We Have Cast Our Ballots or Will on Tuesday, We have Rallied for President Trump and Stood Up for Him and For America -- Now We Wait

ELECTION DAY 2018. America faces itself on November 6, 2018. We Americans have done that many times. On July 4, 1776, when we declared our independence from England and stood up to fight a Revolutionary War to earn our freedom to govern ourselves. On April 6, 1917, when the US, threatened with an all-out worldwide attack by Germany's submarines to stop our maritime help for the European allied forces, joined then -- Britain, France, and Russia -- to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million US soldiers fought on battlefields in France. Around 4,000,000 soldiers were mobilized and 116,708 American military personnel died during World War I from all causes (influenza, combat and wounds). Over 204,000 were wounded and 757 US civilians died due to military action. On June 5, 1947, when after mobilizing D-Day and winning World War II, America decided to enter into its first major foreign aid program, the Marshall Plan, to rebuild Europe, despite a vigorous propaganda contest with the USSR and their European communist allies. On February 12, 1973, when Operation Homecoming began the release of 591 American POWs from Hanoi, until March 29, 1973, when the last remaining American troops withdraw from Vietnam as President Nixon declares "the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come." America's longest war, and its first defeat, thus concluded, and by which time 58,000 US soldiers had lost their lives in a war that caused bitter divisions in the American people that are still felt today. On November 4, 1979, when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Teheran, held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, and cost the lives of eight soldiers who died during the ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw rescue attempt on April 24, 1980. The American hostages were released on January 20,1981, as President Reagan was being inaugurated for his first term. Sadly, we did absolutely nothing to officially avenge the attack on diplomatic personnel. Absolutely. Nothing. On September 11, 2012, when members of Ansar al-Sharia attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi resulting in the deaths of US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and US Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA operatives, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALS. After Benghazi, nothing has been done, despite congressional hearings and general American outrage that nobody -- especially then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then President Barack Obama -- have had to accept blame for the tragic events allowed to occur in order to save Obama's 2012 re-election. • In fact, in recent history, if April 14, 1986 is still considered 'recent,' the only official retaliation for attacks on US personnel were the US air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against American troops and citizens. President Ronald Reagan ordered expanded sanctions and froze Libyan assets in the United States, and ordered the military action as retaliation for a Berlin terrorist bombing, which Reagan described as the latest act in Libya's "reign of terror." • Because, I believe Republicans and President Trump will win, UNLESS America has become another country that we simply don't know and don't belong in. • THE 2018 MID- TERM ELECTIONS. Why talk about history or American retaliation on the day before the Mid-terms? The historical accounts of America standing up for itself, and the bitterness and anger that has always accompanied not standing up when it was required, decisively mark this election. America used to be good at defending itself, its vital interests, and its allies. Then, we fell into a period after Vietnam in which we allowed our national interests to be submerged in the general global interests expressed at the UN. That acquiescence in less-than-American values and the resulting submission of American assets and resources to political and economic theories and values that had never before defined America as a sovereign nation led to America being bled of its strengths for causes and political agendas that Americans does not agree with -- socialist nanny statism, globalist theories of government that eradicate nation states, and anti-Judeo-Christian cultural and religious ascendance that made Western culture an outcast. • Then, came the election of 2016. Donald Trump had seen all that, and in his in-their-face way, challenged the proponents of America's misuse and decline. He won. But, the victory, unlike any other in American history, has not been accepted by those he defeated. Instead of working within the American political framework to try to re-win the confidence of the American people, they attacked President Trump personally, tried to oust him by concocting a story about his "collusion" with Russia, calling his a liar and unfit to be President, calling his supporters Deplorables and Dregs, and racheting their anger up to include street violence that has been encouraged and never criticized by the highest levels of their leadership. The illegal spying on his political opponent by President Obama and his Deep State marked the end of the Democrat Party's support for the US Constitution and its legislative and judicial processes. I believe Republicans and President Trump