77%.
In general, minority voters have been leaning further away from left-leaning extremes, with only 42% of Democratic black voters saying they identify as liberal, compared to 52% who said the same in 2017. A similar decrease was seen among Democratic Hispanic voters, with 61% identifying as liberal in 2017 and 52% saying the same this year.

While the percentage of moderates among black and Hispanic voters has risen in both parties, an overwhelming number have leaned conservative over the past five years.

The poll found that 66% of Republican Hispanic voters identify as conservative, up from 48% in 2017, while 58% of black GOP voters hold the same political view, up from 37% five years ago.

Fewer black voters identify as liberal or very liberal, according to a Morning Consult poll.

The survey was released as Republicans predict a “red wave” in the November midterms that will allow them to take back the majority in the House and Senate.

However, a Politico-Morning Consult poll released earlier this week found that Democrats currently lead Republicans by four percentage points on the generic congressional ballot.
The same poll found that voters trusted Republicans more to handle issues like the economy, jobs, immigration and national security. Democrats were more trusted on issues related to health care, climate change, education and voting rights.

COMMENT:  Not bad.  If this is all true, Republicans should be doing well.  However, remember that the Republican Party works hard to lose elections. I guess it's their version of the work ethic.  The formal campaign starts Tuesday, the day after Labor Day.  The conservatives have two months to run a campaign that will take back both houses of Congress.  Discontent with the president is high, but he's not on the ballot this year.

We've said it before:  The GOP must put forward a program.  "This is the problem.  This is what we'll do about it."  Right now the Republicans are seen as a negative party.  We know what they're against.  They're against the Biden administration and the overall cultural drift of the country.  They're grim.  Americans love optimism and a plan going forward.  The optimistic leaders are usually the winning leaders.  Recall Ronald Reagan telling us that it's morning in America.  That's what we need now.  Republicans, lay out the future.  You'll do well.

September 3, 2022       Permalink 

SEPTEMBER 2,  2022

Today, September 2nd, marks the 77th anniversary of the formal end of World War II - the signing in 1945 of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 

Who would have thought, these 77 years later, that we'd have a ground war in Europe and the strong chance of military action in the western Pacific, this time with Japan on our side, and China as the enemy?  History doesn't repeat itself, but the psychology of history certainly does.

The youngest American veteran of World War II will this year be 94, having been born in 1928.  They are almost all gone, that greatest generation, and we miss them.

SO SORRY, SO SORRY:  President Biden, taking a well-deserved beating for his absurd speech about the national soul, is now backtracking.   I never said it, I never said it.  Did you actually hear me say it?  It was someone else.  The president as Jackie Mason.

Yikes.  From Daily Mail: 

President Joe Biden walked back his attacks on Donald Trump's MAGA supporters, saying on Friday he doesn't consider 'any Trump supporter a threat to the country.'

'I don't consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country,' the president said at the White House.

It was a contrast to his remarks on Thursday night when, in a primetime address on the threat to democracy, he said Trump and his supporters were a threat to the republic.

Republicans slammed Biden's speech as divisive while Trump said Biden was 'insane.'

Biden toned down his tough talk on Friday, defending supporters of the former president. In response to a question after an event on federal manufacturing grants, Biden said Trump supporters weren't voting for violence. 

He said the 74 million people who voted for Trump 'weren't voting for attacking the capital. They weren't voting for overruling the election. They were going for a philosophy he put forward.' 

He did condemn the Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol in the January 6th insurrection and those who attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.

'I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it's used, refuses to acknowledge an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which we rule and count votes, that is a threat to democracy. Democracy. Everything we stand for, everything we stand for rests on the platform of democracy,' he said.

In his speech on Thursday night, Biden gave a notably different message.

He said Trump is a 'threat to the country' in remarks that contained his harshest rhetoric to date about his predecessor in the Oval Office and the MAGA movement.

'Equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,' Biden declared at the top of his remarks before Philadelphia's Independence Hall.

He called out Trump by name, slamming the former president for his false claim the 2020 election was stolen and berating those who support Trump.

'Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,' Biden said to great applause from his supporters.

COMMENT:   It might be wise for Mr. Biden to take another one of his famous vacations.  I suggest three to four months.  Microphones and Microsoft Word would be banned.  He would get a cable TV tuned only to the Disney channel.  Kamala will visit and bring cookies.

It's the humane thing to do.

September 2, 2022       Permalink