GOP turnout is down, dem turnout is up, that's a big part.

There's gotta be a way to re-galvanize support

results:

stop typing I'm posting results

WI SD10 2016:
Republican: 56496 (63.22%)
Democrat: 32863 (36.78%)
Total: 89359

WI SD10 2018:
Republican: 9908 (44.16%) (17.5% of 2016)
Democrat: 12250 (54.59%) (37.3% of 2016)
Other: 280 (1.25%)
Total: 22438 (25.1% of 2016)

Not sure how Trump and the RNC are spending their political capital, whether they're saving it for the midterm day itself or something, but there should 100% be a plan under wraps for them.

One thing I know, money doesn't win elections on its own.

This isn't that hard

if the GOP made phone calls to their voters,

this wouldn't be a problem

If only the government was capable of anything competent

There absolutely should be a strategy for at least Trump

I just don't think he's doing nothing about this

I'm just not sure what it is if he does

https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_State_Senate_elections,_2018

HOLY FUCK

LOOK AT THIS SHIFT

I tell you what, I'd be panicked if we had the midterms tomorrow with this type of political environment.

This is extremely concerning

+21.49% average Dem shift only **today**

Something's gotta change in the environment, that's the thing

SC, WI, IA are supposed to be Trump states, remember

Yeah, there's just gotta be a way

I'm gonna need a drink, this is too much for one night...

Politics is a changing course, it doesn't stay the same, I'm just not sure this momentum could be kept up.

It should be changed, I tell you, if I were Trump, I'd have justice as a main focus, I'll be honest, if there's any way to salvage this season, it's going to be through high profile arrests.

That's what energizes people.

I'd be down campaigning for candidates directly, Trump himself is a much more valuable physical political asset than all the money the RNC has.

Not tweets, rallies.

I seriously don't understand,

The last thing that should be on Trump's mind or anyone in the RNC is to remain on this course

About 60,000 voters didn't show up tonight

why the hell did they stay home?

Not an election day

but they showed up in 2016

was it nov. 8 2016 or a random day

lemme check

Nov 6

*8

but still

It makes sense

If you have the ballot sheet down the line when you're voting for president, you'll vote for senators, congressmen, and state legislature

A lot of people aren't thinking politics and voting on some random day in January

Clearly less of the Rs are coming out than dems, which is a major issue.

Not sure whether it's demotivation, or energy from the left, or both, but it's an issue.

We've gotta have some sort of major event happen

Trump better have something major up his sleeve to be able to turn this around, because the issues aren't going to cut it. "the economy" isn't going to be winning the GOP any elections any time soon, sad to say.

As for the moment, though, doesn't look good.

a 'trump card' is really what I'm crossing my fingers for, there's gotta be a good plan other than business as usual.

if the midterms were held today, we'd be destroyed, that I can say

Agreed

Let's find a way to change the course somehow, theorize, strategize or whatever, but let's do that later, it's the middle of the night and I'm gonna hit the bed.

This reminds of 2017 too,

Look at Virginia last year. Yes, it's a purple state but going into the election Republicans controlled 66 of 100 seats in their legislature. They lost 15 seats and only maintained their majority by a fucking random drawing. And it wasn't because of massive Democrat turnout (yes, Dem turnout was higher than the last election but not overly so), it was because of MASSIVELY lower GOP turnout in rural areas. Republicans lost seats in places that never should have even been in play.

while Democrat turnout is higher in percentage,

it's not in raw numbers.
Democrats noticed after GA06 that when they don't announce the vote, only Dems will turn out because of their anger.

REPUBLICANS,

GET,

OFF,

YOUR,

LAZY,

ASSES

**VOTE**

I just woke up and looked through the rest of the thread last night, great discussion guys !

I'm not surprised by that D shift

as I mentioned before....state legislature elections can be massively gamed because people don't really hear about them

which means that the pissed off motivated side does the best

I'm gonna rewrite the OP for the general thread

Hard to understate just how disastrous a sign for 2018 the GOP's loss in the WI state Senate special election (SD-10 in Western WI) is. Harsdorf an incumbent who made this seat look stronger for GOP than it naturally is, but still, a 9pt loss among Trump's core vote? DOOM.

state legislature elections in January =/= congressional elections in November

well were does this candidate stand on local issues?

can't be as bad as Warren (fucking kill me plz)

4 elections in deeply Trump districts tonight. All saw huge swing toward Dems compared to 2016 pres results.

SC HD99: +15% net swing toward Dems
IA HD06: +18%
WI SD10: +24% or +27%
WI AD58: +25%

We have a turnout problem

yeah, so the question is...what can be done to make Republicans turn out

and what are the Democrats doing to make them turn out

I'm guessing a lot of funding

We can't do this online

We need to go knocking on doors

make phone calls

a lot of organization through websites like the Daily Kos

put up fliers, etc.

GOTV efforts

oh yeah

yes, exactly

I'm not sure what the hell the GOP is doing

they should be aware of this

they already gave up

wtf

honestly one of the best things we can do is spread this information to every right leaning person we can find

as proof that they still need to vote for these elections

oh yeah

so here's something major we're going to have to push in the general

having everyone who browses the thread on /pol/ to make a list of all the people they know in real life willing to vote for GOP candidates

@Red Storm (in NYC) visit your local RNC office and ask them how you can help

and to PM them about it

btw, don't get anxious about this. The GOP won every other race yesterday, 6 to 1

can we get a spreadsheet or list over the results of every race yesterday?

on it fam

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C2MVeM2K7WgqmJw5RCQbWyTo2u73CX1pI8zw_G-7BJo/edit