Today, as Trump continued his bombast and gaslighting on every front, the stock market had it's worst day in 8 months, the Dow plunging more than 800 points (3%). I also noticed today that gasoline-- at least in L.A.-- was at its highest price to consumers since about a year before Obama left office. Please take a look at that video above. At about the one minute mark on the CBS News report, Señor Trumpanzee says, "I think a lot of Democrats are going to be voting Republican on November 6th." You think anyone believes him? He probably doesn't even really think that himself-- but as with all his bullshit, he does think that if he repeats it enough times, it'll come true, just like Trump role model, former-Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels said it would.The Republican Party campaign strategy revealedTrump, McConnell, Ryan and all the little lemmings claim that the Kavanaugh vote sealed the deal for them. I guess they don't talk with many women. Yesterday afternoon, CNN released the latest SSRS poll. To start, the generic polling (of likely voters) was the best it's been for the Democrats and the worst it's been for the Republicans since November, 2012. 54% say they plan to vote for a Democrat and 41% say they plan to vote for a Republican-- up 2 for Team Blue and down 1 for Team Red since the Kavanaugh scandal.In terms of enthusiasm for the midterms, 55% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans say they are either "extremely enthusiastic" or "very enthusiastic" about voting. 15% of Democrats and 20% of Republicans are not enthusiastic. Replies to another notable question-- 38% of likely votes think the country will be better off if the Democrats win control of Congress while just 32% think the country will be better off if the GOP maintains control. 27% said it makes no difference. This morning, Politico had some bad news for Trump and his team. A new Morning Consult poll doesn't just show that voters disapprove of his job performance 56-41% and that the voters want Democrats to control Congress-- 48-38%-- but that they disapprove of him and his Republican enablers after that whole Kavanaugh scandal played out.
And following the GOP-led effort to push through his nomination, enthusiasm among Democratic voters has surged. More than 3 in 4 Democrats (77 percent) say they are “very motivated” to turn out and vote in the midterms-- more than the 68 percent of Republicans who say they’re “very motivated.”...[T]he Politico/Morning Consult poll suggests that Republicans’ decision to confirm Kavanaugh lacks broad support and has animated Democrats with only four weeks to go until President Donald Trump’s first midterm election....Independent voters are far less supportive of the decision to confirm Kavanaugh: 47 percent say the Senate erred in confirming him, while 34 percent say it made the right decision....The poll also shows a spike in voter enthusiasm-- particularly among Democrats.“Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation battle appears to be a significant motivator, as voter enthusiasm for the upcoming midterms has hit its highest point since Morning Consult and Politico began tracking the issue,” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president. “In this week’s poll, 70 percent of voters say they are very motivated to vote-- including 77 percent of Democrats, 68 percent of Republicans, and 60 percent of independents. One month ago, 64 percent said they were very motivated-- including 67 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of Republicans, and 55 percent of independents.”...While Republicans have cited an increase in excitement among their voters during the Kavanaugh fight-- and some polls last week indicated that the GOP had closed the enthusiasm gap-- both the Politico/Morning Consult poll and a CNN/SSRS survey conducted over the past weekend and released Tuesday show Democrats more animated than Republicans.
There's another way to look at this-- and Barnes and Noble just has. Look at this map:Books about politics are selling like hotcakes-- a nice fat 57% boost over a year ago. But, generally, in the states that voted for Trump people bought books that were positive towards him and in states that went for Hillary, people bought anti-Trump books. "The top three sellers so far in 2018," reports CNBC, "are widely viewed as taking a more negative view of Trump and his White House. They include former FBI Director James Comey's memoir, A Higher Loyalty, and the hotly debated tell-all Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff. The number-one bestseller, Fear: Trump in the White House by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, sold more than one copy per second on its release day, Barnes & Noble said. It was the fastest-selling book, overall, for Barnes and Noble in over three years."So what did the brain-washed dummies in the backward parts of the South buy? A good example is the one written by Fox New's insane right-wing propagandist, Gregg Jarrett, some garbage collection called The Russia Hoax that was popular in the Old Confederacy and in other states with large pockets of low-information Trump supporters and dumbbells.
