President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Dems shoulder win the House but not the Senate, because of North Dakota and, possibly, Missouri and Indiana. Walker will lose in Wisconsin so the Dems there will need another punching bag.

There is so much anti-Trump angst but the U.S. economy is at something like 3.7%. That is VERY hard to run against unless you have something like the 2006 Iraq war to rally the left. The U.S. border issue never turned out to be the magic bullet. Now it's Ford/Kavanaugh. Will it work? Perhaps but I don't see a sea change.

When the economy is crap, people hold out their hand for more government action.

When the economy is good, people love smaller government.

 

Is that a tan suit?

 

Dressing up as the Smooth Criminal is never a good look.

 

Unemployment is at 3.7 percent, which is very good. But wage growth continues to lag what conventional economics says should be increases due to the low unemployment. This negates some of the political benefit of the economy, because many folks don't see it in their own paychecks. I honestly don't think the economy is going to move that many voters compared to other issues, especially health care for Democrats and immigration for Republicans. But the bottom line remains that midterms are almost always a referendum on the President. Unless all the polls are wrong in an unprecedented way, Trump is n overall drag on his party.

 

Little things can add up, though.

My "wage increase" this year is a typical 2 percent.
The tax cut effectively gives me a 1.3 percent raise on top of that.
Shortly after the tax cut was announced, my company resumed 401(k) matching, which had been in hiatus for almost a decade. That adds another 2 percent.

So in the end, I received a very modest 2 percent wage increase but effectively will have 5.3 percent added to my total income for the year.

 

Get ready for a Wag the Dog episode in the next week or so.

 

None of the four major Sunday Shows reported on the Times' story on Trump's taxes.

 

No, just a blazer. But this new Hercule Poirot movie is gonna be great.

 

She was a model. She does clothes as instinctively as he lies.

 

All the polls are wrong but the precedent is 11/2016.

 

She is starting to look like a first wife who is trying too hard.

 

The timidity of the Democratic party is appalling.