7. Most prognosticators believe Democrats are poised to take the House — A political betting site has Republicans keeping control
— Nate Silver’s prediction site gives Democrats an 84.8 percent chance of winning the House and a less than one percent chance of picking up any net seats.
— The betting odds site MyBookie.com favor Republicans keeping control of the House. The betting odds for the GOP are -140, meaning you need to bet $140 on to win $100 if they stay in the majority while Democrats are at +110, meaning a $100 bet would win you $110.
6. Senator Doug Jones has donated money to all the Democratic candidates for Congress challenging incumbent Republicans
— Despite Senator Jones’ hollow claims that he would reach across the aisle to work with Republicans if elected, and the media’s lying about that during his first election, Jones is trying to take out the entire Republican delegation in Alabama.
— The contributions were for $2,500 each to all of Alabama’s Democratic candidates, none of which have any real chance of challenging their opponents.
5. Governor Kay Ivey’s closing argument will be about jobs and economic growth
— Governor Ivey’s focus of her primary campaign and in the general has been a steady dose of comments about “steadying the ship of state” and continued economic growth in the state of Alabama.
— She told a crowd in Auburn this weekend some stats that made it hard for her opponent to attack the direction of the state. She said, “Since I’ve been governor for 18 months, we’ve seen some 16,000 new Alabama jobs created, $8 billion in private investment for those jobs and, y’all, together we’ve experienced the lowest unemployment rate in our state’s history.”
4. Alabama Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell says President Donald Trump is not to blame for violence, but blames him anyway
— Rep. Sewell appeared on MSNBC and talked out of both sides of her mouth about the [resident’s role in America’s discourse, “[I] do believe that the president, while he is not directly responsible for the violence, I think that because of the tone that he has set – not just as president, but as candidate – when he went down those escalators, since then he’s been about dividing our country, not about building bridges to try to heal our partisan divide.”
— Sewell also repeated a modern Democrat trope where she acknowledged that maybe her side has a role in this as well, stating, “It is about what he does day in and day out to actually fuel and inspire hatred in others. And I just think that it is really important that we all take some responsibility for this and dial down our rhetoric.” But she failed to call out her side by name.
3. Alabama’s media continues to show its readers why they can’t be trusted
— In its odd coverage of an old story, multiple outlets in Alabama recapped about a donation Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall received from the Republican Attorneys General Association. The story used two attorneys as their attack dogs, labeling one of them a Republican in spite of her multiple donations to Democrat Joseph Siegelman during the primaries.
— The Decatur Daily and the Florence Times Daily came out hard against Congressman Mo Brooks’ re-election, declaring he doesn’t represent “the interests of the Fifth District” because he is a “favorite of cable news” because of his views on illegal immigration which, obviously, represent the views of his constituents.
2. The mail bomber was caught — He was a huge Trump fan, and now the media demands Trump stop criticizing his political opponents
— Mail bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc had a van, which he lived in, covered in pro-Trump decals. He sent at least 14 bombs to Democrats and critics of the president.
— The president shows no signs of slowing down on his rallies and his attacks on those who oppose his presidency. They show no sign of slowing down their attacks on him either.
1. Eleven killed by a domestic terrorist who hated Jews and hated Trump for not hating Jews
— Authorities are treating the attack as a hate crime. The 11 killed were part of three congregations meeting at the synagogue and the attacker said he was doing it because a Jewish group was helping refugees.
— The horrific attack has been used to demand that Republicans stop criticizing Jewish Democrats like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, and strangely NeedToImpeach.com’s funder Tom Steyer, who isn’t even Jewish.
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