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My county and a neighboring county run about 3-to-1 Democrat in registration but Republicans won virtually every seat where they had a candidate and carried the county for the statewides even if the governor lost. In the neighboring county a long-time Democrat state senator was taken out by a Republican lady candidate with no previous political experience.
The latest Gallup on such matters has 42% registered as "independents", most affecting the registration of pubbies. And yet with the 3-1 registered pos the pubbies win. That tells us that while pubbies are moving to independent registration, they're still voting pubbie.
I've been independent for decades. I ALWAYS vote for the pubbie. But I'm not voting "pubbie" - I'm voting against the pos. I think that is a widespread phenomenon. The midterms certainly isn't a pubbie "wave" or anything that could be confused as a wave. Hopefully (but doubtful) the pubbie "brain trust" recognizes that. There is a mandate - "destroy the pos". If they look really closely they might find clues.
Gallup runs an annual poll on the political landscape. It runs 40% conservative / <20% liberal / rest independent. The numbers break the same among the independents. That says that >50% of the respondents identify themselves as conservative. Therin lies the explanation - not party affiliation of voter registrants. And that is among the reasons that the pos is so desperate to get the illegals "legal". They don't have the numbers.
2008 was about "anything anti-Booooosch". And we got a carney man. 2012 was a wholesale theft and we "reelected" the carney man. 2010 and 2014 were the conservative backlashes.
The pubbies could win every election until the end of time if they'd stick to "Contract with America" messages, and deliver the goods. 53% of the electorate is standing there listening for the message. Energize dey *****.