A few days ago I showed how the polls for the Dems have gone from bad to worse since the November elections.

Quite simply, the Dems deserve to lose and keep losing.

However, so do the Republicans.



By a 54 – 38 percent margin, American voters want the Democratic Party to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives. This is the widest margin ever measured for this question in a Quinnipiac University poll, exceeding a 5 percentage point margin for Republicans in 2013.

The Republican policy proposals are horrendous to say the least.

They seem to show particular disdain for their own working-class supporters. Eventually those voters are going to notice that their party despises them.



US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson has sparked outrage after describing poverty as a "state of mind".

During an interview with Sirius XM radio on Tuesday, Mr Carson suggested people are poor because they learned the "wrong mindset" from their parents.

The retired neurosurgeon oversees a department that manages housing for the country's low-income population.

Many poor Republicans embrace self-loathing and punching down. That much is obvious, but I'm betting that a lot don't.

Increasingly Young Republicans are figuring out that their party simply doesn't care about them.



Now, an incredible new study by the Pew Research Center shows that Republicans are not only failing to make gains with young people as time passes but are also shedding them at a rapid clip...

In general, Pew finds that most party identification is "sticky" and voters rarely budge from their party affiliation. Except young Republicans. It's been reported often and for many years that Republicans are losing younger people, but what is most shocking about the Pew study is the narrow window in which this wave of defections occurred. In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at some point, with roughly a quarter bidding the GOP adieu for good. No other group, by age or party, wavered so much or defected in such substantial numbers... The half of young Republicans who left the party were not ones who left in 2008 because of former President Barack Obama, or ones who left over Republican obstruction in Congress, or even ones who left over the emergence of President Trump as a front-runner in the GOP. By December 2015, those folks were long gone. No, the half of young Republicans who wobbled or left the party altogether were die-hard enough to be on board with the GOP all the way through the moment that Trump sat well atop the primary polls.

Obviously that is not a sustainable trend for the GOP.

And remember, this is before the next recession hits, which according to economists will probably be before the 2018 election.

What's more, these young republicans are also part of the same millennial group being crushed under student debt.



Nearly half of college students surveyed earlier this year said they expected to be helped by the federal government’s various student loan forgiveness programs. But new government figures suggest that their hoped-for windfall won’t be that generous. In a first-of-its-kind public analysis, the U.S. Department of the Education projects that borrowers who next year enroll in loan forgiveness programs would, on average, repay every penny they borrowed, and then some...

In fact, the feds project that just 53 percent of debtors who’d enroll in these plans in the 2018 fiscal year would receive any forgiveness at all, according to estimates made public on Wednesday. Even that estimate may be too high, separate government figures suggest.

Republican approval numbers are dumping almost as bad as Democratic approval numbers are.





To say that there is an opportunity here is an understatement.

To take advantage of that opportunity requires vision that neither party's establishment has.