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BumRushDaShow

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14. "Numerous polls show"

Reply to everyonematters (Reply #13)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:31 AM

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"Numerous polls" MISSED the extent of the 2018 and 2022 blue waves and because of what has happened in the past year, are probably underestimating the anger against the 45 administration's actions by BOTH parties in STATES/COUNTIES/MUNICIPALITIES.

FACT: Right here in PA, Democrats flipped the state House in 2022 after being out of power for 12 years (and have held it through numerous special elections due to members leaving or passing away in office).

FACT: Last March (2025), Democrats flipped a +15% 45-voting State Senate district and now only need to flip 3 more seats to retake the State Senate. If we do manage to do that, then that will allow us to have the FIRST TRIFECTA IN 33 YEARS (since the dawn of the Clinton administration in 1993).

IOW, those "national polls" do not reflect what the great former Speaker of the House was known to proclaim -

ETA - let me add that the state of VA, which has been "redder" than PA, NOW HAVE A SUPER-MAJORITY IN ITS HOUSE OF DELEGATES this past November (2025) and with the win by Democrat Abigail Spanberger as governor, now have a TRIFECTA, increasing (D) trifectas by 1.

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