will win, UNLESS America has become another country, one that we simply don't know, and don't belong in. • • • TODAY'S POLITICAL REALITY IN AMERICA. We have discussed it all here in our blogs over the past months. There is no need to do it again. But, we should remind ourselves of its completely unacceptable tactics. In Miami last weekend, Obama defended Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to send and receive classified information, downplayed the severity of the Ebola virus, defended the migrant caravan trekking north toward the US, and attacked President Donald Trump. Obama said : “We all try to put a positive spin on things, but what we have not seen the way we are seeing right now is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lie. Just making stuff up. That’s what they’re doing now all the time. By the way, it’s not the first time. They do this every election cycle. Try to terrify folks and then the election comes and problem suddenly magically vanishes. In 2010, they said Bill and I were setting up death panels to kill your grandma. Remember that? In 2014 they said Ebola is going to kill all of us, shut the borders. In 2016, it was Hillary’s emails. They were all wound up about that. Now in 2018, they’re telling you the existential threat to America is a bunch of poor refugees a thousand miles away. They’re even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt at the border.” Obama, without so much as an apology, claimed Republicans and Trump have been “shamelessly lying.” That is one of their tactics. • Another tactic is to sound high-minded and honest while plotting the destruction of President trump -- Obama said last week : Obama ended his speech paralleling his mantra of hope and change: “Change is gonna happen. Hope is gonna happen. With each new step we take, hope will spread. Goodness will spread. And you will be the ones who will have done it. It starts with you. Let’s go vote. Let’s go make change. Let’s go make hope.” That sounds like "Yes we Can" -- it led to 8 years of a continuing collapse of American social unity, economic power, and worldwide leadership. • Obama on Friday decried as a “political stunt” President Trump’s plan to send thousands of US soldiers to the Mexican border to block migrants from entering the country. He and the Democrats oppose borders because htey need illegal immigrants as voters once in place and receiving America's largesse as a benefits package. Obama said in Miami that the Republican administration was “even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt at the border," saying the deployment was serving to “get folks angry and ginned up...There’s just constant fearmongering to distract from the record.” We know the Obama record -- DACA, illegals committing murders and smuggling drugs into the US. But, it's a tactic that seems to work with some American voters. • The mainstream ProgDem media is owned by their friends, and its reporters are propagandists for Obama and the Democrats. The latest example is blatant -- CNN reporter Randi Kaye was conducting interviews at a rally for Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on Friday when she “randomly” interviewed Gillum’s mother. Obama spoke in support of Gillum, who currently serves as the mayor of Tallahassee, at a Miami, Florida rally on Friday. Gillum is squaring off against Republican Florida Representative Ron DeSantis. Kaye was asking rally attendees if Obama’s speech would affect their vote. One woman, who had not been identified to the audience, replied, “Um, I believe that it will....My name is Frances Gillum,” the woman told Kaye. “As a matter of fact, my son is running for governor.” An ACCIDENT??? Not likely, coming from CNN. A tactic to bamboozle American voters. No doubt !! • • • TOMORROW IS D-DAY 2018. Seventy-four years after the D-Day that saved Europe from Nazi domination, Americans are being called on to stand up for freedom one more time. We may get tired of doing that, but this time is different. It is for America. For the survival of the Republic. That is not an exaggeration. And, polls be damned, President Trump is winning the war despite the Democrat tactic of smearing him and his supporters and the Republican Party. • Rasmussen has a word of caution for those predicting a Blue Wave : "Democrats hold just a three-point lead on the latest Rasmussen Reports Generic Congressional Ballot which has a +/- 2 margin of error. Look for our final Generic Ballot Monday morning. Just as in 2016, Democrats are more outspoken about how they’re going to vote in the upcoming elections than Republicans and unaffiliated voters are. Is it possible that another silent red wave is coming?" • THE Monday, November 05, 2018, Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll has been released. It shows that 50% of Likely US Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance, while 49% disapprove. On this day in 2010, President Obama’s second year in office, 45% of voters approved of the job he was doing; 54% disapproved. The latest figures include 36% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -5. Now that Gallup has quit the field, Rasmussen Reports is the only nationally recognized public opinion firm that still tracks President Trump's job approval ratings on a daily basis. The final Rasmussen Reports Generic Congressional Ballot before Election Day shows Republicans edging ahead by one point, but in essence, the two parties are