THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026
That's what the Cook Report says: We Blues! Our tribunes keep stressing the president's approval numbers. Pleasingly, those numbers just keep getting worse.
That said, the president isn't running for Congress this fall—and the Cook Political Report has just unveiled a discouraging assessment concerning the race for control of the House.
Did the GOP win this year's mid-census redistricting wars? Here's the start of Alex Griffing's report for Mediaite:
Cook Political Predicts GOP Took 12 House Seats From Dems With Trump’s Gerrymander Push
Dave Wasserman, the senior editor and elections analyst for The Cook Political Report, released a deep-dive assessment on Wednesday on the state of play for the House following the unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering by several states ahead of the midterms.
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Wasserman crunched the data and came up with the definitive number for how the gerrymandering wars, which spread to ten states in total from Florida to Utah to Ohio, impacted the House map overall...going into November.
At that point, Griffing's language gets a bit technical. You can examine his report for yourself, but it looks like the Cook Report says the redistricting wars most likely resulted in a significant improvement for Republican prospects.
In Wasserman's assessment, redistricting would seem to have cost the Democrats twelve seats. That leaves Democrats poised for a narrow win in the race for the House, as opposed to a larger projected win if redistricting in the various states hadn't occurred.
Obviously, that's a projection—an educated assessment. Also, it seems to us to be extremely bad news.
Whatever the facts of the matter might be, Dr. Fauci is now being demonized to produce a new talking point for the party which currently lacks them. The nuttier planks in the DSA platform are being put to use the same way.
“ Democrats poised for a narrow win in the race for the House”
ReplyDeleteAfter asking “ Did the GOP win the redistricting wars?”
Win = lose I guess. Is this 1984?
Please please please, say the GOP. Make sure the democratic candidates in those redrawn districts go around saying that Trump is mentally ill, but they surely pity him. It’s electoral GOLD!
ReplyDeleteAngry Bob: Republicans are deeply unpopular, Trump is a mess and he is ruining the GOP - I need to cope.
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ReplyDeleteUnless Safeguard American Voter Eligibility bill is passed, signed, an implemented, the election needs to be cancelled this year.
We don't need illegals electing the Congress. The rigged election disaster in 2020 was quite enough.
You’re a good, decent person.
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ReplyDelete"Whatever the facts of the matter might be, Dr. Fauci is now being demonized to produce a new talking point for the party which currently lacks them."
ReplyDeleteDemonized? Are you a total Dumbocrat, Bob? The evidence is clear, it's in the public domain: Dr. "Mengele" Fauci diary, his communications with his Mob, his public pronouncements.
On which planet presenting hard cold facts amounts to demonizing? Must be the infamous Dumbocrat planet. Is that where you are?
You’re a good decent person.
DeleteDumbocrat. Sick burn!
DeleteUnclear what Somerby's point is here. Is he gloating? He doesn't recommend any action for Dems. Gerrymandering is obviously unfair and it is no surprise if it works as described previously. So what is the purpose of this post? Is Somerby just trying to make Blue America feel bad? Does he think this means Dems are going to lose? What is his point?
ReplyDeleteApparently, right wing trolls do not get a lunch break.
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