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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
I just watched a commercial from a democrat stating if elected he will end school shootings? I don't believe him.
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The reason any party runs on the "hate Incumbent" platform is because it works.
Obama came into office and was very popular right out the gate. That changed by the time the first midterm came around but Democrats were still talking about running this country for the next 20 years and how the Republicans were done. The party was broken. They had no leader etc. . . All the Republicans did that first two years of Obama's presidency was say "no" and filibuster everything. They had no plans and no ideas, and yet in the first midterm there was a red wave because "Hate Obama" worked and it got their voters out.
It might not work again, but hate is a pretty powerful motivator.
Democrats are likely betting a combination of hating Trump, gun control, net neutrality, and the Russia investigation will motivate their base and young voters. Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but let's not pretend like Republicans took back the House in 2010 because they had some grand agenda.