tied. The survey has a +/-2 percentage point margin of error. Just as in 2016, Democrats are more outspoken about how they’re going to vote in the upcoming elections than Republicans and unaffiliated voters are. Is it possible that another silent red wave is coming? Most voters now commend the President for his economic leadership. That's potentially good news for Republicans facing an election in which voters say Trump and the economy are the big issues. When it comes to their vote, voters say a candidate's policies and track record as far more important than their party or those who support them. And, 77% of Republicans say they always vote in midterm elections, as do 71% of Democrats and 63% of voters not affiliated with either major political party. The real story tomorrow will be which side turns out even more than usual. Voters tend to agree with the President's decision to send troops to the southern border to stop thousands of Central Americans now in Mexico from entering the United States illegally. Illegal immigration is the most important voting issue in the upcoming elections for 22% of Republicans, 15% of unaffiliated voters and 8% of Democrats. • THE Monday, November 05, 2018, final Rasmussen Reports Generic Congressional Ballot before Election Day shows Republicans edging ahead by one point, but in essence, the two parties are tied. The survey has a +/-2 percentage point margin of error. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of Likely US Voters finds that 46% would choose the Republican candidate if the elections for Congress were held today, while 45% would vote for the Democrat. 3% prefer some other candidate, and 6% remain undecided. A week ago, Democrats held a 47% to 44% lead. Since Rasmussen Reports began the weekly surveying in early May, Democrats have led every week but one until early last month. Following the controversy surrounding the Senate confirmation of US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Generic Congressional Ballot was tied for two weeks, but then Democrats moved back ahead. The GOP now has a small lead among voters not affiliated with either major party. But significantly, 20% of these voters remain undecided or prefer someone other than the Republican or Democratic candidates. Just as in 2016, Democrats are more outspoken about how they’re going to vote in the upcoming elections than Republicans and unaffiliated voters are. Is it possible that another silent red wave is coming? At this time in 2014, prior to the last non-presidential year congressional elections, Republicans held a minor 43% to 41% lead. The GOP went on to gain control of the Senate and increase its majority in the House of Representatives in those elections. Republicans now lead among men and those 40 and over. Democrats have the advantage among women and younger voters. Blacks overwhelmingly prefer the Democrat. The Republican has small leads among whites and other minority voters. In the U.S. House of Representatives, all 435 seats are on November’s ballot. Republicans now have a 47-seat majority in the House, so Democrats need to take away 24 GOP seats to gain control. In the US Senate, 32 seats are up for grabs this November, but 23 of them are now held by Democrats. So Democrats need to hold all 23 of those and pick up two of the Republican seats to win control of the Senate. 43% of voters say the country is headed in the right direction. This compares to the mid- to high 20s for most weeks during President Obama's last year in office. • • • THE ECONOMY IS BETTER THAN EVER IN HISTORY. The November 2 Jobs Report showed a gain of 250,000 Jobs, 32,000 manufacturing, 30,000 construction, 5,000 mining, 24,800 transportation & warehousing. But wages soaring 3.1% says it all. • With incredible vigor, President Trump has flown around the country in support of his party’s candidates at rallies everywhere, drawing large crowds who wait for hours in line to get into the venues. These are not carried on most major channels and are barely reported, but it’s hard find a better measure of support and enthusiasm. • Blexit -- a movement by black voters to leave the Democrat Party -- has grown, and this, too, spells bad news for the Democrats, who depends on a balkanized base of suburban women, Hispanics and blacks to carry them to the finish line. The latest Rasmussen account shows black approval for Trump is now up to 40%, which has to be sounding alarm bells for the DNC. Nor can the Democrats rely on Hispanic voters -- confidence that African Americans, Asians and Hispanics have in their personal finances improving over the next four years should be enough to help GOP leaders retain control of Congress in the midterm elections and reelect President Trump, according to a new survey. While generally not fans of the President, the three key groups have a good feeling about their future and that should temper their concerns at the polls, said the survey from Zogby Analytics. • Who is peddling the Blue Wave scenario? Those who cannot believe they lost in 2016. • While we cannot know how early voters voted, the number of Republicans voting early has shot up and shows a remarkable Republican advantage : "That blue wave we kept hearing about is being overcome by a crimson tsunami, at least according to early voting tallies as Republicans prove to be more motivated than Democrats. NBC News reported that more people showed up to early voting, outpacing the 2014 midterms by