{"id":14444,"date":"2018-03-09T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2018-03-09T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:19:11","slug":"republicans-should-be-terrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/03\/09\/republicans-should-be-terrified\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans should be terrified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In this world of hyper-partisan news <em> vs<\/em>. &#8220;fake news&#8221;, it is easy to become over confident and replace any critical thinking skills with &#8220;feelz&#8221; and assume political outcomes based on little more than faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In that vein a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/opinion\/opinion-columns\/victor-joecks\/state-of-the-races-tarkanian-in-trouble-and-4-more-thoughts-on-2018-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fair warning<\/a> regarding over confidence to Republicans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Too many Republican voters are overly optimistic about November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If Hillary Clinton were president, Heller and Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt, running for governor, would be shoo-ins. Republicans \u2014 angry and scared about the future \u2014 would turn out in droves. That\u2019s what happened in 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If you\u2019re a Republican, remember that feeling \u2014 and realize that Democrats are having those same feelings, only in reverse. There\u2019s a real chance November sees a Democratic tidal wave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This isn&#8217;t to say that anything that happens tin November is set in stone, but only that\u00a0 perhaps Republicans should be worried that the Democrats have demonstrated in both special and regular general elections demonstrated an ability to organize, coordinate, and turn-out far beyond what Republicans have demonstrated in actual elections.\u00a0 That polls mostly show that the Democrats are far more likely to turn out and vote should just hammer home that the inverse of the common wisdom of the past few decades (or more) is more than just &#8220;fake news&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6982\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ballot-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ballot-box.jpg 450w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ballot-box-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Assume nothing in politics.\u00a0 Nothing.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Parade of Fans for Houston\u2019s Funeral\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NEWARK - The guest list and parade of limousines with celebrities emerging from them seemed more suited to a red carpet event in Hollywood or New York than than a gritty stretch of Sussex Avenue near the former site of the James M. 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