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What did the Kavanaugh debacle cost Democrats? Quite a bit.

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Evidently Democrats in the senate decided to push all their chips in on the the SCOTUS.
This is pretty much looking at a texas holdem hand and see that you have a full house but not realizing that the
river just gave your opponent a straight flush.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz...plenty-of-americans-think-about-all-the-chaos

I would need more data from more polls, but the numbers are slowly coming in, and well the losing side looks to be democrats on this one.

According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, “a majority of voters believe that Kavanaugh’s confirmation process was politicized and mishandled, with 69 percent calling it a "national disgrace,” according to the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, which reported on the survey.

That poll showed voters blaming both parties for the heinous process, but from the very first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s raucous hearings, sentiment began to shift in favor of Republicans.

According to the Harvard poll, “75 percent of voters believe that Senator Dianne Feinstein should have immediately turned over the letter from Christine Ford to the Senate Judiciary committee in July when she received it.” Americans believe in fair play; Feinstein’s actions were dishonest.

Such a verdict was rendered even less credible as more charges surfaced, with each new challenge looking ever more preposterous. When attorney Michael Avenatti entered the mix, presenting a woman whose accusations that Kavanaugh was present at gang rapes collapsed almost immediately in an embarrassing TV interview, the nation had had enough.

In addition, several key Senate races have shifted in favor of Republicans over the past two weeks. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report just recently moved three Senate races in favor of the GOP candidates, including contests in Montana, Nebraska and New Jersey.

One lesson i learned in business. Always pick your battles and some battles are not worth fighting.
this was one of them. The cost of this battle could be they will not take the senate and actually lose several more seats in the process.

Only time will tell.
 
Evidently Democrats in the senate decided to push all their chips in on the the SCOTUS.
This is pretty much looking at a texas holdem hand and see that you have a full house but not realizing that the
river just gave your opponent a straight flush.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz...plenty-of-americans-think-about-all-the-chaos

I would need more data from more polls, but the numbers are slowly coming in, and well the losing side looks to be democrats on this one.

According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, “a majority of voters believe that Kavanaugh’s confirmation process was politicized and mishandled, with 69 percent calling it a "national disgrace,” according to the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, which reported on the survey.

That poll showed voters blaming both parties for the heinous process, but from the very first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s raucous hearings, sentiment began to shift in favor of Republicans.

According to the Harvard poll, “75 percent of voters believe that Senator Dianne Feinstein should have immediately turned over the letter from Christine Ford to the Senate Judiciary committee in July when she received it.” Americans believe in fair play; Feinstein’s actions were dishonest.

Such a verdict was rendered even less credible as more charges surfaced, with each new challenge looking ever more preposterous. When attorney Michael Avenatti entered the mix, presenting a woman whose accusations that Kavanaugh was present at gang rapes collapsed almost immediately in an embarrassing TV interview, the nation had had enough.

In addition, several key Senate races have shifted in favor of Republicans over the past two weeks. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report just recently moved three Senate races in favor of the GOP candidates, including contests in Montana, Nebraska and New Jersey.

One lesson i learned in business. Always pick your battles and some battles are not worth fighting.
this was one of them. The cost of this battle could be they will not take the senate and actually lose several more seats in the process.

Only time will tell.

This reminds me a lot of the "DO SOMETHING!" driven Seattle CC action of enacting a law that they knew beyond a reasonable doubt was illegal and would be overturned by the courts.

They paid for that as they lost the trust of the city.
 
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