Is my new @townhallcom column just wishful thinking, or is the blue wave gonna be as flaccid as a Democrat on his wedding night?
“The midterm polls suck, and they might be right – if you believe them, we could be headed for anything from a blue tsunami to a blue wave to a blue trickle. But that’s a big if. To avoid that conclusion, you have to believe that the majority of polls, which are undeniably showing most of our key Senate candidates losing, are inaccurate. Now, this is where it gets tricky, because we want to believe in a massive polling miss. We want to believe that the polls are skewed Dem-ward. We want to believe that there are Republicans out there who aren’t being surveyed by these polls who are going to show up on election day and pull our bacon out of the fire. The power of wanting is potent, and it can blind you. It can make you stupid. It can make you miss the obvious. And that danger exists there. Those polls could be substantially correct, in which case we’re going to have a very bad November 3rd.
And yet…”
Why the Dem-Friendly Polls May Be Way Wrong https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/10/01/why-the-dem-friendly-polls-may-be-way-wrong-n2683885
There's a rush to blame Senator GOP Leader John Thune for not eliminating the filibuster to jam through bills and nominations that didn't pass in the 119th Congress's waning days. It's a fool's errand. https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/destroy-the-senate-to-save-it
Fredocons, squishes and timeservers were a big part of the problem, per my new @townhallcom column!
“A gratifying response to the absolute disaster last Tuesday has been the fact that Republicans in general have started a good-faith debate about what the hell happened and what we should do next. Oh yeah, there are some schmucks in there gloating, and a few grifters are trying to leverage the disaster to resurrect their garbage Bush-era brand of uniparty decline, but they don’t count. Mike Pence, for example, weighed in, but he weighs nothing — the guy couldn’t be more of a lightweight, and the notion that anyone cares what Mike Pence says, whose name isn’t Mike Pence, is positively hilarious.
We’re going to be hashing this out for a while. One of the things to consider among dozens of factors is the total failure of the kind of “normal” Republican that is supposedly the common-sense, adult-in-the-room alternative to those wacky MAGA guys who allegedly blow easy layup ...
Democrats who think voters embraced their policies last week should look at how they voted on 164 state ballot initiatives. It tells a different story. https://kellyjohnston.substack.com/p/silver-linings-playbook
