On today’s BradCast: Will Hillary Clinton’s apparent lead in national polling and turnout to date translate into a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate? Poll watchers and analysts, at least Democratic leaning ones, seem to think so. For now. But just barely. [Audio link for show posted below.]
More early voting numbers in several states continue to suggest a potentially banner year for Democrats. In addition to those new indicators today, Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers continue to rise, even as Donald Trump argued over the weekend that all the polls are “phony”, not to be believed, and are meant to do little more than suppress the vote. (Though someone may want to let his own campaign manager know about that.)
But, will the hints of success for the Clinton campaign translate into Democrats taking back control of the U.S. Senate? David Jarman, editor of Daily Kos Elections, joins me to explain what the polls currently suggest about the likelihood of a Senate majority for Dems, the races in 9 states that he believes will determine that balance and, specifically, the 3 states he believes will ultimately be the tipping points for control of the upper chamber of Congress over the next two years.
While Daily Kos is a website meant to support Democrats, Jarman explains the roll of the analysts at Daily Kos Elections: “We’re sort of the quantitative side of Daily Kos, but we also do more qualitative analysis of where we feel the chances are in the Senate and the House, looking at it race by race, doing the sort of old-fashioned scouting approach of ‘this is a toss-up, this is lean-Democratic’, that kind of thing. We also compile a lot of the data that eludes other people, about where the ad dollars are going, what the topics of ads are, every poll, we collect those in our daily digest.”
Jarman and I also discuss, among other things, how and if things like voter suppression are included in his predictions; how large a majority Democrats would need in order to be able to bypass some of the more conservative/corporatist members of its caucus; whether Democrats could also retake a majority in the U.S. House, and some serious havoc that may occur for House Speaker Ryan even in the likelihood that they don’t; and, also, some of the gubernatorial races that may end up going “blue” this year as well.
Finally, Bernie Sanders responds to Wikileaks’ release of emails from Clinton staffers painting him in a less than favorable light, and Donald Trump says that he has plans to rethink freedom of the press, as defined by the Constitution’s First Amendment, should he become the next President.
Report of vote-switching machine in NC on Democratic Underground:
(note: 1st “h” of url has been removed)
ttp://www.democraticunderground.com/12512540542
[Just a minor correction in terminology]….there have been some slight changes at the DNC and the RNC implemented by management (primarily during down time, overnight) although you will be pleased to note that all building signage and the familiar front receptionists have been retained, per customer satisfaction….the formerly Republican Party will now be operating as the Nazi Party going forward….the formerly Democratic Party will now be operating as the Republican Party going forward….Thank you for your patience, and please excuse the dust…
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
“• Woody Allen, “My Speech To The Graduates”
…………. JILL STEIN 2016 ………….
…………. VOTE GREEN …………….
We still have a choice until they convince us we DON’T!!!
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@ #2 Everybody sing along!
In all human endeavor, it is much easier to understand actions once the motivation underlying those actions is revealed….or as the maxim goes, pay attention to what people do, not what they say….in this way, everything becomes clear as day…