Daily Verse | Luke 11:30
“For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.”
Friday’s Reading: Luke 12-14
Saturday’s Reading: Luke 15-18
Happy Friday and welcome to the weekend.
Thought I would send us all off into the weekend on a happy, or at least a positive, note. Monmouth just came out with a poll that shows Republicans with a 6-point lead in a generic ballot leading up to the midterms in just, what, 18 days?
Remember, most polls skew Left, so any Republican lead is likely stronger than what is reported. If this number (+6) holds up, there are good things in store for the GOP in November.
Former Former Vice President Mike Pence is bullish on Republican’s chances.
“I think we are 20 days away from a historic victory for conservative values, for Republican candidates, and that’s going to be step one. We win back the Congress. We win statehouses across the country. Two years from now, we’ll win back America,” he said in an appearance on Fox News’ “America Reports.”
Of course I hope he’s right, but I have a hard time believing that the GOP will do much with their restored power. If they couldn’t even repeal Obamacare after we gave them all three branches of government in 2016, what do we think will motivate them to do some real work to protect our constitutional republic against the crazies in the Other Party and in the Deep State? I am not optimistic.
In the Monmouth poll, the issues most concerning to Americans aren’t what the Other Party is focused on.
Those rating “inflation” as most important went up 9 percent since September, as groceries and gas have increased in price. As a Democrat strategist once said, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
In other good news, Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is within striking distance of Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) in New York’s gubernatorial race.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday showed Hochul leading her Republican challenger by a mere 4%…
Even more shocking, the Democrat is leading New York City by 22%, with Zeldin earning an estimated 37% of likely NYC voters — an extremely big grab for a Republican in the deep-blue city.
“WOW. A new Quinnipiac Poll finds [Lee Zeldin] way over a key 30% threshold in NYC – widely seen as key to a GOP candidate winning statewide in supposedly super blue NYC,” the New York Post’s Zach Williams reported Tuesday.
Popular upstate New York radio host Bob Lonsberry remarked on the polling news, “People who ought to know say that if Zeldin is above 35% in NYC, he’s the next governor,” he tweeted. “This is why Kathy is in NYC every day passing out taxpayer money.”
Having done most of my growing up in the Empire State, I still have people there, as does my wife, so my interest there is personal as well as being a bell weather for what’s happening nationally.
Stephen Green takes a look at the Monmouth poll and makes this observation:
Nationwide, Republicans currently lead on Monmouth’s generic ballot by six points. That in and of itself is remarkable, but it becomes stunning when you see that 50% of voters prefer the GOP, instead of the more-typical 42- or 43-point ceiling in a winning year. That Monmouth poll isn’t much of an outlier, either, with Hart, Harris, and Rasmussen all reporting similar results.
But it gets worse. Check out these numbers for parents:
This tells me that parents who have kids in local schools have had enough of progressives letting their freak flags fly for teachers with pink danger hair and nose-rings declaring it’s their job to guide your little angel into some bastardization of sexual norms. They’re breaking R+35.
Finally, even CNBC has the GOP up by 2 and “dominant” on the economy.
That gives readers a pretty good look at the overall political environment — gloomy and likely angry. Other poll numbers give a clearer indication of whom voters are angry with on these issues. On the question of which party would do better on each issue, the GOP has double-digit leads heading into Election Day:
- Inflation: GOP 42%, Dems 27%
- Taxes: 40/29
- Deficit: 36/25
- Job creation: 43/33
On top of all that, RedFin just released a report with more bad economic news that plays to the GOP’s perceived strength.
Real estate giant RedFin released a bombshell report this week that revealed a record drop in home sales for September. The number of homes sold last month fell a staggering 25%. Equally alarming, new listings fell 22%, indicating a substantial pullback in the market by both buyers and sellers.
The drops marked records in each category, excluding the beginning of the pandemic, when the reason for such low numbers had nothing to do with an uncertain economy and higher interest rates.
While nothing is guaranteed, there is a lot of positive news out there for conservatives and like-minded voters. Just remember: take nothing for granted. Get out there and vote on November 8.
I’m traveling again this weekend and into early next week, so there won’t be a Broadside until Wednesday. Have a good weekend and thanks for reading.