Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
54 responses to “GFYs Part 2”
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Trump had no lifelong principles beyond trade wars and isolationism. There is no Trumpism without Trump. 2024 will be the last election based upon him.
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This is true, but unfortunately those self defeating “principles” will continue to dominate the GOP primaries.
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I wonder why?
Breaking: Sheikh Ibrahim Amin REFUSED nomination as the next Hezbollah leader.
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Two rallies Wednesday.
Scranton and Reading
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Interesting. Reading has a large Hispanic population – legal and illegal.
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Reagan was a political genius and great President – superior to Trump. Reagan’s ideology and coalition did not last long enough.
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”Reagan’s ideology and coalition did not last long enough.”
Concur. But…at the risk of coming off as a dead ender, I blame GHWB (41) for that; he couldn’t wait to move on from Reagan and his “voodoo economics” and go back to the comfy county club Republicanism that defined the party from about 1940 until 1980 with the exception of the brief blip in 1964.
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To be fair to GHWB, the ‘voodoo economics” comment was made during the 1980 primariesl
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I don’t share the Bush hatred on this site. I also do not know any Republicans who belong to country clubs. I do know Democrats who belong to country clubs.
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Yes, it was Jason, hence why he couldn’t wait to fall back on Nixonian economics (sans wage/price controls) once Reagan was out of the way. The infamous tax increase was only part of it.
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It’s just a phrase, Bitter; that was the party of Tom Dewey and the eastern establishment.
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still no polls
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Words have meaning. Where I live, parents with children playing lacrosse outnumber those playing soccer. So I don’t refer to soccer moms.
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Parents of my softball players either don’t say anything or tell me they support Republicans. Basketball parents just sit across the court. If they talk to me, they just talk about the game.
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All the polls are wrong unless they show Trump leading anyway.
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Lots of Republicans and Democrats are in country clubs around here. I don’t think they are “country club republicans” though.
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interesting comments on the Republican Party pre Reagan and then post. Remember, he railed against the way the party was operating in 76 and again in 1980. They didn’t want him. They wanted GWHB who was a northeast Rockefeller (sic) Republican whereas Reagan was a traditional conservative Reagan was the real “man of the people” and no one communicated to them like he did, and none since
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Trump dropped from +10 to +6 in Pennsylvania at polymarket. Seems weird. We haven’t even had any updated polling.
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See Bitter, I told you that you could count on the Mets bullpen
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For me, the “country club” moniker is more to define the personalities of the people vice where they socialize. These folks belong to the polite set, and if not outright social liberals, they don’t want to openly espouse anything remotely controversial lest they upset their radical chic friends and lose their standing invites to the neighborhood cocktail parties.
That’s what I mean by “country club.”
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OMG the Mets!
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what a game
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GF, traditionally, country club republicans has come to replace Rockefeller Republicans as a moniker for those Republicans who want to stay above the fray, are more socially liberal than they proclaim to truly be, and are a “kinder gentler” kind of Republican
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The Mets in 69, 73, and 86 were fun to watch as a baseball fan. This team is freaking unbelievable.
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In Detroit Dave Dombrowski could NEVER agent the bullpen figured out. Hence never a World Series win in two attempts and misses opportunity in a couple ALCS in which our bullpen sucked.
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Jeff, I have to agree!!! Though I think the Phillies will win in the botttom of the 9th the way this game is going…
It’s been a wild ride, basically a playoff game every day for a month
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* NEVER get
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Jeff…Mendoza’s one big weakness is how he uses his bullpen and not knowing when to take apitcher out. He should have pulled Severino before the Harper at bat. and then definitely after.
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Same with the Tigers who were 10 games out of a playoff spot on August 11. Going to the ALDS this week in Detroit.
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Damn. I don’t get invited to neighborhood cocktail parties. I don’t think there are any but maybe nobody likes me.
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Your name is not Biff, Tad or Muffy…so no invite
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and now the Phils are set up to win…
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and so it is. Still, good game. Credit to Philly for hanging in there. Seems like this series might go 5.
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Didn’t bl day the series is over. I may have to ship him limoncello. It may calm him down.
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I said it when the Phillies hadn’t hit like they can for the last 2 weeks. The Mets are like vampires. They never stop coming at you. Talented team.
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The Mets are following the script of the 2022 Phillies. Not sure how it ends for them.
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I respect the talent of the Mets players. I hate their fans. Both can be true.
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ditto
I think the Phillies win the series. I find it hard to believe they will beat Nola in game 3. I think he’s going to come with all he’s got…though Manea has been pitching well as well
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Nola will give up a home run. I think he should serve it up to the first batter and then go scoreless for the next 27 outs.
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Trump received the endorsement of the Wi sheriffs office.
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I am watching a series on National Geographic about witchcraft trials. Revisionist nonsense. They had fair trials. You floated or you didn’t. Sometimes a cat testified against you. Makes sense.
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“You floated or you didn’t. Sometimes a cat testified against you”
sounds like some of the qualifications the trials the modern day Dems put their opponents through
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where the cats eaten..
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Zzzzzzzz Unlike the J6 defendants, the witches were really innocent.
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Some are saying todays wi rally was even bigger than the butler rally.
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ouch, true, but ouch
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I guess the game today knocked everyone out. No posts on a lonely Sunday evening
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What made Reagan and Trump very similar is their appeal to the working man. Both were well known because of their long careers in entertainment. It is hard to demonize people, among the working class, those candidates who have been a part of the voters’ lives and who have become part of the American story.
However, the needs of working families changed significantly from the 1970’s to the 2010’s. Shipping of jobs overseas to China and other places as wage costs grew, left working men and women behind. For Reagan, he helped improve their lot by deregulation and cutting taxes. Trump added tariffs to the mix to protect the industrial base.
The GOP is NEVER going to nominate a free-trader again. It may nominate a presidential candidate who is less isolationist than Trump. But the days of Romneyism, Bushism, and McCainism is OVER.
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Tariffs do not protect anything but do raise the cost of things. This is especially hard on those who earn less.
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Tipp – national plus 3 for quemala
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NT
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