leaps and bounds with a whopping 24,024,621 million ballots having already been counted. For comparison, 2014 only had 12,938,596 counted by this time, putting 2018 at nearly double. To be sure, both parties have been turned out in great number, but according to NBC, the Republicans are currently up with a two-point lead : As of Wednesday, 43% of early voters are Republican and 41% are Democrats. At this point in 2016, 43% of early voters were Democrats and 40% were Republicans. At this point in 2014, though, 44% were Republican and 40% were Democrats." • • • HERE IS THE OP-ED WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT TRUMP for Fox News on Monday : "For many Americans, the Great Recession brought dark days we will never forget – and never want to repeat. It wasn’t long ago that economists told us sluggish growth and flat wages were here to stay. Pundits talked about a 'jobless recovery.' And politicians promised hope and change but never delivered. But now, thanks to Republican leadership, the United States has the best economy in the history of our country -- and hope has finally returned to cities and towns across America. Since I was elected, we have created 4.5 million new jobs. In the last month alone, we added another 250,000 jobs, and nearly a half-million Americans returned to the workforce. We have added nearly 500,000 manufacturing jobs to our economy -- jobs that many self-proclaimed experts said would never return. The unemployment rate just fell to the lowest level in nearly 50 years. More Americans are working today than ever before. And wages are now rising at the fastest rate in a decade. Today, if you want a job, you can get a job. If you want a better job, you can get a better job. African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans have the best job prospects in history. The employment outlook for women is the best in more than 65 years. Students graduating from high school and college are entering the workforce with an abundance of opportunities. These things didn’t happen by accident. They happened because Republicans are putting American workers and families first. To reclaim America’s competitive edge, Republicans passed the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history. In addition to saving the average family $2,000 per year, our tax cuts kicked off a growth boom as businesses expanded and hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign profits flooded back into our country. By doubling the child tax credit, providing a $500 tax credit for non-child dependents, and lowering tax rates, Republicans delivered the tax relief that working families need and deserve. Republicans have waged the largest regulatory reduction campaign in our history -- eliminating unnecessary regulation after unnecessary regulation that killed jobs and drove businesses overseas. We have unleashed American energy resources. We ended ObamaCare’s punitive individual mandate and created new, affordable health-care options with lower premiums for families and businesses. And we are fixing broken trade deals and cracking down on foreign trading abuses that have, for decades, plundered America’s wealth. Democrats adamantly, aggressively and hysterically opposed every one of these policies. The top Democrat in Congress even predicted our tax cuts would lead to 'Armageddon.' But here we are, two years later, and America has never been more prosperous or more optimistic. Now America faces a critical choice : whether to build on the extraordinary prosperity that Republican policies have delivered for our nation -- or whether to allow Democrats to take control and take a giant wrecking ball to your economy and your future. If House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., take control of Congress, they will drag America back into the economic abyss we struggled so hard to climb out of. The Democrats have promised to raise taxes, restore job-killing regulations, restrict American energy production, and impose socialism through a government takeover of your health care that would bankrupt our country with a $32 trillion price tag. Put simply, the Democrats will pursue economic policies that are the exact opposite of the successful policies that Republicans have implemented. Democratic economic policies will drive our factories overseas, destroy the American health-care system, and obliterate American jobs, American wages and American wealth. We have already tried the Democratic way -- and it produced the worst so-called economic recovery on record. Why would we ever go back? Instead, I am asking you to vote for a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and Republican governors so we can continue the incredible economic success that families across the nation are now enjoying. America’s red-hot economy is the envy of the world, and it is only getting stronger every day. A strong jobs economy helps working Americans lift up the people they love : children, parents, friends, and neighbors. A strong jobs economy also means that our government can protect the American people with the strongest military in the world, protect Medicare and Social Security for our great seniors, protect Americans with pre-existing conditions, and protect our borders. With your vote for Republican candidates, we can keep our economy growing and our nation on the right track. With your vote, we will keep lifting millions of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence, and