'In 1890, Republicans were convinced they would win the midterm elections'

[Joinfortmill]

Letters from an American: Heather Cox Richardson: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-30-2022?s=r

'This letter is for the musician I met this week...She said that in her travels lately she feels something powerful building under the radar, and asked me if such a thing had ever happened before.'

'...Carnegie wrote in 1889, " ...The money flowing up to the top meant that the country’s wealthiest men could build libraries and concert halls and universities and art collections to raise the cultural standards of the whole country.

...Americans could see that the nation was not in the rosy shape Republicans claimed. On shop floors in eastern factories, workers shoveled coal or worked looms for fourteen to sixteen hours a day for pennies...Farmers were saddled with high-interest mortgages, middlemen who skimmed the profits when crops went to market, and freight charges from railroad monopolies that took the rest.

While congressmen and eastern newspapers fought over every scrap of Washington political gossip, western farmers and workers and entrepreneurs had organized. New newspapers, letters, barbecues, lectures, and picnics had done their work, educating those on the peripheries of politics about the grand issues of the day. When the votes were counted after the November 1890 election, the Alliances...controlled 52 seats in the new Congress, enough to swing laws in their direction.'

Keep the faith.

[keithbvadu2]

1. Inherently biased surveys

Statistics 101 class. During the depression a telephone survey was conducted and it was obvious that the Republicans were going to win. WRONG! The survey was inherently biased because only the relatively well-to-do could afford telephones.

[Buckeyeblue]

2. I do think that the cristofacist are a loudmouth minority

I mean they seem to be an obvious majority in some red states but I think everywhere else they just yell a lot. Most Democrats that I know are not the yelling type.

I think we'll see more quiet votes for the Democratic candidates this fall. People, not people like us who closely monitor government, but normal people who pay attention in their own way, see what the cristofacist are doing and it bothers them.