howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Quite a mixed bag of results but the interesting bit is the Democrats having a majority in the House of Representatives. This gives the Democrats the leverage to impeach the President over alleged collusion with Russia in 2016 and also stop Trump getting new laws passed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Telegraph
Donald Trump has secured a greater majority in the Senate by taking three seats from the Democrats in the midterm elections. The Republicans' success in North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri has allowed Mr Trump to claim the midterms as a "tremendous success", though the loss of the House of Representatives presents the likelihood of legislative roadblock over the next two years. But the good news for the president is that he has secured net gains in Senate seats despite low approval ratings and trailing behind the Democrats in the popular vote. Through the same targeted approach as he deployed in his 2016 presidential bid, Mr Trump seems to have played for key seats instead of votes.
Mr Trump has therefore become one of just two presidents with an approval rating lower than 50 per cent to win seats in the Senate, the other being Ronald Reagan in 1982. That year, the Republicans gained one seat in the upper chamber, despite Mr Reagan's low approval rating of 42 per cent.
The president's performance means the Republicans have blocked some of the Democrats' rising stars from reaching Congress. Beto O'Rourke, who had become a pin-up for American liberals by running a surprisingly competitive race in Texas, ultimately fell short, with Ted Cruz winning re-election as the state's senator.
A sitting president has only won Senate seats in five elections since 1946 Trump's victory in the Senate bucks a wider historic trend. The incumbent president's party have won seats in the Senate in just five elections since 1946, but lost seats in 13. In 2014, Barack Obama's Democrats lost nine seats in the upper chamber, with an approval rating hovering at around the same level as Mr Trump's in the run up to these midterms.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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This cancellation shows what a light weight leader he really is, can you imagine any other world leader doing the same.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Top trolling!
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Trump campaign more for the vets than any other president?
maybe he just could not stomach standing with all the rats selling out Europ to day ?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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FWIW I was in the US Embassy this morning listening to the Ambassador fielding questions on the similarities or otherwise between Trump and Reagan.
He was very errrr diplomatic!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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long over due haoward.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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It’s Panto season all year now Howard.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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rain is forcast in the dc area, bad hair day on its way. lol
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Oh dear. There's a lot of people at the Pentagon and the CIA banging their heads against the wall just now! Expect announcement of US troop pull out within 24 hrs.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/19/politics/us-syria-withdrawal/index.html'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Bad news for neocons. Good news for the rest of us.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Bad news for neocons. Good news for the rest of us.
Pleased to see that nice Mr Putin agrees with you
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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And I'm very pleased indeed that establishment Republicans and Clinton Democrats, the Pentagon, head-choppers, Friends of Israel, Tony Blair, jihadists and that good old bastion of English liberal journalism The Guardian don't. Who needs enemies with friends like these.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I wonder for how long, the USA like to poke their nose in other countries affairs as it keep their military active.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Mad Dog's had enough.
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