poverty to prosperity. And together, we will build a future of safety, security, prosperity, and freedom for all our citizens." __ Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. • • • DEAR READERS, who is peddling the Blue Wave scenario? Those who cannot believe they lost in 2016. Liz Peek wrote on Monday : "Win or lose, it wasn’t meant to be this way. Post-election, in 2016, Democrats were positive that Donald Trump would be squashed by a mutiny led by the left and bolstered by all right-minded Americans who would reject the president’s confrontational approach on immigration, education, the Paris Accord, the Iran nuclear deal, burdensome regulations, political correctness and what he calls the Fake News media. They expected a Blue Wave to roll over the country in the midterm elections, buoyed by voters who finally realized what a dumb mistake they’d made on November 8, 2016. So certain was this prediction that an astonishing 39 Republicans in the Senate and the House announced they would not run for reelection; eliminating those resigning to run for a different position, there are still three GOP Senators and 23 members of the House who have retired, 'the fifth-biggest exodus of any party in any election going back to 1974,' according to FiveThirtyEight. Though the reasons for those retirements vary, certainly several were scared they would lose, driven out of office by anti-Trump fervor." BUT, says Peek : "Though visions of a Blue Wave still dance in Nancy Pelosi’s head, President Trump is upending expectations by attracting huge crowds as he stumps for candidates across the country and moving the needle in scores of close races. Candidates who might once have eschewed his support have scrambled aboard the Trump Train, eager to align with a President winning almost unprecedented support within his own party." WHY? For Liz Peek, this is the answer : "First, Democrats still fail to understand Trump’s appeal and are therefore ill-equipped to dent it. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Frank Bruni quoted former Obama adviser David Axelrod cautioning that Democrats cannot make 'the careless presumption that everyone who voted for Trump is a toothless, ignorant racist...if they’re shunned and belittled for having supported him in the first place, they will just be further driven into his column.' That is exactly what has happened. As the liberal media relentlessly hammers President Trump (and, by association, people who voted for him) for being a racist because he opposes illegal immigration, or being a climate ignoramus because he ditches the lop-sided Paris Accord, or being anti-female because he sticks with Brett Kavanaugh, his supporters only become more convinced that they made the right choice. Axelrod is no dummy. In Bruni’s piece, he is also quoted as saying that 'voters disgusted by the paralysis on Capitol Hill viewed Trump as the kick in the ass that Washington needed.' He is right....President Trump will not fix all our problems, but he has a better shot than most, because he approaches the country’s and the world’s problems with an untutored eye. He does not have rafts of experts telling him what to think: he has common sense....Common sense suggests that our NATO allies should shoulder their fair share of the developed world’s defense burden....that we should withhold foreign aid from countries that openly despise us and align with our enemies....that we welcome people who enter the country legally and close our borders to those who do not....that if our public education system is failing generations of low-income minority children who need it most, we should give alternative solutions a chance....that providing health care insurance that is so expensive that it cannot be used is as bad as providing no insurance at all." • President Trump has rewarded voters by producing a gangbusters economy. Democrats cannot deny that the GOP tax cuts coupled with a pro-business White House have lifted confidence, hiring and wages. Americans of all races and ages are better off than they were, and most credit President Trump with their improved outlook. AND, President Trump has encouraged conservative voters by putting Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court and appointing scores of right- leaning judges to lower federal courts. Democrats cannot deny the logic and wisdom of many of Trump’s policies, and they have no policy agenda of their own, so they call him a liar and take to street violence. A Blue Wave? Not likely. • As Michael Goodwin told Fox News : "A survey found that 64% think the media is dividing the country, with just 17% crediting the press with uniting America. But, studies show consistently that 90% of news coverage of Trump is negative. In effect, the media’s onslaught has damaged Trump, but also their own credibility and helped to polarize America." • The United States has reached a dangerous stalemate, with allegiances split down the middle. Warning signs are flashing. We ignore them at our peril as a nation. I believe Republicans and President Trump will win the Mid-terms. Americans -- as we did at Bunker Hill and on the beaches of Normandy -- will stand up on Tuesday for our borders, for our right to decent jobs and wages, for American brotherhood shattered by the Democrats and Obama, and for our shared values of freedom and respect for one another that our Republic has always fought to preserve. And, now we wait.