George Rebane

The Left predicted that yesterday's elections would be a referendum on Trump – well, it turns out they were right.

Yesterday was a disaster for the Democrats, and today everyone from their media mentors to their grassroots minions are scrambling to put enough lipstick on last night’s election results to distract the distractable.  CNN’s Eric Bradner writes, “Democrats tried an inoffensive moderate message in Georgia.  They ran a banjo-strumming populist in Montana.  They called in the cavalry in South Carolina and tried to catch their foe sleeping through a long-shot in Kansas.  None of it worked. … Now party officials, strategists and candidates are pondering what went wrong – how can they turn it around in time for the 2018 midterm elections.  … Seth Moulton (D, MA) tweeted ‘… better be a wake-up call for Democrats.’" (more here)

As another example of the reliability of political polling, the Georgia race was supposed to be a neck-to-neck race into which Dems poured tens of millions of out-of-state money to finally derail the Trump train.  Instead, Republican Karen Handel walked away from her Democrat challenger Jon Ossof with an almost six-point lead – a landslide in any political contest.  But that makes no never mind to those policy-poor liberals who, for over a year now, have put their faith in polls while voters continue to pay no attention to these futile exercises in propagandized political prognostication.

Locally we see this pattern replicated by progressives who have long since abandoned embarrassment as the usual response to being so consistently wrong for so long with ceaseless citing of their favorite poll results – ‘Never mind the election results, keep looking at how much Trump’s approval rating dropped since last week.’

These desperate loyalists have now surpassed their calamitous climate change comrades, some of whom are starting to admit in the media that their temperature predictions are in gross error and that we really have no reliable way to tell whether preventable manmade global warming is really occurring.  Scientists sensing a funding sea change under Trump are coming out of the woodwork to reveal that the General Circulation Models IPCC used for their catastrophe calculations are terribly flawed.  (Something that the rest of us familiar with the technology have known for years.)

So what to do?  Well, the Russia affair still provides some traction, so let's go back to Allegation Alley and see whom we can mug next.