The Senate, where the GOP holds 53 seats, remains a toss-up, the conservative outlet says
For the first time this year, Fox News is projecting that Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.
In its latest power rankings Tuesday, the conservative outlet forecast that Democrats are favored to capture 219 seats — one more than the 218 needed for a majority. Republicans were favored in 198 races, while 18 contests remained toss-ups.
“The House is likely out of reach for the GOP this year,” according to the Fox News analysis. “The Democratic Party has enjoyed a lead in the House all year. Now, as another 20 races shift leftward, this forecast sees the Democrats taking control.”
That will engage their population to vote and put the ‘left’ at ease, maybe not to vote.
What they say doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is for us to vote.
Democrats trailing in the polls = give up chance of flipping seat and don’t vote
Democrats doing well in polls = don’t bother to vote it’s in the bag
Are the only good poll numbers nail biting 50/50?
There are no good poll numbers until after the race has finished
Fuck poll numbers. I’ve marked every political and polling message I’ve received as spam. They can find out my vote when I cast it. Go vote people, ignore polls.
was about to say almost the exact same thing.
Regardless of whatever they say. Don’t get lazy. Don’t get complacent. Get off your ass and go vote, no matter what it takes
The attempt of voter mobilisation I assume?
Yup
Yes, I’m still voting regardless. I don’t believe anything until I see it. And we gotta do it again two years from now.
Maybe it’s because I’m autistic and think differently, I’m legitimately confused when people take news that they have a good chance of winning as telling them not to vote. If anything, shouldn’t it be taken as encouraging you to vote? The opposite is also taken as discouraging people from voting. Are people just that defeatist? You have no chance of winning, you don’t bother voting, you have a good chance of winning, you don’t bother voting
The goal is to lull people into a false sense of security. Voting isn’t necessarily easy for every person legally entitled to vote. You’re supposed to get time off of work, sure, but the actual reality of that especially for shift-laborers, or parents with young children who can’t stand in line for an hour with them, or people who live in remote locations with few voting places can be quite different.
If they keep hearing that their side is likely to win and it’s going to be a pain in the ass for them to actually vote anyway, then they’re more likely to skip the hassle thinking they have the victory in the bag.
Additionally, hearing “the opposition is probably going to win” does a lot to mobilize the maga side to get off their asses and vote, even if trumpster’s approval rating has dropped to pretty much just dedicated magats.
I’m convinced that 99.95% of the time, polls exist and are publicized primarily to impact the outcome and NOT to provide clear or unbiased information.
But don’t people understand that the victory being promised is contigent on them voting? I was motivated to vote liberal precisely because I was told they could win, otherwise I would have voted NDP feeling like it was in vain because conservatives were surely going to win
People were googling “can I change my vote” enough to show up in the data after last election. The average person is stupid as fuck.
No one told you to do otherwise.
We gotta ignore the media because they are just the voices of a single rich asshole family that owns most of it. They want to prevent people from voting.
I don’t believe it.
These same stories come out every election cycle, especially from right-wing news sources. “The left are going to take the senate” “The dems are going to have a landslide victory”
It’s propaganda with two goals:
- to fire up their base and encourage them to vote against the enemy that is somehow lesser, but also a threat.
- To create placidity in Democrat voters. If it’s in the bag, then I don’t have to skip out on a day of minimum wage work to cast my vote. The landslide will sort it out.
Hit the nail on the head. Same reason I keep seeing polls about how all these places are going to vote blue. Their trying everything they can to keep blue voters at home and or invalidate their mail in votes, don’t be fooled go out and vote!!
I don’t believe anything Fox news reports. People still need to vote.
The writing’s on the wall and Donald’s starting to lay the groundwork for an “emergency.” He just sued California alleging non-citizen voting. His DHS claimed 16,000 non-citizen votors in Nevada, trimmed the list to 185, and then when Nevada checked all 185 on the list, it went to 0.
I hope gas goes up to ten dollars a gallon and Peter Theil somehow has a change of heart and becomes like Jesus and donates all his money to ending world hunger and making sure that tech companies behave ethically and transparently
I also hope they make another video game like deadly creatures where you can play a tarantula who acts like a cowboy sorta
Also dear God please make sure that Republicans fuck up all their shit like they already be doin’ so intensely right now.
Amen.
Once they take the house and the senate, they can stop all that negative legislation that’s been passing, like…
uhhh…
ummmm…
…don’t get me wrong… everyone should absolutely still vote, but even a massive victory is going to fix fuck all, and we should all be prepared for that.
Winning the house and senate would curb the Trump admin considerably. The admin will be playing defense rather than offense and democrats can issue subpoenas. Are we surely going to stop contributing to the Palestinian genocide? Probably not, but there’s a chance the progressive wing could withhold support for key votes and demand concessions — in much the same way the ultra conservative wing of the Republican Party prevented them from passing some of their agenda.
I just doubt the democrats have the political will to make any real moves other than some symbolic blocks. I think the Dems run a cleaner show but they are functionally very similar to the Republicans. What does their platform even stand for these days?
Capitalism and warhawking.
At the very least it could result in a pulling out of Iran and blocking any further attempts to fund Trump’s nonsense. Hell if they need to it’d make holding up funding a lot easier since a lot of agencies work on rather short term budgets, sure ICE may have enough budget for ages but what about say the ATF, Secret Service, or military?
Subpoenas don’t do much when the law just gets ignored anyway
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Polls like this will just galvanize the magats and lull the left into staying home and letting someone else vote.
I’m already calling it for another republican majority. How this is even close is beyond my comprehension, but America.
I’m all for Dem wins. My prediction is they won’t be able to do much, and get blamed for too much time on hearings, maga will ignore subpoenas and otherwise drag it all out. Dems get blamed for not fixing all the damage, since people ignore that they don’t have the presidency, or enough majority in senate. Some people imply by comments in various places, that they think they can vote for president this election. If that’s the lack of civic comprehension the voting public has, it’s no wonder they flippantly swing back and forth and keep regressing with maga.
As usual. “fix everything in 24 months or we throw the bums back in”.
Democrats actually have to do things.
Yep. And the Murc’s Law Media gives a great big democracy-crushing assist with their bOtHsIdeS bullshit.
Republicans run the place, leave everything broken, in the ditch, and covered it all the poo they flung.
Democrats get back in, have a lot of backstabbers and feet-draggers, but don’t have much of an edge anyway, and if they don’t fix everything in mere months, the “liberal media” starts the drumbeat of how voters are having vibes about the economy being bad or whatever…
“We need to let bygones be bygones and not dwell on the past. We need to move forward and work on unity…”
Without the Senate majority no impeachment will go through.
No shit, everyone knows this. It’s the senate that we should be worried about.
People are so easy to fool. If this really turns out in a win for the GOP, man that’s the saddest fucking thing.
Fox are only predicting a 1 seat majority.
The house had been at like 99% odds for months now. The senate is at 74% now.
